re: Tenth Anniversary of the 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak

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talked about enough that was impacted just as much, or maybe worse, as any other part of the state is Northeast Alabama

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the EF5 in Rainsville, AL.

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A buddy of mine was a pharmacist at the Rainsville Rite Aid when that happened. The stories he has from that day are incredible.

Also, my grandfather has a place in Ohatchee on Neely Henry Lake. We went the next morning to check on it as a pretty strong tornado had been reported that night. I'll never forget all the dead horses at this farm on AL177. Then there were Etowah County Sheriff deputies guarding the neighborhood from looters with ARs. There was a team of people fishing a body out of the water across the way. There were three pretty big houses across the water from his place and two were completely just gone. My grandfather's place had one piece of ceramic tile from who knows where embedded in the front door and that was the extent of the damage to his place maybe 200 yards away from those houses that were just gone.

It was all so surreal