Poor Weather, to say the least

As I'm sure you all know, the Southland took a beating this week from Mother Nature... thankfully, Atlanta was spared the worst, but we still got some insane rainstorms. My uncle and some of our extended family live in the Muscle Shoals/Florence area in Northern Alabama where three tornadoes touched down. Florence is 25sq mi, so that's 1 tornado for every 8.3sq mi in the city. I was grateful to hear from my Aunt Linda that Uncle Joe (who lives in my grandfather's house) made it out safely with only a few downed limbs. My college friend and sister Erin's family is from that area as well and reported some fairly major damage to the city that mostly culminated in loss of property, not life. Cullman is the closest video that's worth much...



I can't find the one that shows the twin tails of the funnel, but this one shows you the magnitude of the cloud feeding it.

NPR just put out a sliding scale similar to the pre-post-tsunami one the NY Times did showing Tuscaloosa from satellite photos before and after the tornado.

Northwest GA in particular suffered; they've never seen anything like this, and cleanup there and everywhere will take a lot of time and effort.

If you have anything to spare, the Red Cross mostly needs money to support the victims of 164 (confirmed) tornadoes the day of April 27-- please go to their website and donate what you can. Chances are good you know someone affected by the storms.