Scary Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tornado Destroys the City
I want to start Thursday's blogging by paying respects to the people in Alabama and nearby states who have just gone through a horrendous ordeal. I cannot imagine encountering a nearly 1 mile-wide tornado coming towards me. I received a CNN alert on my iPad 30 minutes ago stating 128 people had been killed with many more unaccounted for by the storms yesterday afternoon.
If you thought the movie, "Twister" was horrifying - when you see actual footage as in the videos to the right and below, the movie becomes child's play.
This has got to be one of the most scariest things to ever go through. At least with Hurricanes we have warning days and sometimes weeks in advance - with tornadoes, the most you have is a few minutes, if any. The tornado that passed through Tuscaloosa, Alabama yesterday afternoon, literally destroyed parts of the city in minutes. In the actual footage shot yesterday (below), you clearly see how powerful this tornado was - it came within yards of the University you see below it. Imagine how students and parents were feeling watching this live from their dorm rooms and homes.
I ask that you pray with me in helping everyone deal with the horrible disaster in the region.
Unbelievably scary. I don't think I've ever been that frightened of a hurricane before and I'm not even watching this in real life. I think whenever I know I'm gonna die or I'm old enough to be dead already; I'd like to go and see one of these in real life. That is, if I somehow don't see one sooner. It is terrifying but utterly fascinating too. How all of what man has made, aside from maybe the atomic bomb, can not compare with the ultimate power of wind and destruction of mother nature herself. To steal a quote from the movie Twister: It is the hand of God.
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Unbelievably scary. I don't think I've ever been that frightened of a hurricane before and I'm not even watching this in real life. I think whenever I know I'm gonna die or I'm old enough to be dead already; I'd like to go and see one of these in real life. That is, if I somehow don't see one sooner. It is terrifying but utterly fascinating too. How all of what man has made, aside from maybe the atomic bomb, can not compare with the ultimate power of wind and destruction of mother nature herself. To steal a quote from the movie Twister: It is the hand of God.
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