April Showers

A while back, I wrote about the ineptitude Southerners and Southern cities have for dealing with inclement winter weather.  But something we are accustomed to are the massive spring and early summer storms that roll through, some years worse than others.  This year would be of the latter ilk. In the last few days, the majority of the southern US has been hammered mercilessly with storms, tornadoes, and hail.  We always bounce back, but not without significant loss. 

Alabama seems to have been hit the worst, so far this year.  Both downtown Birmingham and downtown Tuscaloosa, both in central Alabama, were hit by F5 tornadoes.  At the time of this post, 248 have been confirmed dead about 160 of which were in Alabama.  

Here in east Tennessee, we had several smaller tornadoes and a lot hail, much of it tennis ball sized.  Back home in Memphis, much of the city is flooded. Atlanta seems seems to have missed most of the storm, pretty much just getting a lot of rain and heavy winds.  As always, we'll recover, I just hope this isn't simply the beginning to a destructive summer.