TUSCALOOSA: A love letter to the community that helped me recover from the storm
Rickey StokesViewed: 1792
Posted by: RStokes
Date: Apr 27 2016 12:28 PM
TUSCALOOSA:
By Jessica Melton, a survivor of the April 27, 2011 tornado living in Austin, Texas. She would like to send a special thank you to Taylor Holland and her entire Austin family for the encouragement and support in writing this piece.
I didn't sense any danger on April 27 until I tried to pry the Regions Bank door open and noticed the handwritten note – "Closed due to inclement weather."
My mom had called that morning from her job at Children's Hospital to warn me of the storms headed our way from Mississippi and the seriousness of the events ahead of us. I listened, but didn't feel the need to cancel the frozen yogurt date with my future roommate I had set for later that afternoon.
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