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    3. Hey Robert,I saw that, pretty amazing. But there is absolutely no way to even comprehend this damage without seeing it. Every neighborhood I go into, seems worse than the other. You can count the trees left, on your fingers. AND>>>this was a city of huge tress. hence...the name, Druid City. Yesterday I went looking for the places my son and wife lived after getting married while still students at the U.of A. They wanted to live off campus...because they had a dog and cat by then. One house they lived in was in an old historic area, called Forrest Lake...beautiful homes...and tress probably hundreds of years old...lots of tress...and adjoining a large neighborhood, (several streets and avenues) of nice medium sized houses, built mostly after WW2.There is nothing left but rubble and now, the newly cut trees, to partially clear the streets enough for one vehicle to get through them.So much debris on the ground , they still ask that people stay out.Broken off trees with a stubby limb or two left down low, looks like what our kids used to draw on halloween. This is the same through about twenty of our neighborhoods.A friend of mine in Hillcrest...lived in the culdesac....in a brick house..sort of in the edge of the tornado.some of the front part, away from the onslaught, was left, (She was asleep and escaped injury other than cuts and bruises from flying glass, etc. But they have not found a piece of the whole garage side. They are going to bulldoze it, I think, like hundreds more. now, added to all the piled up trees you see any household furniture added to the curb. Very sad. Tuscaloosa will never look the same.I am dreading seeing apartments, condos etc, replace these nice homes and pretty gardens. I guess if we live long enough, we will see change. I enjoy the posts. Stella

    05/17/2011 11:49:52