ATL GCers, are you all okay?

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Pardon the crash....

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

^^^^ terrifying and totally unexpected

As Fox News said, this definitely debunks the urban legend that tornados don't hit downtown areas with high rise buildings.

Both downtown Fort Worth and downtown Nashville have had tornados hit in the past 10 or so years. The Fort Worth one was pretty bad... one entire skyscraper (30 or so stories, can't remember exactly) was ruined and no longer inhabitable. Hundreds of cars were just pancaked on top of each other thoughout the downtown parking lots.

Fortunately it hit in the early evening, so the 9 to 5ers had gone home. A very close friend of mine was in his downtown office building at the time and said that it was scary as hell.

Don't know how or why the downtown myth started. It might just be pure math... if you consider the total square miles of "Tornado Alley" and compare it to the total square miles of the downtown areas in that same area... well, math will win most of the time- just not all of the time.

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Originally Posted by Blondie93

Pardon the crash....



Both downtown Fort Worth and downtown Nashville have had tornados hit in the past 10 or so years. The Fort Worth one was pretty bad... one entire skyscraper (30 or so stories, can't remember exactly) was ruined and no longer inhabitable. Hundreds of cars were just pancaked on top of each other thoughout the downtown parking lots.

Fortunately it hit in the early evening, so the 9 to 5ers had gone home. A very close friend of mine was in his downtown office building at the time and said that it was scary as hell.

Don't know how or why the downtown myth started. It might just be pure math... if you consider the total square miles of "Tornado Alley" and compare it to the total square miles of the downtown areas in that same area... well, math will win most of the time- just not all of the time.

No crash.

Yeah my friends said they don't know why that urban legend exists because they know of high rise areas that have been hit. I think it's about probability and math, like you said. People hear about tornadoes mostly NOT hitting high rise areas so they think that means something.

Unfortunately there is one fatality of the ATL tornado.