Hope everyone in the Atlanta and surrounding areas are safe and dry.

[groundloop]

9. The worst damage was very close to me (Paulding County)

The Paulding airport was leveled, an elementary school near that sustained heavy damage, several (I haven't heard how many but saw a few) houses were damaged to the point that they'll have to be torn down, and many many more sustained heavy damage. We know 2 people whose houses were damaged. Some of the worst damage was only a block from the school my wife works at. In my estimation it looked like the tornado was about a half mile wide when it came through, we heard on the news that it was an EF-3 when it came through here, and I believe I heard it was on the ground for somewhere around 40 miles.