re: Tenth Anniversary of the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak

I lived in NE AL at the time and still do just another location. I remember the morning I got up a little early and saw we had a Tornado Warning for us. I thought it was going to miss us so I started getting ready to go to work a little early. The warning got cancelled so I was getting ready to leave then I heard this weird high pitch sound I’ve never heard before outside. I stuck my head outside to see and I lived on a long driveway that was in the woods and I just saw the trees falling over. I quickly ran to the hall way and just started praying. There was a window raised somewhere near me and I could hear the limbs and probably trees snapping. It seemed like it lasted for a while but realistically it wasn’t that long. After it was gone I went outside and I probably have 30-40 trees down most across my driveway.
Not much later I got a call from a paramedic friend of mine asking if I was ok they were on a call of someone trapped in a home near me. I didn’t hit me that a neighbor of mine was the one trapped. I saw the ambulance pull up so I ran to see if I could help but it was to late I can’t remember what fell on her while she was trying to take cover and killed her. It’s one that no one talks about because it wasn’t one of the big ones but it still hits home to me. Later that day an EF4 came through close to the same track and killed 2 more elderly people about a mile from my home. Crazy day still brings chills talking about it and I was minimally affected compared to many others.