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#1 Postby Courtnay Mccullers » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:49 am

anyone seeing this tornado damage in Helen, GA?

then the meterologist on CNN says "I think it was straight line winds"

*rolls eyes*

what else would it have been but a tornado in Georgia?
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#2 Postby no advance » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:50 am

I saw that too. Also saw 1000s of dead chickens.
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#3 Postby ohiostorm » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:51 am

There were very strong storms going through there. Could have been straight line winds. Who knows till the NWS looks at it.
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#4 Postby scostorms » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:51 am

He said he didn't know! Calm down, some of the damage looks like tornado possibly, some like straight line winds. Geez, quick to assumptions you are.
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#5 Postby Courtnay Mccullers » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:53 am

ohiostorm wrote:There were very strong storms going through there. Could have been straight line winds. Who knows till the NWS looks at it.


straight line winds would have had to be on the order of 130-160+ mph to cause the damage. on top of that, some buildings were untouched, while others were decimated.
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#6 Postby Brent » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:14 am

It was defintely a tornado... the winds in Georgia from the squalls were no more than 40-50 mph...

I heard 200,000!(someone please tell me that's a mistake) chickens killed... :eek:
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#7 Postby aumoore » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:38 am

Brent wrote:It was defintely a tornado... the winds in Georgia from the squalls were no more than 40-50 mph...

I heard 200,000!(someone please tell me that's a mistake) chickens killed... :eek:


Yes there can be hundreds of thousands of chickens in one chicken house.

KFC might have to serve burgers for a while in Georgia.
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