By the Grace of The Great Spirit- 2 Atlanta arenas- filled with fans watching basketball games- were spared a major disaster.
No thanks to those events' officials- mind you.
The NWS in Atlanta issued a tornado warning 5-10 minutes prior to the strike.
Yet- according to numerous interviews of fans attending the Atlanta Hawks NBA game in Philips Arena and the college SEC region championships in the Georgia Dome down the street report NO WARNINGS WERE BROADCAST over the 2 facilities' public address systems.
It was only when damage was being done to the 2 arenas that people started "to panic and (started) running out" from their seats- according to several witness interviews. There has yet been no reports of people injured in the "stampede" to exit the arenas.
Wouldn't it be better to notify the crowd of a warning- and allow people to CALMLY seek safer areas- than say nothing and have what happened in Atlanta occur?
This sort of thing goes on at many venues in America during severe weather. I've been at events where warnings were issued- but not broadcast to the event's crowd. Maybe a few fatalities and/or attorneys' lawsuits will change things.
Also- CNN's headquarters were struck and damaged- but it took CNN more than 30 minutes to get any live pictures on the air.
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