A few nice i stock photo images I found:
A60 Stock 5000 at Aldgate
Image by κύριαsity
A60 Stock Car No. 5000 forms Train No. 423 at Aldgate on 7 October 2011.
Photo edited due to Car No. 5000 having particularly bad vandalism at the time.
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Image by snowfoxcreations / ningyousuki
Photos from a stretch of road between Huntsville and Athens. There were lots of places like this, but we only stopped here to take photos. (Athens has electricity, so we went there to charge our cellphones at a relative's house.) The constant texts from the news stations on Twitter and the Red Cross, etc. totally drained my phone dry... Thanks to a neighbor of said relative, I now (temporarily, at least) have WIFI to upload these...
Some of the scenes we passed by are just crazy- trees twisted in half midway, or others plucked up from the roots- scores of both types, and some buildings totally leveled. We went to Tenessee for gas yesterday, and saw a tree that had crushed down into the middle of a house- it felt awful to look at- I just hope that no one was inside, or if they were, that it didn't hit them. :( I hope they're okay...
We aren't having much in the way of typical post-disaster riots and looting, but the counties still enacted a dusk-to-dawn curfew. For the most part, though, everyone is getting along and helping each other. A Publix on the way back from Tenessee still have some power yesterday, and they had opened some surge protectors (which multiply outlets) and placed them in the "lobby"(?) area in the front entrance of the store near to some seats- people were clustered there, charging their cellphones and laptops and things.
By the time we got out on the road, most of the trees- in fact, all that I saw- which had been across the road were removed and/or sliced: Mom said that someone mentioned to her that once the storm ended, all the country dudes grabbed their chainsaws and started hacking the roads clean.
The tornadoes were either small (in size!) or had "fingers", since some buildings/trees are totally leveled, but similar structures only 10-20 feet away are more or less intact. It's just surreal... I'm still having trouble registering this... Please keep Alabama in your thoughts and prayers.
