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The city of Ringgold Georgia has put up six billboards to tell tourists, travelers, and people from surrounding Georgia cities that Ringgold is indeed open for business.

It’s been a little more than three months since a tornado hit the city, leaving one of the its business districts — Ga. 151 (Alabama Highway) — in shambles. Several businesses in that district have reopened.

The city’s downtown business area, while it suffered some damage, was left largely intact.

“It was one of the worst tragedies imaginable for a city to have to endure,” said marketing coordinator Daniel Shepard. “At the same time though, it’s been somewhat tragic in a different way that people just pass by the town with the thought that there’s nothing left. There are so many shops, businesses, and eateries here that have been up and running since right after the storm, and it’s a shame that they’re losing business due to the perception that the city is out of commission.”

The six new billboards are along state roads in the area and are an expansion of banners that the city installed in early July.