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The Tuscaloosa Tornado
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:32 pm
There is a show on Weather Channel right now about it. I actually was flying out to Dallas that day and remember looking out the window at a cell reaching up to 50k feet or so. I had no clue what I was seeing at the time. I could not believe what I saw when we landed. 12 months or so later flying up to Arkansas I looked out at Birmingham and could still see the "scar" of that tornado's path.
Glad you Bama posters were safe through it all and hope your loved ones were too.
(Sorry if this should have been on OT)
Glad you Bama posters were safe through it all and hope your loved ones were too.
(Sorry if this should have been on OT)
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:52 pm to flyAU
Remember watching it on TWC and CNN. Scary scary shite. When they showed the tornado in the near distance framed above one of BD's upper decks, we were like - what in the actual phuuuuuck ??!!
Prayers to the families 5 years later.....
Prayers to the families 5 years later.....
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:54 pm to flyAU
Daughter was three blocks away, 12th. Still get chills thinking about that day.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:54 pm to AUTiger45
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:55 pm to nc14
Damn. Wow.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:56 pm to AUTiger45
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AUTiger45
FYI this isn't meant to be a trap thread to get you banned for tornado jokes.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:56 pm to flyAU
I thought James Span would die that day.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:57 pm to flyAU
Ole Miss will write on a football about the deadly tornado then will get their brains beat in.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:02 pm to AUTiger45
This day was crazy through out Alabama. I was glued to the news the whole time......that was a nasty nasty day.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:03 pm to flyAU
Just drove up the Natchez Trace a couple months ago. That thing ate up several miles of the Trace too. Such a horrible tragedy and unfortunately not one that can really be avoided.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:22 pm to tigerfan in bamaland
I lived 30 minutes from it and felt fortunate being spared so I went down there right after with my truck and some chainsaws and assisted with the clean up. It was terrible.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:23 pm to AshLSU
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Just drove up the Natchez Trace a couple months ago.
I drive the Trace pretty often. I checked the distance of damage using my odometer. That tornado just rolled right down the Trace for 10 miles before moving on East.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:37 pm to flyAU
My brother was a freshman at Rose Towers. It was a very scary deal that they lost all contact with the world.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:44 pm to flyAU
Just watched it. It's one of those things I watch regretfully. I fricking hate tornadoes.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:57 pm to flyAU
"Tuscaloosa Tornado" it did the most damage there but there was many many tornados across the whole northern part of the state that day and the particular tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa I believe first touched down near Philidelphia, Mississippi and wasn't fully gone until it was in Georgia. It was the same Tornado that took lives in the Birmingham area as well.
*No Disrespect* at all, I fully appreciate the magnitude of what occurred in Tuscaloosa that day as I saw the aftermath with my own eyes, but so often I see just Tuscaloosa mentioned in reference to 4/27/11 and unless referring very specifically to just what happened there, it kind of rubs me the wrong way because I feel it takes awareness away from the pain and destruction I saw all over the state from the Birmingham area, to Cullman, to Huntsville area, to Tuscaloosa as well.
Again, hope nobody reads any disrespect into this post or any AU vs UA bullshite. I just want people to remember the 252 people that died across Alabama that day, not just the 44 in Tuscaloosa, or the 67 total from this particular tornado.
RIP to all, and I hope I never have to witness a tragedy on this scale in my own backyard again
*No Disrespect* at all, I fully appreciate the magnitude of what occurred in Tuscaloosa that day as I saw the aftermath with my own eyes, but so often I see just Tuscaloosa mentioned in reference to 4/27/11 and unless referring very specifically to just what happened there, it kind of rubs me the wrong way because I feel it takes awareness away from the pain and destruction I saw all over the state from the Birmingham area, to Cullman, to Huntsville area, to Tuscaloosa as well.
Again, hope nobody reads any disrespect into this post or any AU vs UA bullshite. I just want people to remember the 252 people that died across Alabama that day, not just the 44 in Tuscaloosa, or the 67 total from this particular tornado.
RIP to all, and I hope I never have to witness a tragedy on this scale in my own backyard again
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:58 pm to Jalbow3
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My brother was a freshman at Rose Towers. It was a very scary deal that they lost all contact with the world.
I was walking by the dorms in the aftermath. Very unnerving experience. People just sitting on the sidewalk weeping because they couldn't contact their loved ones.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 10:03 pm to flyAU
God bless
God bless
God bless
Posted on 6/7/16 at 10:07 pm to flyAU
I was on campus the day it happened, completely tore apart McFarlane and other parts of Tuscaloosa. I remember going to Publix the day after the tornado left and just seeing other students lined up around the outlets just to charge their phone so they could reach their parents because most of the city was out of power. It was definitely an eye opening experience I'll say.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 10:35 pm to bamaqna
I always wonder when my life will have one of these scenarios happen.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 11:00 pm to BowlJackson
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the particular tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa I believe first touched down near Philidelphia, Mississippi and wasn't fully gone until it was in Georgia.
Unless the tornado was off the ground for a very long time, the tornado that hit Tuscaloosa touched down just to the west of 69 in Tuscaloosa.
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