darksmoker
Active Member
May 22nd, 2011...i will never, never ever forget that day. it's the day my city was flattened by an EF-5 tornado...today was the 1 year "anniversary" of the tornado...i cant believe its already been 1 year. amazing...and heartbreaking still...
this is what my town looked like last year:
[video=youtube;llfTsF3n2iI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfTsF3n2iI[/video]
i was at home by myself. my parents and little brother were at MSSU for his high school graduation. i would have gone, but they held it indoors because of the high chance of rain, and the graduates only got 2 tickets. yes, i was high when it hit...we lived near st john's hospital, in a neighborhood a couple blocks away. want to know what's amazing? before the tornado, our neighborhood was green and full of trees and houses...after the tornado, i could see the hospital from my house. i should not have been able to see the hospital from there. i knew it was coming, i've actually always been extremely interested in severe weather, so i smoked a blunt and watched out the front door...
didn't see it coming (visually) at all. it was raining too hard and way too dark. it started out as a storm that just kept getting worse and worse and worse. living in missouri, we are very used to tornado warnings and strong storms, but nothing ever comes of it. thats why i smoked a blunt, i wasnt taking it seriously. until i saw the trees, and then some debris...i was so paranoid, thinking that the weed was just making me think it was coming when nothing really was, cause like i said nothing ever happens...well, i went into a closet in the middle of the hallway, and a few seconds later i hear slamming like crazy, it was all the doors in the house being blown open and closed...then an immense pressure in my head, in my ears, in my chest, i thought i was dying...then the house just literally exploded. i was getting soaking wet, because the roof was gone and so were most of the exterior walls.
man. i dont even know. it was insane. walking out of the closet, i could see st johns...everything as far as my eye could see in every direction was completely destroyed. i just stood there and looked for a minute, then tried to call my parents...couldnt get through, all the phone service was out. they were okay though. they took shelter at a gas station. sirens...so many sirens. it was such a fucking nightmare to have gone through that. everything we owned was ruined. my car ended up upside down in the living room, and the neighbor's car was in our front yard.
jeez. sorry this was so long, i just felt like sharing. i dont think many people realize how significant this tornado was. it can happen to ANYONE at ANY TIME...please take tornado warnings seriously...our city lost 189 people that day. 7,000 houses destroyed. 1,500 businesses gone. includung major businesses like walmart, home depot, academy sports, restaurants, churches, schools, hospitals...fucking everything...gah.
i need a drink.
anyone else go through anything similar? in tuscaloosa or birmingham or something? i know i'm not the only person here who's survived a tornado.
this is what my town looked like last year:
[video=youtube;llfTsF3n2iI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfTsF3n2iI[/video]
i was at home by myself. my parents and little brother were at MSSU for his high school graduation. i would have gone, but they held it indoors because of the high chance of rain, and the graduates only got 2 tickets. yes, i was high when it hit...we lived near st john's hospital, in a neighborhood a couple blocks away. want to know what's amazing? before the tornado, our neighborhood was green and full of trees and houses...after the tornado, i could see the hospital from my house. i should not have been able to see the hospital from there. i knew it was coming, i've actually always been extremely interested in severe weather, so i smoked a blunt and watched out the front door...
didn't see it coming (visually) at all. it was raining too hard and way too dark. it started out as a storm that just kept getting worse and worse and worse. living in missouri, we are very used to tornado warnings and strong storms, but nothing ever comes of it. thats why i smoked a blunt, i wasnt taking it seriously. until i saw the trees, and then some debris...i was so paranoid, thinking that the weed was just making me think it was coming when nothing really was, cause like i said nothing ever happens...well, i went into a closet in the middle of the hallway, and a few seconds later i hear slamming like crazy, it was all the doors in the house being blown open and closed...then an immense pressure in my head, in my ears, in my chest, i thought i was dying...then the house just literally exploded. i was getting soaking wet, because the roof was gone and so were most of the exterior walls.
man. i dont even know. it was insane. walking out of the closet, i could see st johns...everything as far as my eye could see in every direction was completely destroyed. i just stood there and looked for a minute, then tried to call my parents...couldnt get through, all the phone service was out. they were okay though. they took shelter at a gas station. sirens...so many sirens. it was such a fucking nightmare to have gone through that. everything we owned was ruined. my car ended up upside down in the living room, and the neighbor's car was in our front yard.
jeez. sorry this was so long, i just felt like sharing. i dont think many people realize how significant this tornado was. it can happen to ANYONE at ANY TIME...please take tornado warnings seriously...our city lost 189 people that day. 7,000 houses destroyed. 1,500 businesses gone. includung major businesses like walmart, home depot, academy sports, restaurants, churches, schools, hospitals...fucking everything...gah.
i need a drink.
anyone else go through anything similar? in tuscaloosa or birmingham or something? i know i'm not the only person here who's survived a tornado.
