The approaching monster pulled the moist, warm air away and into itself to use for fuel. At that point I had trouble getting my breath, caused by the changing air pressures. He had earlier grabbed a mattress off the bed, and now he hoisted it over our heads and closed the door to the bathroom. We’d all put on our headgear, old motorcycle helmets for Mom and me, worker’s hard hat for Bill. The tornado siren was wailing, and that roar, which really did sound like a freight train, increasing. It would be weeks later before he told me this. Bill saw the tornado, picked up by the town’s tower cam and displayed on TV, and heard the meteorologist say that it was crossing Highway 359, just before he came into the bathroom. Bill had a rescued dog living in Mom’s fenced yard with a heated garage and a specially built “pup-tent”, but there was no time to get this unruly stray into the house. There just wasn’t time to chase the three of them down at that point. The cats knew, and were running under beds to hide the one cat Bill was able to nab and hand to Mom wriggled out of her grasp and ran again. I entered while he set Mom up with an emergency oxygen tank. Right after the weathercaster said a tornado was tracking towards downtown Tuscaloosa, Bill began to get us into the bathroom, over Mom’s objections. We didn’t open the windows, because the current advice says not to do that.
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Soon radio and TV announcers said that a major storm with a probable tornado was headed our way. The sky was heavily overcast but the weather was strangely calm at that time. We arrived at my Mom’s house in the Forest Lake neighborhood about 4:30 in the afternoon. There was no time to take our two cats with us as we always had when fleeing storms.
This was hasty and difficult due to my medical condition. We’ve been through hundreds of weather alerts and nothing ever comes near us, and somehow we didn’t really expect it.īut that day Bill felt he detected something menacing and he came back to get me and took me into town, an unplanned trip. We’ve had close calls when twisters tracked near us, but we’ve never been hit.
He could feel something wrong in the ways the winds were gusting around. Bill had an uneasy feeling later that day when he went into Tuscaloosa to care for my elderly Mom and then went to the store before the afternoon storminess was due. As the storms draw closer, the tracks can be narrowed down, but specific pinpointing usually occurs at the last minute.
Weather personnel never know until the last minute exactly when and where tornadoes will form and exactly where they will go they can only say conditions will be favorable for severe weather. Later we learned that five people were killed in Alabama during this early morning outbreak. We wouldn’t know until about a week later that the storm we heard included an EF3 tornado that touched down in Coaling, a community only a few miles down the road. We heard later that the train had been stopped by downed trees somewhere. We knew that whatever had happened, it was over for our locale, for that instant. TV weather maps with radar images, (we still had our power), along with a ‘feel’ gained from years of severe weather alerts, guided us. Once the storm noise faded, we went back to bed to get rest for the predicted rough day. We grabbed various helmets for head protection and went to the strongest part of the house.
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The day’s storms really started around five am, when we were awakened by a high wind and a long series of rapid thunder cracks sequenced like machine gun fire. But it has knocked almost every other preoccupation out of my mind. This is the story I never wanted to write. The night before, I saw a sweet little tree frog on our glass front door in the country. The swell of gratitude in my heart exceeds all powers of expression. The kindness and generosity of family, friends, and strangers goes beyond my capacity to praise in paltry words. Please note that these pages have spoilers for the series.Dedicated to the people of Alabama all others affected by disasters and to those who were lost on April 27th, 2011. The show's pilot can be found after the end credits of Bravoman Episode 6 - Laser Mummies From Beyond the Moon via re-uploads. The two Mappy extras (Volume 1 and Volume 2) both can be found via re-uploads on the "ShiftyLook Forever" channel. There are multiple re-uploads on YouTube done by fans. As a result, the episodes are no longer available through official means. Mappy: The Beat (also referred to as the Mappy cartoon or just Mappy) is an animated web series created by Kris Straub and Scott Kurtz and produced by ShiftyLook, a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings.įor the game, please visit Mappy (Namco Wiki) or Mappy (Wikipedia) Characters CharactersĪfter ShiftyLook's closure, ShiftyLook's YouTube channel and website went down.
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