Georgia Dome hit by tornado?

[Inky_Wretch]

Odd stuff happening at the SEC Tournament right now.

Game stopped, debris floating down from the ceiling.

 

[JayFarrar]

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I blame Mississippi State.
Not watching. McClaughlin Group is on.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

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Announcers are using the old "sounded like a freight train" line.

 

[westcoastvol]

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Yeah, wtf has happened?

Craaaaaaazy.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

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Raycom showing damage to the "skin" of the dome. There's now a hole all the way through one section, with wind blowing through it.

 

[imjustagirl]

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I can't find CBS here.

 

[dixiehack]

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Big rip in a side panel in the half of the dome away from the court. Catwalks are still swaying from side to side, nearly five minutes later.

More proof that the world will end before this Bama team wins any kind of title.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

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This is incredible....

 

[dixiehack]

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Fulton County under tornado warning for 10 more minutes.

 

[JayFarrar]

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I blame Atlanta and its terrifying airport.
See Jones's thread on looking for a new hometown to understand...

 

[Hammer Pants]

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We're all OK in here, I think. The roof and the supports were shaking pretty badly, and a washer fell from the roof like a missile and hit our press table.

Scary ****, though.

 

[imjustagirl]

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I blame Atlanta and its terrifying airport.
See Jones's thread on looking for a new hometown to understand...

I heart you.

Is this thing on national broadcast? I can't for the life of me find it.



EDIT: Glad you're OK, HP.

 

[westcoastvol]

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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.

 

[buckweaver]

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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.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

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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.

 

[westcoastvol]

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Hey hammer-

Did Brando just show your washer off on JP sports?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

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Whoa, someone's wife is hot.

 

[Bullrog]

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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.

 

[dixiehack]

Re: GeorgiaDome hit by tornado?

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

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

Which is ****ing 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 **** is going down.

 

[ondeadline]

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.