The Devil went down to 'Bama

[Gnam]

The wind blew...

:eek: :(

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/9592/tornado2011bama.jpg


http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/9960/tornado2011bama2.jpg

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20110427/NEWS/110429732/1007?Title=Violent-tornado-hits-Tuscaloosa

[Ankf00]

yesterday at lunch, tired of auburn & bama trolls douching up every thread on my ut board going back and forth at each other, I posted "alabama needs a plague."

mere hours later... moral of story? I have powers. :tony:

srsly tho, some of the uploaded videos are absolutely freaky. friend of a friend lost their daughter apparently. :\ camera video really puts the total destruction and fright of tsunami & tornado in a powerful perspective. geraldo-style video is one thing, but doesn't come close to capturing the panic and distress from first hand video from ppl fleeing rising waters or funnels, and also a hell of a lot more depressing.

[TravelGal]

Scary stuff. At least with an earthquake (like we have here in CA) you stay in one place (more or less). :(

[dando]

Toll more than 340 as of this AM. The level of destruction is just mind bending. :eek: :( I remember the outbreak in '74, when I spent a good portion of a couple of school days hunched over in the school hallway, which had a glass door @ the end of it and I watched it pour rain while the sirens blared. :saywhat:

Also, I watched Brian Williams and Jim Cantore on NBC News last night talking about this as a part of climate change. :shakehead Then explain why we had a very mild severe weather season last year, folks. Weather is cyclical, yo. That's why we have these things called averages and not absolutes.

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-Kevin

[Kiwifan]

Saw some footage last night. :eek:

Take care if you live anywhere near where these monsters are touching down.

[cameraman]

The NY Times has done the before and after satellite shots usually reserved for tsunami's.

photos (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/29/us/before-after-satellite-images-showing-tornado-destruction.html#1-2-385-372)

[Don Quixote]

The NY Times has done the before and after satellite shots usually reserved for tsunami's.

photos (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/29/us/before-after-satellite-images-showing-tornado-destruction.html#1-2-385-372)Yikes.

[Gnam]

Path of tornados visible from space:
http://blogs.wdtn.com/2011/04/30/tornado-tracks-from-space/

Tornados suck. This aggression will not stand.