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Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:04 pm to SidewalkTiger
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What does the casualty count have to do with someone posting blatantly false stories in this thread?
The fact you asked that question shows you have the emotional development and maturity of a toddler.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:08 pm to captdalton
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The fact you asked that question shows you have the emotional development and maturity of a toddler.
So you tell me, what does the casualty count have to do with the blatantly false stories?
It could be argued that spreading false information related to the storm, actually cheapens the impact and is disrespectful to those who really did suffer.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:13 pm to SidewalkTiger
It just seems petty and trivial to challenge something like that. Who gives a frick?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:36 pm to Funky Tide 8
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It just seems petty and trivial to challenge something like that. Who gives a frick?
It just depends on how much accuracy matters to you, really.
The scar thing is just semantics, I'm sure everyone has viewed the 4/27/11 scars, either from the air or in photos. Mileage or whatever isn't that important and there really wasn't much of one even leading into Tuscaloosa. The poster must've seen Birmingham and got mixed up. Who cares.
However, it's pretty clear that no steel beam was thrown "over a mile" outside of the path of the tornado, and then cut a house in two. That's a pretty wild story.
Had it happened, it would have definitely been included in the survey, much like the trestle being thrown near Holt and the railroad cars being rolled/overturned near Pleasant Grove. Or like the SUV being thrown into the water tower in Smithville, those types of events are recorded in the official storm survey.
The event was bad enough in and of itself, I see no benefit from embellishing certain details from it or reposting wives' tales.
I do take severe weather events very serious and try to retain a certain level of accuracy when discussing them. Maybe everyone isn't that way. I think we can always learn and prepare for the future better, with what we know from past events.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:38 pm to SidewalkTiger
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So you tell me, what does the casualty count have to do with the blatantly false stories?
The previous poster answered well. It is petty and juvenile. Further it is narcissistic behavior. How can you make this about you. You are using this thread to try to embarrass other people so you feel better about yourself.
The fact you cannot recognize that a thread discussing something that killed hundreds, hurt thousands and impacted hundreds of thousands of people is not the place for that, to point out a minor detail is wrong just so you can have a gotcha moment, says 100% who you are.
And then when you did correct them you got the number wrong. That is classic SidewalkTiger.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:55 pm to captdalton
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The previous poster answered well. It is petty and juvenile. Further it is narcissistic behavior. How can you make this about you. You are using this thread to try to embarrass other people so you feel better about yourself.
It isn't about me nor the other poster. It's possible his friend was lying to him, it's possible that someone lied to his friend, I don't know. I just know it didn't happen.
I noticed another poster corrected someone else about an Alabama swimmer dying in a separate event, it's interesting that you didn't jump all over him. But not surprising.
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The fact you cannot recognize that a thread discussing something that killed hundreds, hurt thousands and impacted hundreds of thousands of people is not the place for that, to point out a minor detail is wrong just so you can have a gotcha moment, says 100% who you are.
Alleging that a tornado is capable of throwing a steel beam over a mile outside of the path, and then cutting a home in half isn't really a "minor detail"...I guess that's where the disconnect is happening.
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And then when you did correct them you got the number wrong. That is classic SidewalkTiger.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:56 pm to Funky Tide 8
The Hobby Lobby photo reminds me that my daughter had dropped off a poster scheduled for framing at that tornado-damaged Tuscaloosa Hobby Lobby in the photo. Weeks later she receives a call from one of the Birmingham Hobby Lobby's informing her that her poster was found in the Birmingham area and was dropped off at the Birmingham Hobby Lobby for framing. That was a powerful tornado carrying debris many miles.
A second story also comes to mind. My wife worked at a physical therapy office on Bryant Drive. Just before the tornado passed through in the vicinity of 15th, she went out the back door of the office to go home on McFarland crossing the river. At the time she left the office, one of her patients went out the front door going in the opposite direction toward 15th. She was never seen or heard from again. My wife suspects she was one of the victims of the tornado.
A second story also comes to mind. My wife worked at a physical therapy office on Bryant Drive. Just before the tornado passed through in the vicinity of 15th, she went out the back door of the office to go home on McFarland crossing the river. At the time she left the office, one of her patients went out the front door going in the opposite direction toward 15th. She was never seen or heard from again. My wife suspects she was one of the victims of the tornado.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:59 pm to EssexTiger
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The Hobby Lobby photo reminds me that my daughter had dropped off a poster scheduled for framing at that tornado-damaged Tuscaloosa Hobby Lobby in the photo. Weeks later she receives a call from one of the Birmingham Hobby Lobby's informing her that her poster was found in the Birmingham area and was dropped off at the Birmingham Hobby Lobby for framing. That was a powerful tornado carrying debris many miles.
That's actually a really cool story.
An interesting factoid related to debris carried by tornadoes and distance:
The longest recorded journey of debris from a tornado is a paper receipt from the EF5 Joplin tornado in Missouri on May 22, 2011, which was found 525 miles away in Royal Center, Indiana
Posted on 4/27/26 at 2:09 pm to SidewalkTiger
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I noticed another poster corrected someone else about an Alabama swimmer dying in a separate event, it's interesting that you didn't jump all over him. But not surprising.
That is because they don’t have a history of being a petty bitch who lives on the SEC Rant trying to play “gotcha” in every thread.
You have lots of people in here offering honest remembrances of that day.
And then there is you. Telling them they are wrong in your usual snide and superior manner. Nitpicking trivial details so you can win the internet. And even though multiple people have said this isn’t the place you just keeping digging.
I suspect the reason you spend all your waking hours here is because real people have made it clear they want nothing to do with you. Sadly those of us here cannot physically stuff you in a locker like they have.
I honestly did not think my opinion of you could fall any further. I was wrong. It isn’t like you are trying to joke around. You are dead serious. You aren’t worth responding to anymore. I am just going to ignore you like everyone in your real life does because you are an insufferable twat waffle.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 2:14 pm to captdalton
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That is because they don’t have a history of being a petty bitch who lives on the SEC Rant trying to play “gotcha” in every thread.
What a complete and total lack of self awareness.
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You have lots of people in here offering honest remembrances of that day.
And then there is you. Telling them they are wrong in your usual snide and superior manner. Nitpicking trivial details so you can win the internet. And even though multiple people have said this isn’t the place you just keeping digging.
I made a factual statement to one person, still not sure why it bothers you so much.
Your personal attacks and obsession really are making this quite juvenile and petty.
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I suspect the reason you spend all your waking hours here is because real people have made it clear they want nothing to do with you. Sadly those of us here cannot physically stuff you in a locker like they have.
I honestly did not think my opinion of you could fall any further. I was wrong. It isn’t like you are trying to joke around. You are dead serious. You aren’t worth responding to anymore. I am just going to ignore you like everyone in your real life does because you are an insufferable twat waffle.
Thank God.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 2:15 pm to Ramblin Wreck
One thing that's guaranteed.... mother nature DGAF how good your college team is or how many nattys they've won. She will frick your world up... like cajunbama on a crack pipe!
Posted on 4/27/26 at 2:19 pm to Funky Tide 8
I think this may be the same area, just from opposite sides of the lake.
I wish I had taken a picture of the lake. The south end of the lake down by the 15th Street was just covered in floating debris - i.e. what was left of houses and trees. It was surreal.
I wish I had taken a picture of the lake. The south end of the lake down by the 15th Street was just covered in floating debris - i.e. what was left of houses and trees. It was surreal.
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