Most companies at tornado-damaged downtown office buildings plan to open Monday, although it won't be a normal start to the workweek.

"We're in good enough shape to move forward," said Joe Snowden, the president of McRae, the public relations firm located near the top of the Equitable Building at 100 Peachtree St. "We will absolutely be at work Monday morning."

McRae lost eight to 10 windows on the building's 32nd floor. In all about 300 windows disappeared or were damaged throughout the building, but there was no structural damage, said Gayle Kantro, a spokeswoman for Jones Lang LaSalle, the property manager.

Some glass was sucked out, allowing strange debris such as legal papers and insulation to blow in at McRae's offices, Snowden said. Storm spray left a filmy residue. And plywood window-coverings now block some high-rise views.

Still, it's usable workplace, Snowden said.

But another Equitable Building tenant, Accenture, decided to avoid downtown for the time being.

"We are working on cleanup and plan to reopen in the next few days," Accenture spokeswoman Stacey Jones said. "Impacted employees will telecommute or work out of our main office at Centergy One in Midtown."

Accenture, a company involved in consulting, technology and outsourcing, has 170 workers in the Equitable Building.

Elsewhere downtown, the SunTrust Tower at 25 Park Place, including the bank branch, will be open even though the building lost nearly 100 windows, spokesman Hugh Suhr said.

Sixty employees will be working temporarily in different spaces, Suhr said. "It's going to be business as usual, other than that," he said.

The 50-story 191 Peachtree building owned by Cousins Properties suffered "dozens" of cracked windows, and one window on the 37th floor was blown out, Cousins spokesman Matt Gove said. But overall "we got very lucky," Gove said. "It went right by us." The building will be open.

The 51-story Georgia-Pacific building down the street also will be open. Glass on three sides of the building was shattered and window curtains on the upper floors could be seen swaying in the wind just after the storm hit.

But workers at Georgia-Pacific and the other buildings scrambled Friday night to begin repairs in an attempt to make the buildings functional by Monday morning.

At the Equitable Building, for example, "35 people were on site within two hours," said Clint Harrington, executive vice president of Equastone, the California company that owns the building.

For many companies, that hustle made all the difference.

Plywood adornments notwithstanding, "we're open tomorrow, ready to go," Georgia-Pacific spokesman James Malone said.

One of the hardest hit downtown businesses: The Omni Hotel at CNN Center.

"The Omni Hotel at CNN Center is fully operational with the exception of 467 rooms located in the south tower, which will reopen in two weeks," Spurgeon Richardson, president of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, wrote in a glass-half-full letter sent to meeting planners and other customers of the organization.

"The building has been declared structurally sound and all guest rooms in the North Tower, all meeting space, the lobby and restaurant are operating," he said of the Omni.

The north tower is the newer and taller of the two wings of the hotel.

The food court at CNN Center, popular with visitors and downtown workers alike, will reopen Monday. Roof repairs were made Sunday.

The Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola and Imagine It!, the children's museum of Atlanta, are open. A ticket booth at the Coke museum was damaged, but the main building was untouched. The aquarium brought the sea lions inside the building from their outdoor habitat as a precaution.

The aquarium even had about 10,000 visitors Saturday, spokesman Dave Santucci said, and it expected 5,000 to 6,000 on Sunday. He said attendance might have been greater if media reports had not advised people to avoid downtown.

"The aquarium was unaffected by the storm. We didn't even lose power," he said.

About 12 guest rooms at the Westin Peachtree, the gleaming silo-like hotel on Peachtree Street near the old Macy's building, were affected by windows that were blown out by the storm, said Lauren Jarrell, spokeswoman for the Convention and Visitors Bureau. Guests were moved to other rooms and the hotel remained operational.