Carson Tinker’s new book, “A Season to Remember,” wasn’t easy for him to write, going back through the afternoon of April 27, 2011, and how that EF-4 tornado ripped through his house and livelihood....

I walked toward a man standing over a used Toyota wrenched in two. He kneeled over the car as the stench of something dead wafted from the confines of the backseat. Snap! Mike and Ed’s BBQ sign was...

By Chelsea Pickett   I decided to take the spring semester of 2011 to study abroad in Spain. I was traveling all over the place during our spring break - I had just come from Morocco, through Rome and...

by Dana Andrzejewski   It was 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27 and my boyfriend, Daniel, and I were eating a late lunch watching the tornado rip through Cullman, Ala. “If I saw that headed my way...

by Lindsey Sykes We really didn't know how bad it was. We had been sitting in the hallways of Ridgecrest for an hour. I was in the tiny room by the elevators. My mom called, and told me it was getting...

by Meridith Shook I was in the bathroom of my house in the Forest Lake neighborhood when the tornado came through on Wednesday. Early that morning, I had woken up to rain beating down on my bedroom window...

Good people died in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday. They died suddenly, unexpectedly, through no fault of their own. They died at Mother Nature’s hand. On 13th Street, a man pointed to trees that narrowly...

by Bo Black “Don’t go… I’ve got a gut feeling.” These were the text messages I sent to my girlfriend Jessica at 2:51 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27. We both decided not to go to class thinking...

by Abby Connally I don’t know if words can accurately describe everything I’ve thought, felt, and seen over the past two days. On April 27, 2011, my college town was ripped apart by a tornado. My...

When the winds calmed and the skies lightened, I walked into the debris and disarray of the tornado. Less than two hours after an F-5 demolished homes and businesses and lives on and around 15th Street,...

by Jessica Trull Wednesday, April 27, 2011 was a day that began like all other Wednesdays this spring semester. I prepared for my regular, daily routine. I left my apartment in University Village at 11:30...