April 27, 2011 Tornado Outbreak 10pm Newscast

This was the 10pm newscast after the terrible storms had left the area. We really wouldn't know the extent of the damage and the toll until the light of day. I remember driving home and it was pitch dark. I missed my turn down Douglass Road off HWY 53 it was so dark. The flooding was also very bad due to the massive amount of trees clogging area streams. I couldn't wait to get home and see my family that night. So thankful at the same time. The EF5 tornado had passed a mile from my home earlier in the day. The second wave of storms around 11am produced a tornado that impacted our neighborhood with downed trees. The rush was on the next morning for gas and a generator. We were without power for a week.
#april27th #weather #alabama #severeweather #bradtravis #waff48

[@MegaBiker199]

This is the day that got me interested in weather when I was 13 then. Thanks for uploading Brad. Because of this your the only meteorologist I watch.

[@RenBobbins]

This day motivated me to become a chaser. I was completely oblivious to what was going on with the weather that day until we got dismissed early from work. I stood on my sister’s front porch and watched the harvest tornado roll through. Hard to believe, 12 years later, I run toward the tornadoes now.

[@invisiblegamer4392]

Thank you for doing so though so the rest of us can know what is going on while sheltering. I was 14 and will never forget watching the red dots fill up the map as they tracked more and more tornadoes (until the power went out of course).

[@JBARBER4400]

We were in Decatur at my grandmas with our family since she had a brick house, late that night I think around 11 we drove from decatur to Somerville to check on my other family and it was pitch black. It was so eerie.

[@matthewgraham3539]

Sad day