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re: 50 years ago (April 3, 1974)
Posted on 4/3/24 at 11:19 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Posted on 4/3/24 at 11:19 am to Roll Tide Ravens
I will try to add some more stuff to this thread later, but I would encourage everyone to read about the Guin, Alabama tornado on the night of April 3rd. Guin is a small, rural town in northwest Alabama. I believe this tornado was one of the most violent to ever occur in the United States since we started keeping records on tornadoes.
Here is an interview James Spann did with former National Weather Service Birmingham meteorologist J.B. Elliott who surveyed the damage in Guin. The video is about the outbreak as a whole, but they spend a good bit of time on the Guin tornado.
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Here is an interview James Spann did with former National Weather Service Birmingham meteorologist J.B. Elliott who surveyed the damage in Guin. The video is about the outbreak as a whole, but they spend a good bit of time on the Guin tornado.
YouTube
Posted on 4/3/24 at 11:47 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Back last year I spent more money than I want to admit on a little book about the recovery effort in north Alabama. It follows the organized efforts of Amish and Mennonite volunteers from OH, PA, MI, etc. who came south by the busloads to help in the cleanup and rebuilding. They were under the direction of the Red Cross and Mennonite Disaster Service. Men, women, and children all came down to help. This book recounts their efforts, but also tells the stories of the people impacted that day.
I like that they had the same issue a lot of folks have today......they had no idea all the small towns on the map and how to pronounce them, or really even what they were called. "Chalybeate School at Springs, Alabama" would have likely been the the school in the town of Chalybeate Springs. There's no town around there called Springs. "Hillbore school house" was likely Hillsboro school. There was definitely a language barrier.....hahaha, or an accent issue.
Many of these same areas would come under fire in very similar fashion almost forty years later. Some of the same towns written about in this book would take considerable damage on April 27, 2011.
Before seeing this book mentioned by a friend, and then finding a copy for myself, I had no idea that the Mennonite community played such a role. It was interesting to read about.
I like that they had the same issue a lot of folks have today......they had no idea all the small towns on the map and how to pronounce them, or really even what they were called. "Chalybeate School at Springs, Alabama" would have likely been the the school in the town of Chalybeate Springs. There's no town around there called Springs. "Hillbore school house" was likely Hillsboro school. There was definitely a language barrier.....hahaha, or an accent issue.
Many of these same areas would come under fire in very similar fashion almost forty years later. Some of the same towns written about in this book would take considerable damage on April 27, 2011.
Before seeing this book mentioned by a friend, and then finding a copy for myself, I had no idea that the Mennonite community played such a role. It was interesting to read about.
This post was edited on 4/3/24 at 12:30 pm
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