re: Tornado! Bama - State of Emergency - High Risk Portions of GA & SC

What usually happens in Alabama, at least around Birmingham, is one of the larger school systems cancels, and the rest follow suit. My wife worked for Jefcoed and they have schools scattered all over the county, so they can’t just say “Schools XYZ” is cancelled today, but the rest of you teachers and students have to show up. So they cancel or call school early, and then you’ll have Hoover, Vestavia, Homewood etc all start cancelling as well. I think it was actually Hoover that called it first with today’s forecast. It was supposed to hit pretty hard between 3-5 AM, and it sort of did, just without any tornado activity. I still had to work, but my drive in this morning around 7:30 was pretty hairy. Some areas a light drizzle, others a torrential downpour. You don’t want kids on busses during all that, combined with the normal carpool traffic of parents dropping off, and especially inexperienced teenage drivers at high schools.