re: SEC Ranter Check-In Thread (with Help info and links)Updated

thanks for checking. I live in Vestavia Hills near the Bluff Park/Hoover area which was hit hard with storm damage. Unbeliveable the uprooted (and I mean HUGE trees). We lost power until 9 or so last night but evidently didn't get "internet" until this morning. Fortunately we just have some twigs and a stray shingle or two in the yard. A house a block away had a tree come through their front door.

I work in Hueytown. Now, "as the crow flies", its about three miles east of Concord and two miles south of Pleasant Grove. We have no power (which also means no phone at work),which in the big picture is no big whoop,but can't do anywork so I came home.

But Concord. Oh, my goodness. Went by there on the way home. Just awful. Roads are closed going over there but it got hit like a grenade. Rather small, rural area but 11 people were killed. For those familiar with the area Concord is only 5-6 miles from Oak Grove, site of the horrible April 1998 tornado.