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Tuscaloosa Damage Aerials – Parts 3 and 4

Mostly from rural Northeast Tuscaloosa County…

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Tuscaloosa Damage Aerials – Part 2

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Tuscaloosa Damage Aerials – Part 1

First of many unedited AirLink 33/40 videos I will post here in coming hours. Will have helicopter video from Hackleburg, Cullman, Birmingham, and Cordova as well…

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Tuscaloosa Suitcase Found in Jeff Co

Amazing story here… a suitcase (not a paper or book!) from Tuscaloosa was found by a family in the Virginia Mines community in western Jefferson County… the suitcase was aloft for almost 50 miles.

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Calm Weather

Won’t be able to produce a Weather Xtreme video this afternoon due to the ongoing recovery situation and extra duties. Bottom line is that we will have dry weather through the weekend; sunny days, fair nights. We warm back into … Continue reading →

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Chopper Video Of Tornado Damage

Here is a direct link to the ABC 33/40 site if you can’t see the embedded video below…

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John Brown Video

The Tuscaloosa tornado from the camera of ABC 33/40 Skywatcher John Brown…

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Your Pictures

They tell the story better than we can.

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From Bill Castle

My long time associate and ABC 33/40 Chief Photographer Bill Castle just landed from flying the track of the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham tornado. He has seen it all over the years, and just told me this looked much worse that the April … Continue reading →

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Needs Are Great

We just received this message at 7:10 this morning; a reminder that search and rescue operations are still in progress this morning. There is so much work to do. “I am writing to because so many of my friends and … Continue reading →

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