Tornado Outbreak Discussion

[fishepa]

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Day 3 with no power begins at my house....

[jeremym480]

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Day 3 with no power begins at my house....

Well look at the bright side, you live in Hoover, so I'd guess that your power shouldn't be off too much longer. The rough estimate for my parents house to have power is 2 to 3 months. I offered to bring them a generator but, they turned it down. I'm thinking that after a week or two they will reconsider my offer.

[jeremym480]

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Here's video #2. It's the Piggly Wiggly and the Dollar General. I couldn't even recognize what it was until I saw the soda machines.

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[seasprite]

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Glad you made it through it. What part of Huntsville are you in, I'm in the northeast part near Gurly? I didn't have much damage in my neighborhood, but we don't have many trees either. A couple neighborhoods over had lots of tree damage though. I skipped town yesterday and am staying in Auburn with my in-laws until the power comes back on or until power at my work is restored.

I actually live in East Athens about 500 yards from the damage line that went through Madison county. My parents live in Arab and they left to go stay in Gatlinburg at our vacation house down there so they would have electricity and just to get away from everything. Glad that you are ok as well

[seasprite]

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Day 3 with no power begins at my house....

I feel for you. We were very fortunate, our power has been on all day since about 9 this morning and now our cable and internet is back. I hope that you get yours back soon. If you dont have anywhere to go, you are cerntainly welcome to drive north and stay with us.

[Husker_OS]

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My family's without power as well. No idea when they'll get it back. My dad said he heard 2 weeks. They warned me of not having power for when I'm there to help all next week.

[Scottdau]

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Man what a devastation. My prayers are with everyone and their families.

[TheMatrix31]

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If you dont have anywhere to go, you are cerntainly welcome to drive north and stay with us.

That is freakin' awesome dude.

[Evan_OS]

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Prayers go out to everyone who is suffering from this storm. I'm really fortunate that it wasn't this bad up in Tennessee.

[EUBlink]

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I live in Tuscaloosa, and have been in the Rosedale and Alberta areas today, the areas with the most death.

If you're the praying kind, those are appreciated. We have the VA hospital in the Alberta section of town being essentially used as a morgue. Volunteers that I work with have told me there are close to three hundred, shoulder-to-shoulder laying down in Alberta unidentified. They can't be confirmed because they don't have names to put with them. Holt is the same, but they won't let volunteers to the area because of major gas leaks.

In Rosedale, a quarter mile from Bryant Denny, the Rosedale Court that once housed some 3500-4000 poor is peeled back from the earth. Rosedale and Alberta are the poor, project areas.

I'm truly afraid to say that the numbers showing on television, although in the hundreds, will only be a percentage of what is to come. I live roughly a mile from Rosedale, and we are fortunate enough to have not sustained serious damage. One of my businesses did take a direct hit and is gone, but the employees survived in an office in the middle.

With all of that said, I cannot express in words how truly proud I am to say that I am an Alabamian. I cannot express in words how truly thankful I am. I have seen power trucks and equipment from Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, even as far as Missouri. We are now receiving help even from New York.

Even in this time of despair, we are finding something to truly be proud of. Proud to be American. We come together when it matters most, and that means more, like I said, than words can express.

Thanks for all of the thoughts and prayers. I've had one family member and a few friends pass away during and immediately after the storm, but it will be the weeks and months (and years) following that we truly see the damage caused.

Thanks again for all the thoughts.

[EUBlink]

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On a side note, I can't say enough good about our extended family in Auburn. You can find out why at the link, Toomer's for Tuscaloosa.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toomers-for-Tuscaloosa/127019264041188

You guys rock.

[rspencer86]

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IWith all of that said, I cannot express in words how truly proud I am to say that I am an Alabamian. I cannot express in words how truly thankful I am. I have seen power trucks and equipment from Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, even as far as Missouri. We are now receiving help even from New York.

Even in this time of despair, we are finding something to truly be proud of. Proud to be American. We come together when it matters most, and that means more, like I said, than words can express.

This is the true American spirit. It's just a shame we reserve it for times of disaster.

It's going to be a long, hard road to recovery, but ya'll will get there. Let's hope we are done with the violent severe weather for this season.

[Fredonia]

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I was in Birmingham when this happened... It's just now hit me what barely missed me at UAB, and what destroyed some close friends' hometowns and what it REALLY did to Tuscaloosa... :'( And nothing...NOTHING at my house, which is all I've ever known was damaged at all, but just 45 minutes down the road in several directions...tornado damage and houses destroyed...People's memories...People's lives...lying in rubble... God help those people... :'(

I'm just glad that SO MANY people are coming in to help. I saw power trucks(bucket trucks, electrical company maintenance trucks, whatever you call them) driving in convoys it seemed to get to somewhere to help out...

[SoonerCrazy25]

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My heart goes out to all you guys in Alabama.....i too have lived though this.May, 3 ,1999.my hometown of Moore,Oklahoma was hit by a F5 tornado.they said the wind speeds hit 300 mph.it looked like a war zone......so just hang in there guys......take care and always god speed.

[LingeringRegime]

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My heart goes out to all you guys in Alabama.....i too have lived though this.May, 3 ,1999.my hometown of Moore,Oklahoma was hit by a F5 tornado.they said the wind speeds hit 300 mph.it looked like a war zone......so just hang in there guys......take care and always god speed.

300 MPH. I just can't imagine how terrifying that must be. I live in a house with no basement and no second floor. We had a few scares this past month with some serious hail storms (golfball size) and about 60 MPH winds, but if a Tornado came with wind speeds like that we wouldn't make it.

I am seriously thinking about buying a newer house with a basement. These storms are only going to get worse.