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re: 15 years ago today on April 27, 2011 a tornado went through Tuscaloosa
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:21 am to Crash Bandicoot
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:21 am to Crash Bandicoot
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You don't have to show your stupidity in every thread. It's well documented by now.
A tornado can bury a piece of straw in a brick. If you get caught in a tornado the wind doesn't kill you. Boards, bricks, cars, cows and everything else flying through the air and hitting you does the trick.
Unlike hurricanes where you get a month long notice a tonado is like, "We have a tornado warning...and there that MFer is..."
Okay. What does any of that have to do with his exaggerations?
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Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:24 am to SidewalkTiger
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Okay. What does any of that have to do with his exaggerations?
"Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid" - unknown
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:27 am to Crash Bandicoot
Y'all, please don't derail a thread like this. Yell at each other in another thread.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:31 am to Ramblin Wreck
Missed my apartment by about a mile and a half.
The next morning some friends and I went to check out the area around 15th, Lakeshore, and McFarland to check things out. It looked like a bomb went off. Actually, it looked like several big bombs went off. Never seen anything like it in my life, and hope to never again. Life changing event for sure. I took some photos of the damage with my little olympus point and shoot that day.
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I took a picture of this when I was helping people find their belongings in some project housing later that week. Thought it was cool that our Louisiana friends were helping us out
The next morning some friends and I went to check out the area around 15th, Lakeshore, and McFarland to check things out. It looked like a bomb went off. Actually, it looked like several big bombs went off. Never seen anything like it in my life, and hope to never again. Life changing event for sure. I took some photos of the damage with my little olympus point and shoot that day.
> I took a picture of this when I was helping people find their belongings in some project housing later that week. Thought it was cool that our Louisiana friends were helping us out
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 10:47 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:31 am to borotiger
quote:When you actually know people who have lost their lives in a tornado. When you have actually had your property damaged or destroyed in one.
Y'all, please don't derail a thread like this. Yell at each other in another thread.
You aren't very tolerant of people that say, "That don't sound like it happned."
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:41 am to anc
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I always think of the Alabama swimmer who died protecting his girlfriend.
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John died in the April 28, 2014 outbreak, not the April 27, 2011 outbreak.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:43 am to Funky Tide 8
My good buddy took this from his place in Houndstooth Condos on 15th st, just north of it
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:45 am to Funky Tide 8
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Thought it was cool that our Louisiana friends were helping us out
They helped as did a lot of others around the south. I'm not equating the two but 911 was a National tragedy that united the County whereas this was a regional tragedy that united the Southeast, at least for a while.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:47 am to borotiger
As shitty as this board can be at times, several on here at the time stepped up and made significant donations to go over and help out the victims. You know who you are!
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:12 am to Crash Bandicoot
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The tornado that killed so many in DeKalb County, AL started on top of Sand Mountain. It walked right down the mountainside and wrecked Trenton, GA at the bottom
You could see the tornado's path right off the interstate for a long time after that.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:24 am to Ramblin Wreck
Can't believe that was already 15 years ago
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:30 am to SidewalkTiger
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This seems like some pretty wild exaggerations.
Get the frick out of this thread, the grownups are talking.
Only you would use a thread about tornadoes that killed over 300 and injured thousands to play your “well actually” game.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:37 am to Funky Tide 8
I didn’t take many pictures. But here are some I took from the Forest Lake neighborhood the afternoon after the tornadoes.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:38 am to Ramblin Wreck
I was there, but thankfully I was out of the tornado's path. I remember the incredible stillness and darkness that night. Everything I saw the next day was astonishing. It was like God had taken a knife and dragged it along the Earth, because the path of the tornado was so defined.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 11:39 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:12 pm to SidewalkTiger
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The Tuscaloosa tornado was on the ground for about 80 miles and the majority of that was between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham so there's no way the path went 100 miles into Tuscaloosa...
If you look at the path of the Tuscaloosa tornado you'll see that the storm lifted, but the cell produced a very powerful tornado east of Birmingham that continued a long ways into Georgia as well.
They only count it as one "tornado" if it stays on the ground, but those cells were raising hell all over the place so the effect from a plane would have someone describe it as the same storm.
Same thing happened flying into or out of MS/LA after Katrina and in FL/GA after Hurricane Michael, the broken pine trees could be seen visually from the air much further than you would've expected away from the coast.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:18 pm to captdalton
After graduation I walked through a house in that subdivision with the intent to buy it if I accepted a job offer I had to work in the W AL area.
Ended up taking a job out of state and the house was leveled and thrown into the lake leaving nothing but plumbing sticking out of the slab.
But as bad as the Tuscaloosa tornado was, it wasnt close to what happened up in Phil Campbell/Hackleburg. That storm was sucking people out of storm cellars and tearing the asphalt off roads.
Ended up taking a job out of state and the house was leveled and thrown into the lake leaving nothing but plumbing sticking out of the slab.
But as bad as the Tuscaloosa tornado was, it wasnt close to what happened up in Phil Campbell/Hackleburg. That storm was sucking people out of storm cellars and tearing the asphalt off roads.
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