So last night was crazy. In case you haven't heard, a tornado hit downtown Atlanta. It devastated some residential areas and ripped a hole in the roof of the Georgia Dome.The AJC has pictures here, here, here, and here. Andisheh from Creative Loafing has some pics as well.

Rusty has a roundup of blog coverage of the storm, including video from Grayson reporting at the CNN Center.

I was fortunate. No power outages, despite the tornado warning that we were under. I took a short drive this morning and saw a few trees down. I know the major part of the system hit about five miles to the north of us. I woke up this morning and had about ten severe weather alerts in my inbox. And I read that there are more storms on the way.

I hope everyone is ok out there.

[UPDATE] We got hit hard today. No damage though. I was on the phone with Larry when Amanda said, "Jason!!! What the hell is that sound?!" We thought we were about to get hit by a tornado. It was golf ball sized hail and a lot of wind and rain.

There are a lot of families that may need help. I encourage you, as I will be doing, to find a local charity and see what you can do to help any one in need.

[6:10pm] More pics from the AP via Yahoo.