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Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:57 pm to flyAU
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
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:00 pm to BowlJackson
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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.
Unless the tornado was off the ground for a very long time, the tornado that hit Tuscaloosa touched down just to the west of 69 in Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 8:14 am to BowlJackson
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"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 bull shite. 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
Nobody should be offended by this post. I don't think there's any intended slight by the 'extra' coverage of the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham tornado. It gets the attention because it hit a major metropolitan area on live TV in broad daylight. That's a combination that guarantees a massive amount of converge.
Like you, I hope to never see anything like it again. As a vollie FF/EMT, I responded to tornado #56 on the map you posted - the last fatal Alabama tornado that day. It is a terrible, terrible feeling rolling out of the bay knowing some of your community are already dead.
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