Alabama tornado Jan 23,2012

wpr
Preferred Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

My wife got a call from her mother about 4:30 yesterday morning.
She told us that my sister in law and her family had just had a tornado hit their house and destroyed it. They made it to the basement safely but the exterior wall fell on them and my sister in law needed 5 staples on her head. Her husband has 5 stitches on his head plus a broken finger. One of the daughters broke her foot. All in all their injuries could have been a lot more serious.
I thought I would share a few photos of the damage. The weather bureau says it was an EF3 storm with winds of 150 mph. They had one got the almost the same area last April that was an EF5.

So as not to take up a lot of space I put the rest in spoiler mode.

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Nonstopdrivel
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13 years ago

None of the pictures show up.

Zero2Cool
Elite Member

13 years ago

None of the pictures show up.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel

They work for me. 🤷

wpr
Preferred Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

None of the pictures show up.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel

sorry. I posted them to an album on this site before loading them into the thread.
Maybe Zero can fix it. If not follow the link to the album.

wpr
Preferred Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

None of the pictures show up.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel

you are right. I previewed them before I posted and they were fine. After you said that I checked them again and they were fine. I left the site and came back and only 2 of the spoilers work and the 2 that I posted without the spoiler are gone. I tired putting a little more space between the "spoiler" tags in front and behind the the link and it didn't help. I am puzzled.

Zero2Cool
Elite Member

13 years ago

I think he's wrong and so are you. I see all of them just fine.

n00bs

gbguy20
Veteran Member

13 years ago

I see all of them just fine. Hope your family recovers ok.

BAD EMAIL because the address couldn ot be found, or is unable to receive mail.

wpr
Preferred Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

I think he's wrong and so are you. I see all of them just fine.

n00bs

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

I must be. I can see them all fine again but 1 of them. 🤔

Nonstopdrivel
Preferred Member

13 years ago

Odd, I can see all but two of them now. These pictures remind me of sights I saw all the time in Iraq.

I am thankful your family is all intact. The capriciousness of tornadoes never ceases to amaze me. They can destroy the most powerful of things and leave some of the most delicate intact. Drive straw into a tree trunk but carry a baby many miles through the air and set him safely on the ground. Your relatives all experienced minor injuries, but some of their figurines were hardly scratched.

It's always humbling to realize just how weak and helpless those shells we trust in really are against the awesome forces of nature.

I would never wish this kind of experience on anyone. I just hope that instead of driving a wedge between them, it actually brings them closer to each other in the end.

Thanks for sharing their story with us.

Formo
Veteran Member

13 years ago

#10

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Thanks to TheViking88 for the sig!!

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