re: Alabama tornado discussion and links

Nice White truck, Hunter

Thanks.. gets good gas mileage.

The phone didn't do the pictures any justice, plus I was going down the road snapping them. 11 folks were killed through that valley. Where some of the houses were, there was just slabs and there were 60 year old pines probably 3 or 4 foot in circumference that were just twisted off about 15 foot off the ground. It looked like a logging company went in and just raped the land.

The above concrete is what is left of a home. It's the slab foundation.

Headed to Guntersville,Al. Will be leaving next week on a mission trip with my church to help with disaster relief. Does anyone know of what other needs they are looking for? We will be roofing, debris removal etc, but what are their major needs as for as supplies?

I haven't heard that anything happened to Guntersville. On the news it was Toney, Phil Campbell and Hackleburg.

We made contact with a church up there and that was some of there main concerns. May not have had as much damage, but this was one of the places that was requesting help.

Wow, not Alabama, but satellite images of Joplin, Mo, High school, before and after. (bar in middle of photo, slide back and forth with mouse.)

LINK

Sirens going off in Shelby County TN. (memphis, Germantown, millington, Cordova, Barlett, and Collierville)

here's an alabama tornado story with a delayed happy ending...


Thu May 26, 12:31 pm ET


Dog with two broken legs finds owner after storm
By Liz Goodwin
– Thu May 26, 12:31 pm ET

A scruffy Alabama terrier mix named Mason was whisked away by fierce twisters last month, prompting his owners, who lost their home in the storm, to fear the worst. But the redoubtable mutt apparently crawled back to his home days later with two broken legs in a remarkable tale of survival.

Local news outlet WBRC reports that Mason was blown away by the storm from the garage in Birmingham where he was hiding on April 27. His owners looked for him everywhere but couldn't find him. Two and a half weeks later, though, they found Mason waiting for them on their front porch when they returned to the house to look through the debris.


Workers at the Birmingham Jefferson County Animal Control shelter are now caring for Mason, since his owners say they can't take care of him while they piece their lives back together after the storm. "This is probably the most dramatic we've seen as far as an injury in an animal that's survived this long. It's kind of tapering off, the amount of animals we're seeing because of the storm. For an animal just to show up on someone's porch after this time was pretty remarkable, especially with the condition he's in," shelter worker Phil Doster told the news station.

Mason is "doing fantasic" after his May 20 surgery where metal plates were attached to his bones so they could heal, Doster told The Lookout in an email. "We are excited that he will be going back to his family and to the home where he finally returned after 3 weeks," he wrote. Mason is expected to be able to walk completely normally after he recovers in about six weeks, though his front legs will be a bit shorter than his back legs. Mason's family has requested to not be named in the media, Doster added, but they are "very excited" for Mason to come home when their house is again habitable in about five weeks.

Pets are often forgotten victims of natural disasters such as the fierce storms and tornadoes that have battered the Midwest the past few months. The Human Society of the United States has sent rescue teams to find pets in Joplin, Missouri, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and other hard-hit areas.


You can watch a video report on Mason below:



(Shelter vet Dr. Barbara Benhart with Mason: WBRC)

i cried when brian williams showed this tonight on the news...