I walked toward a man standing over a used Toyota wrenched in two. He kneeled over the car as the stench of something dead wafted from the confines of the backseat. Snap! Mike and Ed’s BBQ sign was so bent, the edges of its border touched the yellow line dashed across the nearest street. Snap! As I walked toward the [...]

Like many University of Alabama students, Emily Fuller decided to head home after the University cancelled finals in the wake of the April 27 tornado. Looking forward to being home and away from the destruction, she packed up and headed to Joplin, Mo. just two days after the tornado. Fuller never imagined that after three weeks of being home she [...]

By Chelsea Pickett   I decided to take the spring semester of 2011 to study abroad in Spain. I was traveling all over the place during our spring break – I had just come from Morocco, through Rome and to Malta. My second day on the island, I finally found Internet in a McDonald’s. I opened Facebook on my iPod [...]

by Dana Andrzejewski   It was 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27 and my boyfriend, Daniel, and I were eating a late lunch watching the tornado rip through Cullman, Ala. “If I saw that headed my way I would probably vomit and pass out,” I told him as I watched the debris and sheer power rip through homes and businesses. [...]

by Lindsey Sykes We really didn’t know how bad it was. We had been sitting in the hallways of Ridgecrest for an hour. I was in the tiny room by the elevators. My mom called, and told me it was getting bad. I told her I would call her when they let us go upstairs. We were all talking, some [...]