Friday, April 18, 2008
TRIP TO ALABAMA
Last weekend Anita and I made a long weekend trip to Alabama. We attended the University of Alabama's A-Day Football game. We got sun burns but had a good time once we got there. There was rain, tennis-ball size hail, tornadoes, just horrible weather on the way down Friday. It was beautiful in Indiana when we left that morning. But we drove through the hail and heavy, wind-driven rain. Then we heard about the tornadoes going right across I-65 where we were headed. We found a radio station that was giving continuous coverage on the progress of the tornadoes and hail. We stopped several times on the way down to let conditions improve where we were headed before we got there.
But we managed to let the bad weather pass through the area ahead of our arrival. So once we got to Birmingham--the direct target of the storms--things were okay weather-wise. There were a lot of trees and tree limbs down. We also saw electric+ wires on the ground across some of the streets we tried to drive.
The weather was much cooler than I was expecting and hoping for. The flowers and trees weren't as pretty as they normally are in that area this time of year. I am sure this was due to the wind, rain and hail. But I was able to get some good pictures which I am posting on this Blog.
To the right is a beautiful white dogwood. The front of the blue pickup detracts but there was no one around to ask to move it.
More pictures follow.
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