The town grew silent as an eerie sound rumbled near Run, run run fast gather the covers go to the nearest shelter , What? No sirens to warn us of the evil whisk of wind that would leave mass destruction on that April night . The ripping and roaring , the sound of a train blowing it's whistle , the ripping off trees from the ground , like a scene from the wizard of Oz , it's massive force carried houses animals and yes people to , from here to there slinging them in circular motion, this beast had no mercy in my town,. It jumped in one place untouched ground next door, it slung the cars so hard they were sticking in the concrete bridges. My God in Heaven have mercy on us . Walking , running screaming for lost loved ones, death and destruction offered the sight of a war zone where we were all on the front line and lost something that night. Trampling over the unseen, the crumbled homes downed trees the bodies of people the sound of sirens the smell of gas the sound of the chainsaws roaring cutting through the rubbles of that remained. It left my town, home of the crimson Tide, bruised and broken and torn to the soul as we lost so much to the tornado that night All we had left now was little to remain. God bless Tuscaloosa
April 27 will forever be engraved in my mind the statistics never gave a final count of deaths last I heard it was over 70. But it left a town full of homeless this included myself.