Tuscaloosa Strom

Students of the University of Alabama hunkered down like a massive, mile-wide tornado came less than a mile from the campus that houses thousands of people.
Journalism student Aldo Amato took refuge with the rest of the people in Reese Phifer, a building adjacent to the famous stadium Bryant-Denny.
"It sounded like they describe it as a freight train," he said.
Junior Michael Neese, a business student, was even closer to the path of destruction that left the city blocks leveled.
"It was like a white cloud just spit in the parking lot next to me," he said.
He was in his apartment, and it was close to normal, where it ends and great destruction begins.
He said he lost power and fled into the concrete stairs in the middle of its potential.
"All of the 15 th Street is no more," said Neese.
Amato said the students and watched and waited, they usually stoic professor started to get over the edge.
"This is the most excited and less confident, Chris Roberts, I have seen. He was definitely nervous," he said one of his professors of journalism.
"Everything started to pray, panic," he said.
Most students, he said he thought the storm would not do anything just as two storms earlier this month, which crashed in Tuscaloosa.
"I could not believe it landed," he said.
He said the professor told students to say their last words, and a girl crying.
It was even worse, because from their point of view, watching on television the storm inside the building, he said that he looked like a tornado was headed straight for them.Reports soon began to trickle in debris from planting Tuscaloosa over 100miles away in Gadsden, AL.
Construction of the visible falling from the sky, as news cameras watched a wedge tornado, still on the ground, shoot towards the densely populated city Birmingham, more than 50 miles.
Tornado barely skirted around the north of Birmingham.
Amato said that at this point, most students were just trying to find power and Internet access.
Neese said that the students were rushing to Publix on campus, who miraculously have electricity, to buy food and beer and hang out and stay cool in air-conditioned building.
University of Alabama canceled classes Thursday and Amato said the school opened a recreation center for students of storm victims and offered counseling.
For now, he said he was going to keep trying to get in touch with his father, who lives in the northern part of the State in Huntsville, which was also hit by tornadoes earlier in the day.
He said it was difficult, because mobile phone reception was spotty, and he could only get occasional incoming phone calls.
"I could go to my local church and see what services are needed."