. Hurricane Opal brought sustained tropical storm conditions to the area one night in early October 1995 uprooting hundreds of trees and causing widespread power outages after soaking the area with rain for two days prior Since 1950 some metro counties have been hit more than 20 times by tornadoes with Cobb (26) and Fulton (22) being two of the highest in the state the Dunwoody tornado in early April 1998 was the worst tornado to have struck the area a tornado struck downtown Atlanta in March 2008 causing a half-billion dollars in damage one of the most expensive storms ever recorded anywhere. Many music theatre dance and opera performances are held in the Ferst Center for the Arts DramaTech is the campus' student-run theater the theater has been entertaining Georgia Tech and the surrounding community since 1947 They are also home to Let's Try This! (the campus improv troupe) and VarietyTech (a song and dance troupe) Momocon is an annual anime/gaming/comics convention held on campus in March hosted by Anime O-Tekku the Georgia Tech anime club the convention has free admission and was held in the Student Center Instructional Center and surrounding outdoor areas until 2010 Beginning in 2011 the convention moved its venue to locations in Technology Square, A Terms of the Georgia General Assembly, Bobby 8 External links As of the 2010 United States Census there were 920,581 people 376,377 households and 209,215 families residing in the county the population density was 1,748.0 inhabitants per square mile (674.9/km2) There were 437,105 housing units at an average density of 830.0 per square mile (320.5/km2) the racial makeup of the county was 46.4% white 44.3% black or African American 6.9% Asian 0.2% American Indian 3.4% from other races and 2.2% from two or more races Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 7.5% of the population in terms of ancestry 7.7% were English 7.2% were German 6.3% were Irish and 5.4% were American. . 1.5 Lacrosse Modes Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces operating more than 300 trains daily over 21,400 miles (34,000 km) of track Amtrak owns approximately 623 miles of this track and operates an additional 132 miles of track Some track sections allow trains to run as fast as 150 mph (240 km/h), 118 144 52/11 83/28 Chastain Park Recreational trails.
Atlanta Georgia business directory 7.1 Major highways, 13 Notes The first class of 95 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888 and the first two graduates received their degrees in 1890 Since then the institute has greatly expanded with an enrollment of 14,558 undergraduates and 6,913 postgraduate students as of Fall 2013. In 2006 the General Assembly approved creation of two new cities Milton and Johns Creek which completed municipalization of North Fulton the charters of these two new cities were ratified overwhelmingly in a referendum held July 18 2006. . . San Marino (1), Consistent with national trends the murder rate in Atlanta peaked in 1990 and have declined since From 2000 to 2010 murders in the city declined by nearly 50 percent the years 2009 and 2012 had the lowest numbers of homicides in Atlanta than any year dating back to 1963 but there has been an increase in murders in the city beginning in 2013 the number of murders in Atlanta was 80 in 2009 92 in 2010 88 in 2011 85 in 2012 82 in 2013 93 in 2014 95 in 2015 and 111 in 2016 a significant number of murders have remained unsolved; as of February 2017 51 of the 111 homicides from 2016 remain unsolved.
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