Georgia Dome hit by tornado?

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I was in grad school in Atlanta when the roof was being stretched on the frame, piece by piece back in 1991.

I'm no engineering expert, but even back then I wondered how long before something weird would happen to the roof.

 

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Georgia Dome's two words, Inky.

Keep the updates coming, y'all. We don't get any TV on this out here, and I can't find anything on the Web.

Be safe, HP.

 

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Tim Brando and the Raycom people are doing a hellacious job with this.

Negative, IJAG, it's only on Raycom's regional SEC broadcast.

 

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Hey hammer-

Did Brando just show your washer off on JP sports?

 

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Whoa, someone's wife is hot.

 

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Sitting less than two miles away, I went on my enclosed front patio during the worst of it.
I didn't see or hear anything that resembled a tornado, but the rain and wind was so bad I couldn't see the house across the street.

Apparently the Hawks game right next door to the Georgia Dome was never stopped.

 

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Which is fucking idiocy on the part of the conference, but that's for a whole 'nother time.

Just as a note, if you see Kentucky fans fleeing an active basketball game, you know bad shit is going down.

 

They replayed when it happened and you could see stuff falling from the roof, a loud sound and a standard swaying back and forth. People were looking up and looked pretty freightened.

 

I'm 100 miles from an SEC city...I guess that's too far for Raycom.

Shame.

 

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No kidding. Glad no one is injured.
It is a Raycom/Jefferson Pilot/Lincoln Financial broadcast.
Good luck finding it, this might help though

http://www.raycommedia.com/

 

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Hammer's right.

You could see a ripple on the roof panels as the wind blew past.

The catwalks were shaking hard, like almost earthquake hard, and swayed for quite a while. It takes something hellacious to get a catwalk to shake that hard and sway that long. I'm sure it'll lead off SportsCenter tonight.

BTW-Gottfried's wife has a nice rack.

 

They said the game should resume in 10-20 minutes, but damn, the hoops-only jumbroton they hang in the corner was swinging around. It did sound like a train.

Yes, that was our washer that Brando put on TV.