Birmingham, AL tornado--April 27, 2011

A 2.5-mile EF-4 (or EF-5,still under debate) tornado cuts through Birmingham. Because the funnel is so large, we don't realize we're looking at the actual tornado until about halfway through the video.

Ways to help: http://magiccitypost.com/2011/04/27/t...

Some friends and I are going to be baking cakes for families and volunteers next weekend. If you're associated with a grocery, mill, or farm and would be able to donate flour, butter, eggs, vanilla extract, almond extract, sour cream, sugar, baking soda, plastic wrap, or cards we can use to write messages to the cake recipients, please message me!

Finally, if you are a nutball (bless your heart), it's ok, but if you use any racial slurs or death threats towards other commenters, I'll delete it.

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[jarrard1000]

I live in Birmingham and i remember this day i was so scared but thank God i lived!

[Jennifer Matthews]

I live in Huntsville. I will never forget this day. I will always remeber how everythig was done and over I went to Publix with my dad and a huge lighting cloud just circled over it. It was a very scary day.

[TheMellochello]

:( I'm really sorry to hear that.

[gdslady1]

I live in Birmingham also and this is one day I will never forget. I left work early that day because I did not want to be away from my child. Most of my family lives in Pleasant Grove and thank God they were ok but there was so much devastation, so many homes destroyed , lives lost

[ErinDestroyed]

What you're watching is my entire town (Pleasant Grove) being eaten alive. I'm still here. Some of us aren't. Don't know how I stumbled upon this, but I could easily throw up now.

[AmpdPersonification]

Over 200 people died in Alabama from this tornado.

[Mega143mb]

i was an victim

[bff277]

omg me too

[Localonthe8s]

God called in sick on your birthday. Lucky you

[Smosh368]

Plus I live in Birmingham :O

[Smosh368]

This tornado happened on my birthday