Wow, had forgotten about that given all the events and disasters that happened since. When it doesn't impact you personally it doesn't carry the impact, obviously. I sometimes joke I wish a hurricane would hit Georgia coast and blow all the yankees back up north, but truth is I don't ever want to see that level of devastation anywhere.
Thanks for reminder. Where were you when that happened?
(04-27-2016 09:46 AM)gsu95 Wrote: Wow, had forgotten about that given all the events and disasters that happened since. When it doesn't impact you personally it doesn't carry the impact, obviously. I sometimes joke I wish a hurricane would hit Georgia coast and blow all the yankees back up north, but truth is I don't ever want to see that level of devastation anywhere.
Thanks for reminder. Where were you when that happened?
In Tuscaloosa. It passed within 150 yards of me.
I remember walking down 15th street right after it happened.
(04-27-2016 09:46 AM)gsu95 Wrote: Wow, had forgotten about that given all the events and disasters that happened since. When it doesn't impact you personally it doesn't carry the impact, obviously. I sometimes joke I wish a hurricane would hit Georgia coast and blow all the yankees back up north, but truth is I don't ever want to see that level of devastation anywhere.
Thanks for reminder. Where were you when that happened?
In Tuscaloosa. It passed within 150 yards of me.
I remember walking down 15th street right after it happened.
I hope you bought a lottery ticket that day. You're one lucky m---f---er.
(04-27-2016 09:46 AM)gsu95 Wrote: Wow, had forgotten about that given all the events and disasters that happened since. When it doesn't impact you personally it doesn't carry the impact, obviously. I sometimes joke I wish a hurricane would hit Georgia coast and blow all the yankees back up north, but truth is I don't ever want to see that level of devastation anywhere.
Thanks for reminder. Where were you when that happened?
In Tuscaloosa. It passed within 150 yards of me.
I remember walking down 15th street right after it happened.
I hope you bought a lottery ticket that day. You're one lucky m---f---er.
That day, My Sisters place in Guntersville lake had 100 mph straight line winds that leveled a lot of large trees and later while that tornado Hit Tuscaloosa an f3 came through Culman , Arab, Guntersville. A very seriously dangerous day in Alabama history.
It's hard to believe 5 yrs. have gone by. Those were a couple of crazy and really eerie days. I think some people outside the state don't realize just how big it was. The storm stretched from the AL/TN line in the north to Tuscaloosa in the south. It came through in a massive wave, dropping tornadoes all over the place. It killed 238 people across the state.
I was working in the UAB ER the day that the tornadoes came through Alabama. It was like a war zone, but well run. We had the entire trauma staff and their residents there all night and a majority of the ortho staff as well. We had a surgeon and ER doc standing at the ambulance bay door evaluating every patient to see who was truly a surgical emergency, or who was stable enough to wait for surgery. The teamwork was truly amazing and the understanding by the patients was extraordinary.
The charge nurse that day told me that he got to make an announcement over the waiting room speaker that he'd been waiting years to make. "If you are not truly here for emergency care then you need to leave."
My shift was supposed to end at 1am, I left around 3:30 only to return the next afternoon at 1pm. My first patien was a guy who had been waiting for surgery for about 12 hours, but he only had a fracture femur which wasn't life threatening, so he understood the wait.
(04-27-2016 11:53 AM)ArmyBlazer Wrote: It's hard to believe 5 yrs. have gone by. Those were a couple of crazy and really eerie days. I think some people outside the state don't realize just how big it was. The storm stretched from the AL/TN line in the north to Tuscaloosa in the south. It came through in a massive wave, dropping tornadoes all over the place. It killed 238 people across the state.
The Friday after the tornadoes my wife and I went to Lake Martin. My uncle's house and her grandfather's house are 1 slough apart from each other. She started crying when we saw all the destruction that was along the roads, but luckily neither house was touched. We took the boat out and road around for a few hours looking at all the knocked over forest and houses.
I read a great book on an Alabama player who lost his girlfriend in the disaster. He talked about how his faith helped him through. The book had picture inserts and one photo was Saban visiting him in the hospital. Saban looked displeased in the photo. Great book, I recommend it.
(04-27-2016 01:23 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote: I read a great book on an Alabama player who lost his girlfriend in the disaster. He talked about how his faith helped him through. The book had picture inserts and one photo was Saban visiting him in the hospital. Saban looked displeased in the photo. Great book, I recommend it.
(04-27-2016 11:53 AM)ArmyBlazer Wrote: It's hard to believe 5 yrs. have gone by. Those were a couple of crazy and really eerie days. I think some people outside the state don't realize just how big it was. The storm stretched from the AL/TN line in the north to Tuscaloosa in the south. It came through in a massive wave, dropping tornadoes all over the place. It killed 238 people across the state.
The Friday after the tornadoes my wife and I went to Lake Martin. My uncle's house and her grandfather's house are 1 slough apart from each other. She started crying when we saw all the destruction that was along the roads, but luckily neither house was touched. We took the boat out and road around for a few hours looking at all the knocked over forest and houses.
One of the things that has stuck with me wasn't the damage, it was seeing people stranded on the side of the interstate. Let me explain. I lived in Birmingham at the time, but I was in Huntsville when the storm hit because the unit I was in at the time was doing a week long training event on Redstone Arsenal. A lot of north Alabama gets its power from the TVA and their power plant took damage during the storm. This meant that literally everything in that part of the state lost power. The day after the storm I can't tell you how many cars I passed that were ditched on the side of the I-65 from running out of gas as I came back to B'ham. It was surreal passing abandoned cars and seeing people walking and hanging out on the side of the interstate. I don't know why, but that's the image that has stuck with me.
(04-27-2016 02:16 PM)ArmyBlazer Wrote: Here is a picture of the storm cutting through north Birmingham. This is the same tornado that went through Tuscaloosa a few minutes before.
(04-27-2016 01:23 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote: I read a great book on an Alabama player who lost his girlfriend in the disaster. He talked about how his faith helped him through. The book had picture inserts and one photo was Saban visiting him in the hospital. Saban looked displeased in the photo. Great book, I recommend it.
The girl who died was a great friend of my wife.
That book was a total fabrication.
I didn't read it, but what was fabricated?
And, I'm sorry for your family's loss. I don't mean to trivialize anything with flippant comments. It's a part of the internet culture, I'm afraid, to sometimes post without thinking. I apologize for the lottery ticket comment.
One thing I was taught in journalism school by a wise old former Macon Herald copy editor was that 'these are real people we're reporting on and writing about. They have real feelings and they're dealing with very real situations. Never ever forget that when you report on them, when write about them.'
I'm paraphrasing, but I've always tried to keep that in mind. I should keep it mind here as well.
(04-27-2016 01:23 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote: I read a great book on an Alabama player who lost his girlfriend in the disaster. He talked about how his faith helped him through. The book had picture inserts and one photo was Saban visiting him in the hospital. Saban looked displeased in the photo. Great book, I recommend it.
(04-27-2016 01:23 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote: I read a great book on an Alabama player who lost his girlfriend in the disaster. He talked about how his faith helped him through. The book had picture inserts and one photo was Saban visiting him in the hospital. Saban looked displeased in the photo. Great book, I recommend it.
The girl who died was a great friend of my wife.
That book was a total fabrication.
I didn't read it, but what was fabricated?
And, I'm sorry for your family's loss. I don't mean to trivialize anything with flippant comments. It's a part of the internet culture, I'm afraid, to sometimes post without thinking. I apologize for the lottery ticket comment.
One thing I was taught in journalism school by a wise old former Macon Herald copy editor was that 'these are real people we're reporting on and writing about. They have real feelings and they're dealing with very real situations. Never ever forget that when you report on them, when write about them.'
I'm paraphrasing, but I've always tried to keep that in mind. I should keep it mind here as well.
Everything about Ashely
Oh, now worries. I wasn't traumatized. I didn't know her.
I'm a little older than my wife so that wasn't my group.
(04-27-2016 01:23 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote: I read a great book on an Alabama player who lost his girlfriend in the disaster. He talked about how his faith helped him through. The book had picture inserts and one photo was Saban visiting him in the hospital. Saban looked displeased in the photo. Great book, I recommend it.
If so, I apologize for bringing up any uncomfortable memories. It wasn't my intention.
That's the one.
Oh, no worries, it's fine. She wasn't my friend. I didn't know her.
My wife has a different view, as do many of Ashley's friends.
The book was a shameless cash and attention grab. Apparently, he was a total dick to her and was cheating on her the day before the tornado with a Waffle House waitress.
He used her death to help himself. Ashley's parents were not happy, and are not happy about it.
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