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Send your wishes to the victims of this Historic and Horrific Disaster in the South:

From the lens The Alabama Tornadoes: April 2011.

If you are a lensmaster who resides in the State of Alabama, please share how this storm has impacted your life. You are welcome to leave a link to any website you have created about this disastrous day in our beloved "Heart of Dixie".

If you would like to donate to the storm victims through the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, you can click right here to give to "Neighbors in Need". If you wish to learn more about this project, click here.

As stated earlier on this page, I am giving any money earned from this lens to the American Red Cross. It is not on the official list of Squidoo Charities, so you will just have to trust that I will do as I promise.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and prayers for my beloved state and all the victims of Mother Nature's Storms.

  • clickityclack Dec 21, 2011 @ 11:04 am | delete
    Great lens!!! I live in Birmingham and will NEVER forget April 27, 2011. It is common for us to have severe weather in this area, including tornadoes, but I have never lived through a day like April 27th. We knew it would be a bad weather day, but no one could have been prepared for the ultimate devastation that spread across our state throughout the day. The helpless, gut-wrenching feeling I experienced that day in my basement while watching live video of a mile wide tornado literally obliterating parts of Birmingham as it headed DIRECTLY toward me, is one that I pray I never experience again.
  • JaguarJulie Nov 13, 2011 @ 7:38 am | delete
    OMG, my dear ... can we gals talk? Is it not the tornado that scares you silly? Well, I am a pretty brave kind of gal, but a tornado ... such powerfully horrific destruction. It kind of leaves me speechless ... kind of ...
  • MorningShine Nov 11, 2011 @ 12:34 pm | delete
    A powerful story. Good job.
  • ideadesigns May 31, 2011 @ 8:14 pm | delete
    Sorry that it hit so close to home. It's just sad all the devastation. So many storms this year. Everyone still cleaning up and will be for a long time. People really pull together and help out in these times. Praying for God's comfort and peace.
  • AngelDey May 24, 2011 @ 8:18 pm | delete
    I lived for 22 years in Alabama and Georgia and don't remember so much devastation. I remember only one year, really, when we suffered a bunch of damage but nothing like what seems to be happening more and more often. I live in the desert now and have had more rain and wet stuff than I've ever seen out here in the last two years. When people scoff at climate change, I get so mad because they clearly aren't paying attention.
  • tal191 May 7, 2011 @ 8:37 pm | delete
    so sad!!I'm so sorry for them!
  • jamesnodturft May 4, 2011 @ 9:56 am | delete
    My heart breaks for these people.
  • JDWheeler May 2, 2011 @ 2:45 pm | delete
    It is unreal. The pictures you see don't do it full justice. Pray for all those touched by this act of nature.
  • JoanneOtt Apr 30, 2011 @ 12:43 am | delete
    i am so sorry to hear about this, it's really devastating.
  • ChrisDay Apr 29, 2011 @ 11:38 pm | delete
    I was thinking of folk over there and, because I don't watch television or have a newspaper, I had seen no pictures. My thoughts are with those whose lives have been ripped apart by this natural devastation. Nature is a hard master.
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Apr 29, 2011 @ 9:50 pm | delete
    Well done lens. Last week in Raleigh, when we had ours, 4 kids were killed in one house.
  • vallain Apr 29, 2011 @ 7:58 pm | delete
    My sympathies to those who have lost loved ones and homes or businesses. We experienced a tornado in my hometown (Kansas) when I was in 5th grade. Sadly 13 people lost their lives that day. The power of a twister is awesome.

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