Dorothy? Toto?

So, umm, two tornadoes hit downtown Atlanta this weekend. The emergency sirens went off by our house Friday night and we got a lot of rain, but the storm didn't seem all that bad. However, downtown, four miles north of EP, the shit was spinning out of control.

I drove through East Atlanta Village yesterday (where Mary's is), before the second tornado, and it was crazy. Most of the businesses were closed because the power was out in the area, and there were trees down everywhere (some BIG ass trees). When Chad heard that there was a second tornado heading our way, he called my cell phone and insisted that I return to the homestead (it was kind of sexy). When I got there he had the dogs packed up and ready to go to the basement (it was kind of cute). I suggested that we listen to the news for a while before going to sit in the crawlspace/basement. Gurl, it's a dirt floor down there. Please! Thank Gawd we never had to go down there.

Downtown was crazy too. You can see all the missing window/boarded up windows in some of the tall glass buildings and a few of the big billboards were torn in half. The pics above are from the tornado on Friday night. Nobody died Friday. The second tornado hit on Saturday around 4pm and unfortunately killed two people in their home about 20-30 minutes West of the city.