ATL Tower Hit By Lightning!

[rd757]

The tower at ATL was struck by lightning a few minutes ago. They have 2 people remaining in the cab. All electrical in out in the cab, Fire/EMS on the way to sniff it out. Setting up temp tower in the E Ramp Tower.

www.ATCMonitor.com

RD

 

[SpiceWeasel]

I believe it. I'm riding this crap out up in Midtown... there have been some pretty close strikes around here that have messed with the power.

 

[rd757]

Apparently power is back on in the cab, still only 2 people up there. Systems are resetting...

RD

 

[Kmaceri]

Thank god i came back from EZM to LZU at the time I did. I saw the storm over ATL around 6:30 and it was looking bad. I was hearing a bunch of re-routings around the ATL and west Ga side over my Freq.

 

[mxflyer]

Somebody in there pissed off the wrong pilot

 

[KLB]

I flew over the ATL vor at FL180 around 5:30 and there was a huge build up developing. A lot of the planes coming out of there was about the bumpy ride.

 

[Minuteman]

Somebody in there pissed off the wrong pilot

Copilot.

 

[Easton14]

We(AirTran) had a record number of diversions tonight for our hub...40 total from about 1930L on....amazingly we didn't cancel very much.

 

[BobDDuck]

I know there were two CLT-ATL departures leaving when I got into CLT around 11:45 last night. Seemed pretty late for them but I guess that's why.