Been Living in the Stone Age

[TimC (North Alabama)]

Hey guys, I've been living in the "stone age" this past week with no electricity, email or internet. As you probably know we here in Alabama got hammered by tornado's this past week which cut a path 1/2 mile wide through our city with about 4 downtown city blocks gone as in destroyed. The only thing to do will be to move the rubble and rebuild downtown. If that was not enough 85% of the 100 and 200 year old oak trees was up rooted and not the city is bald, it looks very strange, sort of surreal. Anyway, all is good here at the house, but there is plenty to do for the towns people, which my scout troop will be doing today. I'll try and post some pics later. but if your interested to see what and EF- 4 twister can do here is a video link.

 

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[fossis]

Thanks for sharing, hope you all can recover the best you can.
The storm system started in Ok, & after tornadoes, lightning strikes, & floods, move into the SE.
Fossis.........

 

[packerbacker]

Rebuild!...that's the spirit! Easy for me to say right now but I mean it. Glad to see you can help out and pass that character down to the younger ones to carry on.

 

[naturegirl]

Glad your house is ok, I'm sure your scout troop will be busy for a long time. After an f5passed near here years ago, the trees showed the scars even after people had rebuilt. It was twenty years ago, to look at the area you can't tell by the buildings, but if you know where to look, you can still see the truncated tops of blackjacks that refused to die. It's hard to get used to loss of trees. I know the loss of life and livlihood is worse, but those trees scream silent pain for quite awhile. Bless you for being a scout leader!