Pat Shingleton for August 6, 2008
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As residents clean up in southeast Texas from Eduoard, and a tornado in Griffith, Ind., we rewind five months to a single twister that destroyed a landmark. The Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta is the resting place of Confederate generals, governors and “Gone With the Wind” author Margaret Mitchell. The New York Times reported March 14 that a tornado passed over the cemetery in 30 seconds, destroying 100-year-old trees, mausoleums and sculptures. Workers removed 86 trees with tangled root systems that further complicated caskets. Oakland is one of the few remaining cemeteries where graves are still dug by hand as heavy machinery wasn’t used to clean and repair the damage.
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