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Apr. 28th, 2011 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxThey're now saying 125+ died in the state yesterday. 68+ of them in Tuscaloosa. Looking at the video footage of where, it's astounding how close it was to the University (the video above was taken from a building at the university). Still haven't spoken to my nephew --who lives off campus-- but he's texted that he's fine. Looks like T-town is out of water and power and that damage is...well... catastrophic.
The F-5 did hit Birmingham, bit it was the Northwest side of town and I'm 'over the mountain' in the Southeast. If you only went by what I experienced directly, it wouldn't even seem like a bad storm. I got a little rain and heard thunder in the distance. I didn't even have high winds. Tornadoes are just such bizarre things.
My internet is out at home (and so is my phone, which is bundled with my cable) but to contemplate complaining about that feels obscene.
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Date: 2011-04-28 05:55 pm (UTC)It's really rather surreal. It wasn't even windy enough at my house to disturb the roses. Weird.
No one from my office had any damage, though many are without damage. I didn't even have that. I had power the whole time and cable television. I only lost internet and phone.
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Date: 2011-04-28 04:10 pm (UTC)There's no time to try to clean up or assess the damage because here comes another storm.
We're having thunderstorm and heavy rain and gale force winds over and over and over.
Enough already!
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Date: 2011-04-28 04:35 pm (UTC)Glad to hear you are safe. Sorry about the cable/phone outtage.
(reminding me of why I keep turning down time warner and verizon who want to bundle the three.)
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Date: 2011-04-28 05:17 pm (UTC)Know that Missippi used to get a lot, but Alabama, Kentucky, and the Carolinas??? Very weird.
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Date: 2011-04-28 05:56 pm (UTC)Yeah. Alabama gets a ton of them. I had a continuing ed thing recently on tornado shelters (because Alabama recently passed a statute that all new schools must have them, we're the first in the country to require them) and they showed the map of tornados on the globe and stretching from Texas through Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia up through tornado alley in Kansas, Oklahoma, etc. it's roughly 80% of all tornadoes in the world. It's being sandwiched between the Gulf of Mexico and Canada that does it.
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Date: 2011-04-28 04:58 pm (UTC){{{*Hugs*}}}
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