re: The Tuscaloosa Tornado

No offense taken by you mentioning the other towns impacted.

Up this way, Hackleburg/Phil Campbell were wiped off the map.

A many of the victims were young children and grandparents. They did a story on the news and it happens that the parents of the young children were at work and their parents/family members were providing childcare for them.

They interviewed 5 or 6 people who lost their children AND their parents to the storm. Just unthinkable.

I call on the one medical clinic there and we went to help them pick through the rubble - the clinic was destroyed. I still can't really allow myself to think about the things I saw or it will send me into a mind spiral of bad thoughts.

I know most of us are used to the weather folks overhyping everything nowadays as a "big weather event" and I used to get irritated when I would be inconvenienced by a weather alert that didn't pan out.

After that day, I take them all seriously. Y'all please do the same. Mother Nature is a bad fricking bitch, y'all.