Poor town of Tanner, Alabama got nailed twice within 30 minutes by back-to-back F5 tornados.
My hometown of Guin, Alabama was decimated, but our tragedy is completely ignored.
Today the Guin Baptist Church held a memorial service for the victims. Twenty eight people were killed in our tiny town. James Spann attended today’s memorial.
My dad was the Police chief and had the grim job of identifying the bodies; Some were close family friends. He never got over that ordeal. I believe that’s one of thr reasons that he died suddenly in 1979 at the age of Fourty Nine.
The story of Guin was featured on the History Channel, but people seem determined to ignore the incredible impact of the tornado in Guin.
The tornado was an F-5, but experts stated that it eas closer to an F-6.