Atlanta tornado: Inside one Red Cross shelter
Monday, March 17th, 2008When Friday’s tornado blazed through Vine City, Rochelle DeVaughn was asleep. Just before the windows of their Simpson Street apartment shattered from the late-night twister’s force, she was shaken awake by her husband.
“[He] woke me up and said, ‘It’s time to go,’” the Pittsburgh, Penn. native says. “I made it to the bottom of the steps and that’s when everything hit the fan, you know?”
DeVaughn rests on a brick wall outside the Central Park Recreation Center on Merritt Avenue, which sits in the shadows of the midtown skyline. Until Atlanta residents displaced by the disaster can get back on their feet, American Red Cross spokesperson Ruben Brown says, the two-story brick building will serve as a temporary relief center and shelter. (more…)
