Sweet Home Alabama
Posted on May 1, 2011
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Alabama was hit hard this week with the the second largest tornado outbreak in US history. I have friends all over this great state and even some that live in Tuscaloosa. My sister taught PE students at Eastwood Middle school a few years back. Students that went to Alberta Elementary go to Eastwood when they graduate from the elementary school. The tornado flattened that elementary school.
The tornado also came extremely close to the apartments that my sister lived at: Yorktown Commons. But the thing is, Tuscaloosa isn’t the only place that was hit hard. I can’t name all of the towns and places that were hit hard because there are so many. As I’m writing this, my apartment complex in Decatur, AL is still out of power. I’m in Anniston, AL because my family has power here. Driving back home, damage was apparent everywhere. On 67 near Cullman, AL I saw a couple of destroyed houses, down lines, and plenty of snapped trees. I have friends in Glencoe that watched one of the storms roll over the hills behind their house head toward Silver Lakes. That community was destroyed. I have a friend that lives in Huntsville that has some pretty bad roof damage, but some of his neighbors weren’t so lucky.
For all I know it could have been this storm that I captured a photo of from my apartment in Decatur. (There were at least 2 storms, if not 3 that tracked across a similar path).
The fact of the matter is, Alabama was hit hard. Keep Alabama in your thoughts and prayers. This is my home. I’ve never seen anything like this before, and hope to never see it again. Being without power is being lucky from this storm, because it has claimed so much from so many of us.
