re: Alabama tornado discussion and links

how do you figure it's a God thing???

I'm afraid of hurricane season

Hurricane season has everything to do with where the storms hit. 1992 was one of the weakest, most inactive seasons ever recorded yet a memorable one when Hurricane Andrew hit. Not having a named storm until late August is almost unheard of. The ideal season would be a repeat of last season. No really bad U.S. landfalls but a couple of named storms hitting S Texas and slowly moving inland so drought stricken Texas gets dumped on with heavy rain

Just spent the last couple of hours going through this thread from start to finish. Wow.

As fate would have it, my family drove up from Pensacola to Iuka, MS on Tornado Day. We'd been planning the trip for months, and I'd heard the weather was going to be hairy, but I figured we'd miss most of it. . .which we did, sort of. Saw the storm that hit outside of Moulton from several miles away as it crossed AL 157 to our west. . .stopped several times in the more intense squalls, with an eye out for funnels. . .had missed the B'ham and Cullman storms by a hour or less on our way up. . .we were damned lucky. Much more so than many of those we drove by.

Having lived most of my adult life in hurricane-prone areas, and haven ridden out a half dozen or so, I can appreciate what all of y'all are going through - especially my brother and sister Rantards in and around Tuscaloosa. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, as will be our $$$. Thanks for all of you who posted the donation links in this thread.

Here's a link to some before/after satellite imagery of the T'town storm, courtesy of my friends at PBS. Words fail.

Before/After

Those are some incredible pics. That son of a bitch was massive.

Glad you are okay man, I would love to see your pictures.

I went to Tuscaloosa for the baseball game this weekend. Seeing the wreckage up close was incredible. Watching the coverage on tv for a week and a half did nothing to soften it.

Not only tuscaloosa, but many cities have been impacted in most of central and north alabama. My prayer are sent for everyone who live in Alabama.

I am deaf survivor of massive power outage that last 4 days (EF5 Twister took major tranmission power line out in Limestone county that caused massive power outage to Huntsville area), but it is so tragic that one twister hit most of Tennessee Valley, killed about 70 people by one Twister for 132 miles, EF5. Only 8 people were killed by this twister in my home county Madison.

My deaf friend live in Tuscaloosa, she survived but lost her home (apartment destroyed).

My deaf friend Jerry's Son Jason Smith was in Piggy Wiggy in Harvest when EF5 hit, he survived but Piggy Wiggy is destroyed. I saw big twister moving in distance before it hit Harvest area, about 10 to 25 mintues north from my home.

My ex girlfriend who left me the day before she lost her home by ef4 twister in Sipsey, Alabama (near Jasper). It is still sad to see some of my friend and my ex lose home, love one.

My high school friend, Toby Kreider lost sister-in-law Michelle Pearson Kreider and sister-in-law's two children in Concord, Alabama, his brother survived. They were killed in torando that came from tusacloosa.

It is tragic that over 200 people killed in alabama. Prayer are sent out for everyone that lost love one, lost home, etc.

I am thankful that most of my friends and family are safe and ok from that deadly tornado outbreak.

We will united together, no matter if someone is alabama fan or auburn fan, but we come together as one state, Alabama. This is our home, our state, we will work together and rebuild everywhere to get back on track w our life, it will be long road to recovery. God bless everyone.


This is the day I will never forget, because it did impact me and my life. I never wintess two twisters on the same day in my life, that was first time I ever experience it, and it was deadly tornado outbreak for state of Alabama.