Storm photos from Macon, GA.

HarmlessDove · Postby **HarmlessDove** » May 13th, 2008, 4:18 am

dawgs10 · Postby **dawgs10** » May 13th, 2008, 11:17 am

was there any damage to the campground?

HarmlessDove · Postby **HarmlessDove** » May 14th, 2008, 3:25 am

dawgs10 wrote:was there any damage to the campground?

which campground?

MrDanger · Postby **MrDanger** » May 14th, 2008, 4:13 am

He's assuming you are COGOP and is wanting to know about the COGOP campground in Lizella, GA

TW · Postby TW » May 14th, 2008, 4:32 am

The pictures are amazing. The one that I love is the last one. Devastation all around it, and that truck is sitting there up on a lift like nothing happened. Tornados can do some strange things.

TW

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » May 14th, 2008, 5:03 am

I wonder if it pulled the bed off that truck? I just really noticed that and thought hmmmmm. :-k

TW · Postby TW » May 14th, 2008, 6:45 am

Full Quiver wrote:I wonder if it pulled the bed off that truck? I just really noticed that and thought hmmmmm.

Danny the same thought crossed my mind when I first looked at the picture. However the visual clues indicate, at least to me, that the bed was not on the truck at the time the tornado struck. First, the beds of pickups are attached to the frames with some pretty hefty bolts, and it stands to reason that if the bed was pulled off the truck by the tornado the force needed to break those bolts wold have moved the truck at least some. Yet there it sits, perfectly straight on the lift. Also, the truck appears to be a mid 60s Chevy or GMC similar to this one:

It appears to be in the middle of a customizing project, the wheels and tires are not what you would normally expect to see on a work truck. The high back bucket seats are not normally found in work trucks, also the amount of red primer indicates a lot of body work and prep for painting has been done.

I cropped the picture and enlarged the image to better show this.

But it's still weird that there it sits amidst all that devastation, relatively unharmed.

TW

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » May 14th, 2008, 7:12 am

I agree TW but it is an interesting thought nonetheless. What if the truck really wasn't on the lift and the storm put it there?

cndlou · Postby **cndlou** » May 14th, 2008, 9:06 am

I received this in an email from the State Overseer this afternoon regarding the storm.....

"The tornado that hit Macon, GA started out near our house about 5:30 AM but God saw fit to spare us. The campground was hit and it laid 26 trees down, but did very little structural damage. You would not believe that it followed 80 highway and did millions of dollars of damage. It's a miracle that with so much damage GA only had one to die in the storm."

HarmlessDove · Postby **HarmlessDove** » May 14th, 2008, 12:02 pm

MrDanger wrote:He's assuming you are COGOP and is wanting to know about the COGOP campground in Lizella, GA

gotcha.

Jude 2