Atlanta tornado discussion

[Justin Montois]

This is a crazy Video, I've walked where he is walking many times, though when I walk through it there's not 7 inches of water....
Good thing Championship isn't like next week.

I feel terrible for the people affected by this storm. I hope everything turns out as good as it can for this type of disaster.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MZnlpb...eature=related

[Jeff Pahl]

Weather Channel is showing possible baseball size hail in the same area in downtown Atlanta again. A tornado warning was just issued for the area of the Peachtree Regional.

And apparently the weather has crashed the scoring computer at the regional, resulting in about a 3 hour delay and they are scoring the elim matches manually.

[bduddy]

There was an announcement about this at SVR, and I suspect at other regionals as well because they said it came from FIRST HQ. Basically, they said there had been a tornado and that FIRST was monitoring the situation, blah blah blah. The damage wasn't even severe enough to stop the NCAA game (only delay it), so I can't imagine it'll affect the Championships, but...

[Coredesat]

Originally Posted by bduddy

There was an announcement about this at SVR, and I suspect at other regionals as well because they said it came from FIRST HQ. Basically, they said there had been a tornado and that FIRST was monitoring the situation, blah blah blah. The damage wasn't even severe enough to stop the NCAA game (only delay it), so I can't imagine it'll affect the Championships, but...

Actually, the damage was fairly bad, and that game should have been stopped. The only reason it was continued was because the SEC is under a time constraint to get its tournament finished before the NCAA announces its selections for the tournament - the remaining games were moved to a different location as the NCAA deemed the Georgia Dome unsafe. Just outside the Georgia Dome there was quite a bit of damage, and there have been numerous reports of baseball-size hail in the area today.

[swaknight]

I hope that they have a plan b because this may not end pretty. The georgia dome was hit hard, the fact that there was a tornado in a downtown area should say something.

[dangerousdave]

Originally Posted by Jeff Pahl

Weather Channel is showing possible baseball size hail in the same area in downtown Atlanta again. A tornado warning was just issued for the area of the Peachtree Regional.

And apparently the weather has crashed the scoring computer at the regional, resulting in about a 3 hour delay and they are scoring the elim matches manually.

Having just returned home to suburban Atlanta from the Peachtree Regional, I think there were other reasons that the scoring system crashed but that is only a guess. This resulted in about a 3 hour delay as Jeff said. The elimination matches were scored manually. Once everything got started the volunteer staff did a fantastic job!

One of the many volunteers, Ryan Stewart, did a great job announcing the time left for every elimination match at 15 second intervals, including counting down from 15 to 0 seconds in each match. He will need to rest his voice over the next few days along with the team announcer, Troy.

It was also kind of funny when the final few matches were being scored. The final score and penalties were being manually typed in. Team members were trying to sneak a peak at the score on the small LCD screen prior to it being posted on the big screen. The staff held up a large black piece of fabric in front of the scoring table to keep prying eyes away.

Each match was started with a checkered flag being waved.

There apparently was very bad weather including hail passing by the competition but most of us didn't notice it. It was nice outside after the awards were announced.
Dave