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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 315379" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>Everything is fine here today. I'm getting ready to go out in the yard and clean it up a little. My roof wasn't torn off or anything, its just that I built this house about 23 years ago and its time for a new one! I have one subdivision on my delivery area where all the roofs got replaced for free by the homeowner's insurance from hail damage. I don't know if I actually have any damage to mine from yesterday.</p><p></p><p>I live on the west side of Atlanta, and have I-20 behind my house. This is called "Tornado Alley" sometimes, because the storms go from the west to the east. I had one about 15 years ago that was a near miss, we were woke up in the middle of the night and went down to the basement for safety. The top floor of my house started swaying, and the windows started creaking from the pressure. That storm tore off the tops of a dozen pine trees on my property.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday, the tornado warning sirens went off twice. The 4PM tornado went close by, it didn't touch the ground until about five mile east of here. I heard that "freight train" sound that everybody says they sound like. This is the one with all the hail, we took shelter in the basement again and watched two inch hailstones bouncing off our cars. I was amazed it didn't bust the glass out of them. It left about 30-40 small dents on the top of the new Ford Escape, we will definitely ask Allstate to fix it. My Chevy P/U is a 2002, its paid off and the dents aren't so bad.</p><p></p><p>It was just strange for a large city like Atlanta to get hit twice in about 24 hours. Most of the major damage was on the west side where the larger structures like the Georgia Dome and the tall buildings around there took most of the force. When we drove through Atlanta late afternoon Saturday, the wind damage went all the way through Downtown Atlanta. The area around the State Capitol and Grady Hospital had wind damage too. It was mostly billboards, traffic signs, and trees down there. Like I said, it was a miracle more people weren't hurt. If this had happened during the week when downtown was full of workers, it would have been a different story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 315379, member: 1674"] Everything is fine here today. I'm getting ready to go out in the yard and clean it up a little. My roof wasn't torn off or anything, its just that I built this house about 23 years ago and its time for a new one! I have one subdivision on my delivery area where all the roofs got replaced for free by the homeowner's insurance from hail damage. I don't know if I actually have any damage to mine from yesterday. I live on the west side of Atlanta, and have I-20 behind my house. This is called "Tornado Alley" sometimes, because the storms go from the west to the east. I had one about 15 years ago that was a near miss, we were woke up in the middle of the night and went down to the basement for safety. The top floor of my house started swaying, and the windows started creaking from the pressure. That storm tore off the tops of a dozen pine trees on my property. Yesterday, the tornado warning sirens went off twice. The 4PM tornado went close by, it didn't touch the ground until about five mile east of here. I heard that "freight train" sound that everybody says they sound like. This is the one with all the hail, we took shelter in the basement again and watched two inch hailstones bouncing off our cars. I was amazed it didn't bust the glass out of them. It left about 30-40 small dents on the top of the new Ford Escape, we will definitely ask Allstate to fix it. My Chevy P/U is a 2002, its paid off and the dents aren't so bad. It was just strange for a large city like Atlanta to get hit twice in about 24 hours. Most of the major damage was on the west side where the larger structures like the Georgia Dome and the tall buildings around there took most of the force. When we drove through Atlanta late afternoon Saturday, the wind damage went all the way through Downtown Atlanta. The area around the State Capitol and Grady Hospital had wind damage too. It was mostly billboards, traffic signs, and trees down there. Like I said, it was a miracle more people weren't hurt. If this had happened during the week when downtown was full of workers, it would have been a different story. [/QUOTE]
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