A Tornado Rips Through A Building In Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Amazing Tornado Footage In Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Simply amazing. 

At Least 72 Dead As Storms Sweep Through The South

Note from me: Living in Southeast Tennessee, I was directly affected by some serious storms. They came in waves. The first storm came around 9 AM EST, another wave came around 3 PM EST, once again a wave came in around 6PM EST and a final wave hit around 8PM EST. Power has been off for most of the day, coming back on around 5 PM EST only to go back off around 8 PM EST and returning around 1:30 AM EST. At my house, I consider myself VERY LUCKY only receiving torrential rains, wind exceeding 75 MPH and dime sized hail. I have no visible damage to my house, but the people in surrounding towns weren't so lucky. There were reports of many tornadoes, and hail up to the size of a baseball. In my 37 years living in Southeast Tennessee, I have never witnessed storms of this magnitude in my area. Below are a few pictures of damage in my area.

 Article:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. –  A wave of tornado-spawning storms strafed the South on Wednesday, splintering buildings across hard-hit Alabama and killing 72 people in four states.

At least 58 people died in Alabama alone, including 15 or more when a massive tornado devastated Tuscaloosa. The city's mayor said sections of the city that's home to the University of Alabama have been destroyed and the city's infrastructure is devastated.

Eleven deaths were reported in Mississippi, two in Georgia and one in Tennessee.

News footage showed paramedics lifting a child out of a flattened Tuscaloosa home, with many neighboring buildings in the city of more than 83,000 also reduced to rubble. A hospital there said its emergency room had admitted at least 100 people.

"What we faced today was massive damage on a scale we have not seen in Tuscaloosa in quite some time," Mayor Walter Maddox told reporters, adding that he expected his city's death toll to rise.

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Alabama fan arrested on charges of poisoning hallowed Auburn trees

Montgomery, Ala., police have arrested a 62-year-old University of Alabama football fan for allegedly poisoning two gigantic oaks trees where rival Auburn celebrates big gridiron victories, particularly defeating Alabama.

Montgomery's WFSA- TV quotes horticultural experts as saying the 130-year-old live oak trees were hit with a "very lethal dose" of a herbicide one week after Auburn beat Alabama 28-27. The arrest came after the suspect, Harvey Almorn Updyke Jr. of Dadeville, Ala., allegedly called in to a Birmingham-based radio show using an alias to brag about putting killer herbicides in the soil at the spot in Auburn, Ala., known as Toomer's Corner.

[Read The Rest Here Also Includes Video With Radio Confession Of Updyke Jr.]

Tennessee Valley News: Arrests In Local Meth Trafficking

A drug ring has distributed over 2 TONS of methamphetamine in the last 4 years. (That's a lot of dope.) Twenty-Three people are set to face an arraignment today, Feb 12, 2010.

"This was a major source of meth trafficking in the region," Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Neff said Thursday. "It is a very significant case."

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Birmingham mayor says cops 'crossed the line'

This man put several innocent people in harm's way. He almost killed a cop by running over him. I think the people like this should be beaten anyway. He has no regard for human life. Piss on him. Here's a link to the video. The story is here. Birmingham mayor says cops 'crossed the line' article is here. I don't think the officers should be fired.