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I live in N. AL and we have had 2 real doozies of storms. The one in 1974 destroyed a trailer park. We watched on tv when they were being formed. None of the tv stations had radar or generators. After that storm, all have both. In fact, the 3 main networks stay on the air full time when a storm threatens this area. Some complain about missing favorite tv shows but I think it is more important to know when to take cover.

The one in 1989 hit about a mile from here. My husband was coming home from work and just as he went under a traffic light, all electricity was lost in that area. My former choir director was in a store and it was nearly destroyed and the clock stopped about 4:39. I have never seen such damage. Most of a shopping center was hit and one building was totally destroyed. Cars were piled on top of others, trees were down, homes were destroyed, a school was hit but the kids inside were ok. Checks from here were found in eastern TN.

I was in several, some in Texas, some in the Mid-West. One in Texas,at 10 o'clock at night the sky lit up with lightning, turned green and then the tornado came right at the trailer park, picking up cars and tossing them, blowing mobiles apart that were sealed tight with the air conditioners on.

It picked up the big double-wide of my neighbors that I had gone to to wake them up, and then set it back down. It picked up, made a right turn and broke in half some mature oak trees, and dug a furrow in the ground that we followed for miles the next day. I was praying like crazy, and no one was killed.