Rebuilding

From ajc:

While Atlanta police kept some downtown streets closed, MARTA reopened two entrances to the Peachtree Center rail station Thursday afternoon —- enough to get the station up and running.

No injuries have been reported in the days after the main storm knifed through Atlanta.

In addition to closings for safety reasons, some side streets were being closed intermittently to allow crews to work, the city said.

In Cabbagetown, Boulevard will be closed between Memorial Drive and Gartrell Street for the next few weeks while the walls of the Cotton Mill Lofts are made safe.



Day 8 and John Edwards is still nowhere to be found.

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Puppy Found. Edwards Still Missing.

A puppy feared missing after the tornado ripped through the Fulton Cotton Mill lofts has been found:

P.J. Bullock barely survived Friday night's tornado. He feared his dog, Jackson, wasn't so lucky.

Sunday afternoon, he and a friend returned to the Cotton Mill Lofts in Cabbagetown to look one last time for his 3-month-old mixed breed German shepherd. He was able to persuade a firefighter to check the apartment where the puppy was last seen.

They found him underneath a couch," said Bullock, who was having dinner in a top-floor loft on the Boulevard side of Building E when the tornado struck

The dog apparently had scampered underneath the furniture just as one of the apartment's walls was collapsing. That's where he was discovered Sunday, safely ensconced amid the rubble.

"Jackson was OK ... completely healthy," said Bullock, who likewise escaped the storm "without a scratch."


No thanks to John Edwards.

Douchebag.

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We're All Milltards Now

From the ajc:

"It was one of those things where you don't know if you're going to make it out or not," Bullock. When asked how he was feeling," Bullock replied, "I don't know. ... I don't have a scratch on me."

Capt. Stephen Hill of Georgia Search and Rescue confirmed that the floors in Building E had collapsed. He said the roofs on four buildings in the complex had been partially or completely torn off by the storm.

Hill and other fire department officials said they had not found anyone seriously injured from the storm. A firefighter suffered an ankle injury. A man was taken to Atlanta Medical Center with a large gash to his head.

Nanziri Clark, who celebrated her first anniversary as a resident of the complex today, said the injured man was her 51-year-old neighbor in Building H.

Clark said she found the man lying in his doorway trapped under rubble as she fled from her own unit.

"His whole face was red [with blood]," said Clark, who waited with him until paramedics came. Clark said the man was conscious and seemed to be in good spirits when he was taken away.

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Devastation

Tornadoes have ripped through my hometown. Many residences were devastated. You've seen the pictures.

The images that hit closest to home (atleast to me) are the ones in this thread. These are from Cabbagetown; more specifically the Fulton Cotton Mill lofts. The lofts are rich with history. Truly stunning architecture:









Story via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Photos via Allen Sullivan & Hyosub Shin of AJC