Eye Clinic across the street from Sumter Regional Hospital after three months
May 27, 2007
Americus, Georgia
Photographer states :: Closed Emergency Room on NorthEastern corner of Sumter Regional Hospital shows damage that occurred nearly three months ago
"AMERICUS, Ga., March 2 — The tornado that ripped through this southwest Georgia town Thursday not only left a trail of death and devastation, it also stripped bare the only major medical facilities for thousands of people in a sprawling rural community.
The storm, which killed two people here, tore apart buildings and unearthed 100-year-old oak trees, left this town of nearly 17,000 and the outlying area without a hospital or clinic that could handle emergencies...."
TORNADO 5...UPDATED (click here)
TRACKED ACROSS WEBSTER...SUMTER...AND MACON COUNTIES...FROMCHAMBLISS TO ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF AMERICUS. RATED EF3. PATHLENGTH APPROXIMATELY 38 MILES AND MAXIMUM WIDTH OF ONE MILE INAMERICUS. HEAVIEST DAMAGE WAS IN THE CITY OF AMERICUS AROUND THESUMTER REGIONAL HOSPITAL. THE HOSPITAL WAS EVACUATED AND IS NOTBEING USED. HUNDREDS OF HOMES...BUSINESSES AND VEHICLES WEREAFFECTED WITH SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OR TOTALLY DESTROYED. TWO CONFIRMEDDEATHS AND NUMEROUS INJURIES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM INAMERICUS. THREE INJURIES ALSO OCCURRED NORTHEAST OF CHAMBLISS ONEAST CENTERPOINT ROAD WHEN A CONCRETE BLOCK HOUSE AND TWO MACHINESHOPS WERE TOTALLY DESTROYED. THE ROAD IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE HAD 25FEET OF ASPHALT RIPPED OUT. FIVE COWS WERE KILLED IN THE SAME AREA.A TRACTOR TRAILER WAS OVERTURNED AND BURNED AT THE INTERSECTION OFHIGHWAY 520 AND TV TOWER ROAD IN SOUTH WEBSTER COUNTY. ONE PERSONWAS INJURED. THE 1096 FOOT GEORGIA PUBLIC TELEVISION TOWER IN THESAME AREA WAS SNAPPED OFF WITH ONLY 150 FEET STILL STANDING.
