Tornado Hits Downtown Atlanta

Last night Art and I were out at a club to listen to local band play. This particular club has Televisions on different channels. I happened to look over at the TV that was tuned to Fox News and at the bottom of the screen says possible Tornado hits downtown Atlanta. My first thought was wait I had been home most of the day and had thought that I had missed news from earlier in the day. My second thought was I hope that my sister, Niece and brother in law were okay since they live just north of where the Tornado hit. It was not until we got home around 11:00 or 11:30 that I found out that the Tornado had hit about 9:30 pm. One of the other Televisions had the Alabama and Mississippi State game on which was in overtime and being played in the Georgia Dome which sustained some damage. We were hanging out with some old classmates of his. Some Butler grads decided that it would be kind of cool to go to this bar and listen to a local band. The band was pretty good they play 80's music. My favorite next to Country. While I am typing this I had tuned to CNN to see if I could get any information about the Tornado. They said that the storm had been rotating over Rome Georgia which is well North of where the Tornado actually hit. As of this typing I still have not heard from My sister or parents. I figured that if something were wrong I would have heard by now.

Bad Weather

Well yesterday we were forecast to have some pretty rough weather. We lucked out and the worst of it stayed to the south of us.
I was telling my husband that there was a particularly interesting debate going on in the forums of my local newspaper online. Anyway, the debate was regarding sending the kids home early. Where do you stand on sending the kids home early for bad weather? Last spring a high school got hit by a tornado south of where I live. 8 kids were killed in the High school because school officials opted to not send kids home. Here in the northern part of the state our schools let out early on that same day the tornado hit Enterprise Alabama.
I for one am glad that the schools here are cautious about sending kids home if the weather is going to turn bad. I know I do not have kids but, if I did I would want them to be safe and not in a school during bad weather. My husband and I were talking about this being something new sending the kids home early. When we were in school they did not send us home we had to sit in the hallways with head between legs and wait for the all clear to go back to class.