Heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes raced across Rockmart, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta on Saturday

A classroom at Lillian C. Poole Elementary School in Paulding County is severely damaged by an apparent tornado touch down in Rockmart, Georgia, that also damaged homes and the county's airport, about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta, on March 3, 2012. The National Weather Service said the destructive storms were the second outbreak of severe storms in just three days across much of the central U.S. UPI/David Tulis