Tornadoes tore through downtown and a few surrounding neighborhoods here in Atlanta last night. My experience with it was just of some hail falling at my house with heavy rain, a cancelled trip to the bar, and not much else so far. Apparently my office, the CNN Center, was heavily damaged, but when I checked my work email just a few minutes ago, I was told that we would be back open for business on Monday. I hope all of the news will just hold off until then. If you were planning to do something newsworthy, please wait.
The upside of this is that the electricity at my house did not even blink during the storm. This in a neighborhood where the whole power grid will often fail when just one neighbor adjusts his or her thermostat in the summer. Not even a flicker during this storm and it was one of the worst I have seen in the 4 years I have lived here.
And now, since it is an election year, we have to find someone to blame for the storm, and I am pointing our finger at the Georgia Governor, Sonny Perdue. If you do not recall, back in November the governor held a prayer vigil on the steps of the capitol to pray for relief from the drought that is going on in Georgia.
A few days later, lo and behold, it rained. My friends joked that of course Sonny had consulted with weather.com before deciding when to plan his vigil so that he could increase the likelihood of his "rayers" being answered. It all seemed a fluke.
But wait a few months, it seems as if his prayers have been answered now. Just a few months later. God works in mysterious ways. At the governor's behest, He has been sending us enough water in a 48 hour period to singlehandedly cut the drought damage in half. In the process, it took part of the roof of the Georgia Dome, the World Congress Center, windows at the CNN Center, and 20 houses in the Cabbagetown neighborhood.
Thanks Sonny! Be a little more careful with the state-sponsored prayers in the future.
