Damn - that is some serious destruction in Alabama

[malaise]

It hit them really fast and really hard.
Survivors rebuild but they never recover.
Hug your family folks

[DontBooVote]

1. Hmmm...I wonder what could be causing such wild weather events...

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. 170 MPH winds.

Turned into a monster in a matter of minutes.

[malaise]

3. Some people didn't have time to make it to safe rooms

or bathtubs - horrific.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Seems early in the season for these kinds of outbreaks...nt

[mcar]

5. Really awful.

Homes, most especially mobile homes, are not built to withstand this.

[DAMANgoldberg]

6. Familiar with the area...

Spent over 12 of the best years of my life in Lee County AL @ Auburn U. and in the community before moving here to the CLT.

Be thankful that EF-4 wasn't a mere 10 miles North, or it would have been Joplin revisited. Talking over 100K in that path

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. "I don't know where to start"

I checked the broadcast network news tonight. On CBS, they talked to a young lady who lost everything except her family. She looked a few years younger than my daughter. The reporter asked her about recovery. She broke down, "I don't know where to start!"

It would be bad enough with a functioning FEMA.

[Demovictory9]

8. sad. Trump stop tweeting long enough to care?

[Alea]

9. I'm 10 miles from there in Auburn

It was a bad day. Sirens were going crazy non stop. Never imagined it was so bad though until I started hearing about the damage

[peggysue2]

10. Some serious destruction in Alabama and . . .

an historic, 100-year rainfall in Tennessee. Ask me, I know. The area I live in received 10.5 inches of rain in 12 hours. The ground is so overly saturated the water had nowhere to go. Except in my finished basement, 3 inches to be exact. We've just dried the area out, converting other rooms to drying rooms for items drenched in the flood. $2500 later, I'm expecting a carpet cleaner to attempt to rescue the filthy rug in a 1200 square foot area.

Oh, and did I mention we're attempting to move, as in sell a house with the whiff of mildew in the air. Ugh!

But there's no such thing as climate change. Donnie told us so.

[malaise]

11. That is horrible

I feel it for you

And yes climate change is real.

[peggysue2]

12. Thanks, Malaise

The weather down here has been bizarre. Of course, my damage is minimal compared to the storm victims in Alabama and elsewhere; some of those areas were absolutely flattened. Our damage just couldn't happen at a worse time putting us several weeks behind schedule.

It is what it is!

As for climate change? The only way you dismiss it is with a 'don't trust your lying eyes' approach.