Photo Essay: Severe Weather Tears Through Georgia Dome
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NaviGATR posted 3/15/2008 from www.sportingnews.com [flag] |
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tziller +2Amazing work in a (surely) frightening time. My ass wouldn't have stuck around to take pictures.
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Tornado hits Atlanta, Georgia Dome during SEC Tournament
Published 3/15/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... apparently occurring in other areas around Atlanta. The Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts apartment building has collapsed due to the storm, and rescue efforts are underway, though officials say it could take the whole weekend to get throguh the building. Hopefully everyone somehow makes it out okay. Atlanta-based CNN has full coverage (their headquarters also sustained damage).
Spencer Hall of the Sporting News was there at the Georgia Dome and has some pretty amazing pictures from the aftermath.
The rest of the Bama/Mississippi State ...
Spencer Hall Blogs From Inside a Tornado
Published 3/15/2008 by Chris Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... see the news last night, certainly you woke up to it this morning: A tornado ripped through Atlanta last night during the SEC Tournament. Well, my colleague over at The Sporting Blog, Spencer Hall aka Orson Swindle, might just win the Pulitzer Price for Sports Blogging in Extreme Conditions. He was in the Georgia Dome covering the tourney for TSB when the tornado came through.
Spencer managed to write three posts about the madness throughout the night, including a photo essay of the area, which included this gem:
Indeed, the whole thing ...
Weekend links with Jon Marthaler
Published 3/15/2008 by Michael Rand at Randball
... at the Metrodome — is made of Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric, which may be strong but isn’t strong enough to hold up to a tornado. Several holes were ripped into the roof, and some debris — washers, bolts, etc. — fell from the ceiling as scoreboards and light fixtures swayed back and forth. My favorite non-Randball internet writer, Spencer Hall, happened to be on the scene. Here are his reports, with photographic evidence where necessary: 10:29 pm, 12:07 am, and 2:20 am. Here’s the breaking-news video from ESPN, as well. ...
Tornadoes Don't Enjoy SEC Basketball [Cow... Cow...]
Published 3/15/2008 by Sussman at Deadspin
... While this was not the first time a blogger filed stories with soiled trousers, it was likely one of the first times done admirably so. And he also snapped photos of the surrounding damage, notably from the adjacent Georgia World Congress Center. ...
WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THE SIGN
Published 3/15/2008 at With Leather
... In other college hoops news, the SEC tourney is all sorts of fucked because a tornado with Sherman's attitude gave the Georgia Dome the what-for. The Sporting Blog's Spencer Hall has several excellent first-hand reports from the scene, including this photo essay and a ...
The Georgia Dome was a rockin' last night
Published 3/15/2008 by DCScrap at on 205th magazine: Stuff Guys Like. [Pop Culture For Men]
... This means Kentucky could have to play three games in 27 hours to get the SEC title done and tidy before the NCAA Tournament Selection Show rolls out the bracket Sunday night. Now here comes the even more odd part, the SEC is only going to let the players' families and media into Georgia Tech's arena. We're sure there will be plenty of video forthcoming in the days to come of all the Kentucky fans protesting and raising hell about not getting to see THEIR 'CATS play. UPDATE : Here is a photo essay of last night's events by someone who was there. H/T: ...
That There Is The Result Of Some SEC Wind Speed
Published 3/15/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... Orson Swindle was at the Georgia Dome when Mother Nature decided that having a Crimson Tide in Atlanta was not enough and thus decided to create another form of disaster of her own during the SEC tournament. It is all chronicled in a series of posts over at the Sporting Blog — and Orson left us a video at EDSBS of one particular instance at the Georgia World Congress Center.
I’m so totally surfing the indoor waterfall.
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Video: Tornado Interrupts SEC Tournament
Published 3/15/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... Also worth checking out today is an excellent photo essay from The Sporting Blog’s Spencer Hall, who was in attendance last night at the Georgia Dome and snapped a few pictures of the devastation. His pictures offer a great idea of the sheer extent of the damage this storm caused. ...
This Week in Bloggernets: Clay gets a girlfriend, Schilling weighs in on Doug and more
Published 3/16/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... ) -- Scary stuff indeed: A tornado hits the area where thousands of fans are watching the SEC men's basketball final. Crazy photos, here. ( The Sporting Blog ) -- Count me among those who were amused by Tony Massarotti's column on the knuckleball this week. Very Rick Reilly-esque, really. ( ...
Cram Session: Mario Chalmers, Georgia, and Illinois
Published 3/17/2008 at The Dagger
... Honorable mention: Georgia. Georgia beat not only the
Southeastern Conference's best, but some totally unbelievable and
dangerous weather. And for that, honorable mention. That makes it
totally worth it, I bet. ...
