A Scary& Sad Day April27th,2011

Well on Wednesday April 27th,2011 at around 6:50 am or so ,We had some 100 mph striaght lines winds come through where we live.It caused the power to go out & we did not even realize that it was getting worse b/c we did not have any power and our weather radio did not have batteries in it.We had no power so we listened to the am/fm radio that luckily had batteries in it. We all had to pay attention to the weather that day b/c it was only gonna get worse. We live in a trailor,my husband ,myself & our lil girl .But luckily my dad lives next door &my dad has been working on building a storm pit for his trailor ,so we all went over to my dad's & watched his tv,with a generator. This was when the storms began getting a lot worse.We watched as a tornadoe hit in the county that my sister lived in Cullman County.This was the start of a devistating day in our great state of Alabama.The second tornadoe the news showed was hitting in Tuscaloosa.There were tornadoes hitting everywhere & there were some F3's,F4's, & F 5's.Our county was hit but it was a few miles from our house b/c we could see the funnel going across ,as we ran into the storm pit. We were all scared & had no clue that in our county,we would lose 14 ppl from this storm.This was the day that many tornadoes would hit our state and 1 tornadoe traveled 182 miles across the state b/c it left a scar that long across Alabama.This was a terrible day and we lost more that 250 ppl have been comfirmed in Alabama alone. And there are many people that are Missing from our state. The whole southern half of the country seemed to feel these storms but Alabama was a total disaster area. Fema has been here ,The President of the Untied States has been here, alot of political people have been here. Actor Charlie Sheen visited  and was wanting to help out to.This has been so heart wrenching for our state,and the great people who live here.My family had a few trees down & we had to do with out power for almost 5 days but we all were blessed & lucky this time.The storm was near us but spared our family & friends. I am not sure why these things happen to people.I do not think really any of us can answer that question .My heart hurts for all of the families whom have lost their loved ones,or whom have a missing person and or all those who have lost everything that they owned. This has been so traumatic for our state.The stress is intense and the tears have been pouring down.I can only keep everyone in my thoughts & prayers as they try to pick up their lives and try to move on."Please God Bless Alabama & take care of these people that have been affected & let them know ,that we will never forget ."