Tornado Town

Crystal and I went to downtown Atlanta to be tornado tourists on Monday. It was fascinating to see the high rise damage. The restaurant we ate at was right in the path of the tornado and according to the greeter they didn't close at all since the tornado.

Above you can see the CNN building and the Omni Hotel. You can see all the windows out in the CNN building but it is harder to distinguish the damage on the Omni hotel. The Olympic pillars in the foreground were damaged in the tornado. If you look toward the back of the plaza you can see a replica of the torch from the Olympics. The pillar in the foreground had a similar replica before the tornado!
Here is a close up shot of the CNN building. You can see a few of the windows that are broken out and have not yet been boarded up.

Here are a couple of the high rises damaged. It kind of looks like a mouth with teeth knocked out.

The was taken right outside of the restaurant we ate at. You can see the building across the street with its windows boarded up and the tall cylindrical high rise in the back ground which has a lot of windows out.

This was the most "tornado" like damage that we saw. The white building was an unused building, the brick building in the middle ground is a club of some sort and then again the high rise in the background.

I can't remember what this building is but I thought that it was an amazing demonstration of the damage up close as so many of its windows were damaged.