With clear blue skies and temperatures near 80 degrees, quite a few East Cobbers found some some open space at the Wellstar East Cobb Health Park Saturday afternoon to watch the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds flyover honoring frontline COVID-19 workers.
They began their metro Atlanta excursion flying from Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, then down along I-75 before looping back up through Sandy Springs and Roswell, and then on to the city of Atlanta and eventually to Newnan.
The entire flight didn’t take long, and it helped to be very close to the flight path. The planes were barely visible from this point in East Cobb as they reached their turn-around point in Roswell, and only a trace of their booming sounds could be heard.
Roswell resident Robert Davis lives virtually underneath the flight path, and he tagged us on the Instagram video below, taken as the planes screeched overhead:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_sd3MJB-iF/
While Davis didn’t have to leave home, those at the health park lingered for a while afterwards, enjoying some fresh air—while practicing social distancing—at the end of the seventh week since the Coronavirus crisis shut down so much of daily life.
The nearby East Cobb Park, like many in the county, remains closed—locked up, actually—although a few other passive parks and trails reopened last week.
Another good crowd was also on hand to watch the flyover from the spacious parking lot at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, the venue for what would have been the Taste of East Cobb today.
That event, like so many others through the spring and summer, was cancelled.
While some businesses are gradually reopening again—there were a good number of cars at shopping centers like Merchant’s Walk—it’s far from being what it would normally be on a splendid spring weekend.
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