glad you and your family are ok. i wish i lived near there or i would be right there helping you guys out

 

alot of stores were raising prices like crazy on alot of essential items as well... $5 bottles of water and stuff like that. it was starting to get out of hand but im pretty sure the cops and govt. people have kinda gotten it under control

 

Charlie Sheen was down here today....he donated $1 million.
There is so much free water, food, meals, etc. being handed out I dont know why anyone would buy anything.

Damnit, Tom

 

From what I can tell the looting is very isolated. There is so much devistation spread out. It is like from B'ham area north, every 20 miles there was a F4-5 tornado that stayed on the ground for30-80 miles. In some cases they were closer together, some further etc...
One particular zone I go through on the way to work, there were cops 24/7 for 4 days at all entry roads. I tried to go down one and sight see and some security set up(which I didn't see or I wouldnt have turned) stopped me and wouldn't let me in.

Volunteers in some places have been so plentiful that they are turning them away if they don't have adequate shoes, long pants and gloves. One story of some snow birds from Minnesota heading home stopped for 2 days to help.
I've also heard of more food than anyone could eat at sites.

 

Amazing the difference in how people pick up and move on versus others....

 

Here is a good video of Gary Dobbs on the phone with the local ABC. Dobbs is a retired local weatherman and is calling in to the station what he is seeing. He is about to get hit with a later confirmed F5 tornado which destroyed Hackleburg and Phil campbell before reaching him. This one was at least as big or bigger than the Tuscaloosa storm but hit a more rural area. Huge storms are cool........ on TV in the Nebraska corn fields.

Dobbs survived with his home destroyed. He suffered a few broken ribs etc. I'm sure he had a safe room.

click on the Dobbs Tornado Encounter under weather.

http://www.waaytv.com/mediacenter/local.aspx

 

I thought it was good to see the 24/7 flashing lights in a semi-rural area. Basically saying to not even try.

 

It's a shame that the generosity and selfess acts of most is usually tainted by the actions of just a random few. Yeah "Bad News Sells", but I like hearing the stories that all the Bama boys have been sharing way more than the few of that I've read about looting and abuses taking place.

 

Cool! What's her name? I'll ask Laura if she knows her. Laura (my cousin) was the Hospice Director for a long time before she decided to take a pay cut and get back to nursing directly. Let alone theres only so much of Hospice work one can emotionally handle.

yeh, what Atomic says, Sheen is a winner!!!

Man that's the **** right there. The ****!

This story floored me the other day.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPl...06&m=135812675

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/28/135812...aloosa-tornado

 

#6 was the monster in my neck of the woods. I live right about the I-65 marker under it.