ah… you have to love the calming and reassuring tone of our national weather alerts. it almost makes you wish they just had a rainbow scale instead.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… NORTHERN COBB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 200 PM EDT.
AT 109 PM EDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH LOCATED OVER ACWORTH…MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE…ACWORTH…ALPHARETTA…FAIR OAKS…KENNESAW…MARIETTA AND ROSWELL.
WEAK SHORT LIVED TORNADOES CAN SOMETIMES DEVELOP ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER… THE MAIN THREAT IS DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. WINDS MAY KNOCKDOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED.
TAKE COVER NOW!
update 3:14 PM - and so we did. shortly after 2pm, a disembodied corporate voice came over the intercom to tell us the tale of a tornado warning. we were to step away from the windows and into an interior hall or stairwell. if there is anything you don’t have to tell corporati twice… of course, we all dropped whatever we were doing and meandered into the stairwell and down, down, down into the basement. yeah, at least two people made the “wonder if freddy kreuger lives down here” comment, and both thought they were terribly funny. we weren’t stuck in the depths for long. i don’t know how much longer i could’ve stayed anyway. there’s something in those unused halls that just does not like my eyes and nose, making me all squinty now and feeling like i have a cold.
back at my desk, the thunder is still rumbling out there and in just over an hour i get to negotiate my way back home…
