captdalton

This would be appropriate for several teams and the rant as a whole.

Schools are selling their fields, selling their stadiums, selling their jerseys; who will be first to sell their fight song?

Bo Jackson really stepped up. Nick Saban did a ton. Gene Stallings showed up. A lot of people did. Some celebrities, mainly just neighbors from the surrounding area. With as widespread as the damage was, official responders were stretched so thin. Samaritan’s Purse moved in with zero fanfare and went right to work. Heavy lifting, on roofs nailing down tarps, OSHA had no meaning. The red cross as usual set up in the most visible spots, so they would be visible on the news, and did their usual fundraising. There was some looting early on, but when the national guard moved into Alberta City that seemed to stop. It was heartbreaking. But it was also heartwarming seeing so many people being selfless and volunteering their time, their money, their labor and their equipment. I have no qualms admitting that week changed me - I can’t imagine the impact it had on those directly in the
paths of the storms.

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.

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So you tell me, what does the casualty count have to do with the blatantly false stories?

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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.

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.

I would like to welcome you here with a downvote. We are at capacity on new alters.

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Are you talking about Dylan Moses?

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His career was derailed by an injury. He never got his full speed back after his knee reconstruction. Injury or off the field issues are usually what cause top recruits to flame out. Not Harold Perkins, he just didn’t improve for four years.

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This seems like some pretty wild exaggerations.

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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.

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Highly rated recruits peak in high school all the time, some of them become solid college players and flame out in the pros.

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So you are saying that he had maxed out at 18? He just couldn’t get stronger with a weight training program? Nor could he improve his technique?

That does not seem correct

Harold Perkins is going to put LSU fans in an awkward spot. They will want him to succeed in the NFL so they can brag about him. But, if he does succeed, it will show that LSU wasted his talent. Quite the conundrum for LSU fans.

Yes. The first line came through in the morning. I drove to Jasper to see a customer. I noticed coming into town a couple interstate signs blown down. In town there were a handful of downed tree. I found power was out at my customer and they were closed. My next stop was supposed to be Cullman. I called them and they said they were closing early so their employees could go home. I decided to head home too, it just felt off. When I got home I saw the live feed of the tornado rolling into Cullman. Two tornados crossed hwy 69, the same route I would have taken. That afternoon several of us spent the afternoon at the neighbors because they have a storm cellar. It never even rained there, we shot the basketball in the driveway and watched the weather. That afternoon and evening there were SO many tornadoes. A friend/neighbor who was there is a volunteer firefighter; he got called out because multiple tornados had injured and trapped people in the county and trees blocked many roads.

That night I drove to Tuscaloosa. A couple of the things I wholesale are batteries, flashlights and sleeping bags. I loaded up all my samples, a truck load, and headed toward Tuscaloosa. The triage center was Bowers Park. Coming across the river from Northport near the softball field something was just weird. I realized looking towards Tuscaloosa everything was black. They had Hwy 82 blocked off. I am a Tuscaloosa native so I was able to drive around the city to make it to Bowers. It was chaos with all the emergency responders and shell-shocked survivors. The next morning I met a group of friends and we cut trees all day around forest lake. In the three days that followed almost everyone I knew just hit pause on life and volunteered in different ways. I walked by the house where the baseball team was looking for the white dress for the student killed. It seemed odd that with so much destruction these guys were spending energy rummaging through the debris. I didn’t realize what I’d seen until later. When I found out I cried. I admit that was not the only time I cried that week.

It was a war zone. Over the next several weeks every free minute was spent helping - mainly the forest lake area and alberta city. Putting blue tarps on roofs. Handing out water, diapers, formula, etc. Moving furniture and belongings, salvaging what could be salvaged, from destroyed and damaged homes. The worst thing I found was a dead dog. Many people saw and experienced much worse.

A friend who lived in the neighborhood between DCH and Alberta City was right on the edge of the destruction. He was there as soon as it passed. He saw some bad things. He carried a dead child from a house to the main road where emergency responders were able to get at the time. Another friend watched them find Carson Tinker’s girlfriend the next day. In the day or two that followed when you saw multiple police and EMS converge you knew they had found someone. In the days that followed you also saw spray painted “X’s” appear on destroyed and damaged homes. This signified the homes, or what had been homes, had been checked for bodies. Lots of people had their lives changed by the storms that day. I have tears running down my face now typing this, reliving it in my mind.