April 27th...2011

Today started out a beautiful day here in Alabama...
People were just beginning to eat lunch...
Going shopping...
Children playing...some at home and some were at school...
You could hear laughter that morning...

But, around 7:00 am...things began to change for some...
Announcements were being made to have an escape plan for you, your children and your pets...Yes, we love our pets too...

I was asleep due to the fact that I had to work the night before...but this loud, angry noise kept sounding off...til finally I woke up and came out of my bedroom to see my cousin and his family at our house with backpacks and the boys had their football helmets to protect their heads...Family was together and watching...

The television was showing massive storms everywhere in the state...then the weather cam in Ttown...Tuscaloosa...began to show us the MONSTER...
All we could say was Oh God!!! Oh God!!! Oh God!!!

When they showed this the Tornado was so HUGE...the weather cam didn't pick all of it up...
It is said that it was 2 miles wide...and winds up to 180 miles per hour...Sunami in the sky...that was my thought...

In the afternoon hours, the town in which I live began to grow dark...It was headed right for us...All I could do was pray...The winds were so horrible...hail big as baseballs...

It hit!!! It hit!!!  Where!!!  In concord!!!  Oh God please keep your hand on my grandson Hunter and his Dad and other grandparents...Praise God!!! They were spared...As the ones of us here were embracing each other and telling each other that we Loved Them!!!  The wind stopped, and we saw it turn and go toward Cordova...In which that town has been tore up...

Hackleburg..Town is GONE!!!  Phil Campbell destroyed...Cullman...the town is gone...Tuscaloosa...Nothing there but people trying to find a piece of anything that they can find to say..."Hey, I found this..."  And, the tears...the emotions of the great people of Alabama...NUMB!!!

The ones of us that was spared from this devastation...we are NUMB too...We go out and help in anyway that we can...but while helping...when you find a body and all you can think of is...this is someone's child...Mother, Sister, Brother, Dad, Uncle, Grandparent...best friend...and you hear their stories...Everyone in this state has come together in a way that we should always be...

People's things have been found as far as Georgia...amazing!!!  Then I found out that many of my friends are gone...or not found...Then today...Monday, the State of Alabama is in for Strong Line of Thunderstorms today...

There are so many other things that I could put in this post...but due to the respect of some of my readers having lost things, people, FAITH...God will help us to restore...

Sincerely,
thisisPamzSpamz