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The Tuscaloosa Tornado
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:32 pm
There is a show on Weather Channel right now about it. I actually was flying out to Dallas that day and remember looking out the window at a cell reaching up to 50k feet or so. I had no clue what I was seeing at the time. I could not believe what I saw when we landed. 12 months or so later flying up to Arkansas I looked out at Birmingham and could still see the "scar" of that tornado's path.
Glad you Bama posters were safe through it all and hope your loved ones were too.
(Sorry if this should have been on OT)
Glad you Bama posters were safe through it all and hope your loved ones were too.
(Sorry if this should have been on OT)
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:52 pm to flyAU
Remember watching it on TWC and CNN. Scary scary shite. When they showed the tornado in the near distance framed above one of BD's upper decks, we were like - what in the actual phuuuuuck ??!!
Prayers to the families 5 years later.....
Prayers to the families 5 years later.....
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:54 pm to flyAU
Daughter was three blocks away, 12th. Still get chills thinking about that day.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:56 pm to flyAU
I thought James Span would die that day.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:57 pm to flyAU
Ole Miss will write on a football about the deadly tornado then will get their brains beat in.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:03 pm to flyAU
Just drove up the Natchez Trace a couple months ago. That thing ate up several miles of the Trace too. Such a horrible tragedy and unfortunately not one that can really be avoided.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:37 pm to flyAU
My brother was a freshman at Rose Towers. It was a very scary deal that they lost all contact with the world.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:44 pm to flyAU
Just watched it. It's one of those things I watch regretfully. I fricking hate tornadoes.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:57 pm to flyAU
"Tuscaloosa Tornado" it did the most damage there but there was many many tornados across the whole northern part of the state that day and the particular tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa I believe first touched down near Philidelphia, Mississippi and wasn't fully gone until it was in Georgia. It was the same Tornado that took lives in the Birmingham area as well.
*No Disrespect* at all, I fully appreciate the magnitude of what occurred in Tuscaloosa that day as I saw the aftermath with my own eyes, but so often I see just Tuscaloosa mentioned in reference to 4/27/11 and unless referring very specifically to just what happened there, it kind of rubs me the wrong way because I feel it takes awareness away from the pain and destruction I saw all over the state from the Birmingham area, to Cullman, to Huntsville area, to Tuscaloosa as well.
Again, hope nobody reads any disrespect into this post or any AU vs UA bullshite. I just want people to remember the 252 people that died across Alabama that day, not just the 44 in Tuscaloosa, or the 67 total from this particular tornado.
RIP to all, and I hope I never have to witness a tragedy on this scale in my own backyard again
*No Disrespect* at all, I fully appreciate the magnitude of what occurred in Tuscaloosa that day as I saw the aftermath with my own eyes, but so often I see just Tuscaloosa mentioned in reference to 4/27/11 and unless referring very specifically to just what happened there, it kind of rubs me the wrong way because I feel it takes awareness away from the pain and destruction I saw all over the state from the Birmingham area, to Cullman, to Huntsville area, to Tuscaloosa as well.
Again, hope nobody reads any disrespect into this post or any AU vs UA bullshite. I just want people to remember the 252 people that died across Alabama that day, not just the 44 in Tuscaloosa, or the 67 total from this particular tornado.
RIP to all, and I hope I never have to witness a tragedy on this scale in my own backyard again
Posted on 6/7/16 at 10:03 pm to flyAU
God bless
God bless
God bless
Posted on 6/7/16 at 10:07 pm to flyAU
I was on campus the day it happened, completely tore apart McFarlane and other parts of Tuscaloosa. I remember going to Publix the day after the tornado left and just seeing other students lined up around the outlets just to charge their phone so they could reach their parents because most of the city was out of power. It was definitely an eye opening experience I'll say.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:11 pm to flyAU
quote:
The Tuscaloosa Tornado
That image still makes me
even though it was 5 years ago.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:35 pm to flyAU
I hate it every time we replay it on our long form programming. It makes me hurt. My wife is a UA alumn and her sister was still in school at the time there and I had to work 17 hours straight covering the outbreak not being able to answer questions fast enough to my bride or to my father in law.
Many people hold STRONG emotions in sports, I did too. But that week put everything in perspective for me. Seeing the devastation in person shortly thereafter after being subjected to nonstop live video coming in as it happened, already knowing the stories behind certain locations, hurt.
I hate seeing it air every 3 weeks but I realize that if we cancelled every showing of an emotional tragedy we'd have to cancel every season of 'Why planes crash' and every show about joplin, Moore, ok ,Tuscaloosa and every mention of that night that spanned from Mississippi to Birmingham to north Georgia to Tennessee that suffered devestation that insane night. However, thats what people watch these days.
All that to say, my heart will always be with those who lived (and died) through those terrible hours a few years ago.
Many people hold STRONG emotions in sports, I did too. But that week put everything in perspective for me. Seeing the devastation in person shortly thereafter after being subjected to nonstop live video coming in as it happened, already knowing the stories behind certain locations, hurt.
I hate seeing it air every 3 weeks but I realize that if we cancelled every showing of an emotional tragedy we'd have to cancel every season of 'Why planes crash' and every show about joplin, Moore, ok ,Tuscaloosa and every mention of that night that spanned from Mississippi to Birmingham to north Georgia to Tennessee that suffered devestation that insane night. However, thats what people watch these days.
All that to say, my heart will always be with those who lived (and died) through those terrible hours a few years ago.
This post was edited on 6/7/16 at 11:40 pm
Posted on 6/8/16 at 12:07 am to flyAU
Scared the crap out of me. My daughter was a freshmen, living in Tutweiler. I was out on a trip, and had no idea what was going on. My sister, who lives in BHM, called me, asked if I had warned my daughter what was coming. I said no, what are you talking about? She hung up, called my daughter, told her what was happening, and she rushed to the basement of the library, and came out ok. It was a terrible day.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 12:14 am to flyAU
Here in D/FW we have come to expect a tornado on a weekly basis from March to late October, and I am ALWAYS on edge when a storm comes through. But, I can't imagine living outside of tornado ally and never expecting such a disaster, only to have one of the deadliest tornados rip through town.
Scary.
Scary.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 7:46 am to flyAU
At the time I wasn't sure if it was the smartest thing to do, but I left town a few hours before it touched down. I remember going back to my place at the retreat and counting my blessings...that complex could've easily been destroyed. What a time.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 7:47 am to flyAU
Why do you still have that sig? 
Posted on 6/8/16 at 8:02 am to flyAU
Sister lived in apartments near McFarland BLVD. It was awful.
What used to be a nice neighborhood is now a giant shopping center.
What used to be a nice neighborhood is now a giant shopping center.
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