🏈 Tornado in Tuscaloosa - Y'all Check-In!

[BamaJay73]

Praying for the people of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. Glad you guys are OK though.

 

[BAMA74]

Prayers sent!!!!!!

 

[UAgrad93]

Started praying yesterday when the first wave came through. I have several former students and players down there now. My heart aches for those that have been displaced or lost loved ones.

 

[Hardkore]

Glad to know those of you around T-Town are OK.

I came across an article that has a vid showing McFarland.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20110427/NEWS/110429687/0/APA

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Hang in their Brandon; I cannot imagine what you guys are experiencing now.

 

[RollTideWendielu]

Just wanted to say I am thinking about all of y'all in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Cullman, all areas hit. My thoughts and prayers are with you, sweet home Alabama.

 

[EuroTide]

i hope all of ya including your friends and family are alright !

 

[rolltidedrew]

Praise the Lord. I just have to hope that the breakdown in infrastructure and communication is the reason behind so many missing. I pray tomorrow brings better news. Cecil Hurt tweeted that former Alabama football player Shannon Brown's daughter (a UA student) is missing. Remember them and all others in our prayers tonight.

I hate to break the news but they found her but she didn't make it, keep praying for the people around the state, such a tragedy

 

[BamaJay73]

For those interested you can donate here and choose how your money is spent.
http://vad.aidmatrix.org/vadxml.cfm?driveid=2604

 

[BigAl]

Im fine here in Walker County but 13 were killed last night so i here.

 

[porkchop]

I'm glad to hear that everyone is alive and well.

I talked to my grandmother today and she lives in Lamar County (north-west of Tuscaloosa) and they are out of power. My mother lives in Dutton (near Chattanooga) and same thing there. They were told to expect power outages for 2 weeks. She told me that the trees in the area demolished houses left and right. One family has a tree that split their house in two. It looks like there are two structures now instead of one.

 

[JoshB]

one of my friends is going to school at Bama now, his apartment is right down the street from Bryant Denny. he said it looked like a nuclear bomb hit the town.

 

[russb8903]

It was crazy, it came so close to my house. Did an incredible amount of damage all over town. Allegedly Alberta City is worse than the mall area, but no one but emergency crews can even make it back there.

 

[russb8903]

This video does a good job showing the damage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6giQ3csbUg&sns=fb

My housing complex said we probably wouldn't have power for six weeks, and that was getting off easy.

 

[rtauburnsucks]

im a tpd officer, guys pray for the city and its people. tough times ahead.

 

[BamaCore]

Everything up here in Muscle Shoals/Florence is doing fine. Just got access to the internet back a couple hours ago. Like I said, we're good here...but not far from here in Phil Campbell and Hackleburg it's simply heartbreaking. Destruction like I've never seen before in my life. Glad to here that a lot of ya'll and your loved ones are safe. My thoughts and prayers are with all those who've lost so much. This is truly a sad sad day.

 

[rtauburnsucks]

btw, if anyone is interested in doing volunteer work......go to this link, look on the middle of the page. The contact information should direct you to the person in charge of volunteer work. http://www.tuscaloosa.com. Make sure you go through the proper channels to do volunteer work. It becomes extremely difficult to mobilize volunteers that have not informed the city about their intentions.

The city and citizens are going to need as much help as possible.

 

[psychojoe]

If you want to donate money to help, anything you give to Salvation Army or the American Red Cross will be used for its intended purpose.

 

[bamatommy]

I moved from Tuscaloosa two weeks before that tornado. I really hated to see what happened.

 

[rtauburnsucks]

update on some volunteer stuff

Debris Removal 2052485800
main volunteer line 2052485045
EMA 2052485040
Red Cross (Bowers Park) 2055623200
Lost Home 18006213362
Donations 2057587588
Contract Work- Meet at Central High School at 1200 hours on 4/30/2011