Too much happened Monday to save for a weekly Twitter digest. It all started fairly normal and routine...
9:41 AM:
Monday: no camps this week (2@home) & 14yo son coming home from month away Weds! Planning 2 July (4th&18th) bdays & family vacation-beach?!
9:45 AM:
Dog grooming: rec from lady walking her dog at Piedmont Park this am (nice haircut!)(on dog): Canine Showcase@Ansley. Mutt cut, what we need
And then I got a phone call from hubby at work:
11:52 AM:
ATLANTA parking deck collapse at 5th & Spring...looking for news. Hubby is fine - that's his building at Georgia Tech/Tech Square - ATDC.
12:40 PM:
Collapsed deck at 5th & Spring - middle section fell in. Rumor is car hit a support beam--
twitter pic from hubby
1:28 PM:
ATLANTA - Best coverage so far of partial parking deck collapse at 5th & Spring w/pics:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19892813/detail.html
[The story has been updated, as of Tuesday PM, with subsequent developments. In the early stages, they had the best first pictures of the parking deck from the outside, which didn't look like much, but you could see the pile-up of smashed cars sticking out of the bottom level.]
1:43 PM [unrelated, but of interest when I was searching news sources on Twitter!]:
ATLANTA - RT @11AliveNews Looking For Something To Do This Fourth of July Weekend?
http://tinyurl.com/lkhy9z - See you at Centennial Park!
1:56 PM:
ATLANTA - 2pm: No injuries. Nice: "Employees from Cheetah are handing out water and fruit to emergency crews, according to witnesses."
Previous tweet source:
http://bit.ly/TbzHv
2:00 PM:
Ya'll know the Cheetah is infamous strip joint-directly across from partially collapsed parking deck. Glad they're taking care of the boys...
8:35 PM Jun 29th from Twitterrific in reply to mustangmelatl:
@mustangmelatl parking deck all closed up for days, with everybody's cars still in it, crushed or not! Our office:1 crushed; 5 stuck; 3 walk
Quite an eventful day in the ATL! Fortunately, happy to see reports today: NO deaths or injuries, property damage only (and plenty of it). This is the parking deck attached by a walkway to (not underneath) my husband's office building at 5th & Spring in Midtown Atlanta. He had just returned from an offsite meeting and literally
moments before (I know: DRAMA, but true!), walked out of the parking deck before the section collapsed.
Our car was not smashed or trapped in the mess - he walks to/from work or I chauffeur him the two miles to the office, as we only have one car, the previously mentioned crappy 2006 Jeep Commander that we would trade for a Chevy Tahoe in a heartbeat - you know, IF we could find a new car dealer to actually sell a new car right now: Chevy? Toyota? Come to think about it, if our crappy Jeep had been smashed in the collapse...damnit!
It will be a mess down there for quite some time, as they remove cars and analyze what happened, hopefully to rebuild the parking deck - safer, stronger, better! Parking and traffic in Midtown Atlanta off the 10th Street Exit is now worse.than.ever.