Bluerauder
07-10-2005, 02:02 PM
Just saw this while watching the NASCAR race from Chicagoland ... the racetrack looks like a combat zone.
Atlanta Motor Speedway hit by Tornado (http://www.nascar.com/2005/news/headlines/cup/07/07/atlanta_stormdamage.ap/index.html)
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) -- The Atlanta Motor Speedway looks as if it was in a high-speed crash.
Entire sections of its grandstand and luxury boxes are shredded. Oak trees, flagpoles and a light tower are snapped. On some of the speedway's condominiums, the roof is caved in, windows are shattered.
Every structure at the facility, which hosts NASCAR races and smaller events, was roughed up by a half-mile-wide tornado spawned Wednesday night by the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy.
"Everything but the track surface has suffered some kind of damage... There are some buildings that will have to be torn down,'' said Speedway President Ed Clark, who estimated $25 million to $40 million in damage at the speedway
Atlanta Motor Speedway hit by Tornado (http://www.nascar.com/2005/news/headlines/cup/07/07/atlanta_stormdamage.ap/index.html)
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) -- The Atlanta Motor Speedway looks as if it was in a high-speed crash.
Entire sections of its grandstand and luxury boxes are shredded. Oak trees, flagpoles and a light tower are snapped. On some of the speedway's condominiums, the roof is caved in, windows are shattered.
Every structure at the facility, which hosts NASCAR races and smaller events, was roughed up by a half-mile-wide tornado spawned Wednesday night by the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy.
"Everything but the track surface has suffered some kind of damage... There are some buildings that will have to be torn down,'' said Speedway President Ed Clark, who estimated $25 million to $40 million in damage at the speedway