Tornados, Hoops, And A Medal, Too!

As most of you know, Atlanta had a doozy of a storm on Friday night, and it continued into Saturday. The SEC basketball tournament was going on in the Georgia Dome downtown, which is right next to the CNN Center and Centennial Olympic Park, where many of the Olympic activities took place in 1996. A tornado hit the Dome, Philips Arena (where a Hawks game was also taking place), CNN, and other buildings -- the first recorded tornado in downtown Atlanta ever! Roofs were torn off, windows knocked out, and street lamps uprooted -- a real mess.

The rain and tornados continued on Saturday, but fortunately we were in a band of non-tornados. There were storm lines both north and south of where we live -- in fact, they called it a "train line," because on radar it literally looks like a series of storms all lined up. Austin and MacKenzie were both schedule to have soccer games, and these were cancelled. We dropped Austin at the middle school to attend a track meet, but he called an hour later, and that had also been cancelled.

Denis and I went in search of bathroom ideas, with plans to gut and renovate the master bath, which as noted in past blogs, drips into the kitchen from time to time. Great success in the search, so perhaps the tornado and related cancellations had some benefit for us... We then spent time flipping back and forth between basketball and the weather reports, relieved that it wasn't taking place on our street.

While the rest of us were watching the weather reports on Menlo Way Saturday, David was running a track meet. He promised me that he'd call to let me know what time he was running, and I kept checking my phone for text messages. When he came home around 6 pm, he was wearing a 2nd place medal over his left ear (as only David can do!). He came in 2nd in the 2 mile race -- congrats!