The Magic City dodges a big bullet

At 1:00 a.m. it looks like the storm has passed us. It never really got that bad here in Birmingham. The wind did blow and there are limbs down around the neighborhood, but from the radar shows, the most intense part of the storm that was the eye, passed us to the west and hit areas on that side of Alabama much harder. Right now its in Tennessee as you can see from this radar image.

From what we reported from the newsroom tonight, there was no widespread damage in our metro area. My sister lost power in Southside for a while then it came back on. K said our power flickered many times. I will have some pictures tomorrow of what the storm debris looks like here. I think I can safely say were lucky in dodging one of the biggest storms of the past century to hit the Gulf Coast. Some folks in south Alabama and south Mississippi weren't so lucky.



Comments

mojoala said…
you got spammed hard!

4 of dem!

Was not too bad here, with exception of nearly 40 tornado warnings across the state.
9:42 AM
Brooks Brown said…
damn spammers!

glad to hear you are okay mojo

i am surprised at how little damage my area sustained. when i woke up and looked outside all i saw was a large branch down in one of my neighbor's yards and that was basically it.
12:44 PM
cmhl said…
we didn't really get as much as they were predicting either--- they cancelled all the schools here-- LAST NIGHT (ha)-- but I suppose that was a good idea. we got a lot of heavy wind, but not a lot of rain. we do have one tree down, and a lot of limbs.. could have been a lot worse, that is for sure.
7:47 PM
Speed42 said…
It was very sad to see places Christina and I had stayed in New Orleans and Biloxi totally devastated.

And then hearing of my home state of Mississippi suffering the worst of the storm, with more than 100 dead in Biloxi alone, it's quite upsetting.
11:29 PM
Brooks Brown said…
I hear ya Chris. It's surreal seeing familiar landmarks scattered casually around the landscape like a child's toy. The film footage of Gulfport, Biloxi, and New Orleans is just so hard to comprehend. Not to get on too much of a politican side note, but I hope we have enough National Guard troops still here in our country to help all those places because this it is going to take years to restore life as thousands of people on the gulf coast knew it and the hell that is breaking loose in New Orleans with the looting and shooting is making that place seem like complete bedlam. Glad our president decided to cut his extensive vacation short for the occasion.
12:07 AM
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