Pleasant Grove Tornado 6 months later

 

 

I I spent the past 6 days down in the Birmingham, Alabama for the National Weather Association annual conference. On Wednesday afternoon right before sunset I visited the tornado damage path in Pleasant Grove, AL where an EF-4 hit this neighborhood on the west side of town. I was just speechless. I have seen lots of tornado damage paths but never anything this dramatic and this widespread. Mind you these pictures are just from the other day. The images below are before and after from satellite via Google Earth. The yellow arrow marks where I took the pictures from on Wednesday 10/19/11.

                     August 2010                                            April 28th, 2011

This a interactive panoramic view of the damage from the yellow arrow on the map.

These are more pictures from my visit we should never forget what happen that day or the people that were lost.