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10 years later: APR revisits victims of the storms


He was working the afternoon the storms struck. 
“My role was to be on television and provide coverage and information, where the tornadoes were and that is where I was, on the weather wall that day tracking each storm,” he said. 
Scott had only been in his current position in Tuscaloosa for about a year when the storms came in 2011.  
“I graduated from Mississippi State from meteorology in 2010 and they don’t really train you to cover a violent tornado coming right at you. That is something you kind of just have to jump into,” he said. “That day, to be honest, was quite a scary day for a lot of us.”  ....

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April 27, 2011 Tornado: University of Alabama to remember Tuscaloosa victims


April 27, 2011 Tornado: University of Alabama to remember Tuscaloosa victims
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Updated: 11:33 AM CDT Apr 26, 2021
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Updated: 11:33 AM CDT Apr 26, 2021
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CARLA: TOMORROW, IT’S A DAY NONE OF US HERE IN CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL EVER FORGET. IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE A DEADLY TORNADO OUTBREAK IN 2011. WE’VE HEARD SO MANY STORIES FROM THAT DAY STORIES OF DESTRUCTION, OF HEARTBREAK, AND SURVIVAL. ONE THAT STANDS OUT IS FORMER ALABAMA GYMNAST KAYLA HOFFMAN. SHE WAS IN HER OFF-CAMPU APARTMENT WHEN THOSE STORMS HIT. KAYLA HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS COMING. AT THE LAST MINUTE, SHE TOOK SHELTER UNDERNEATH SOME STAIRS. REMARKABLY, SHE SURVIVED. A WALL FROM THE OTHER APARTMENT FELL, COMPLETELY FEL CAME ALL FED DOWN, AND THEN PERCHED ITSELF LIKE THIS, SOME I’M UNDERNEATH, SO I KIND OF CREATED A LITTLE SHELTER. IT HAD TO BE GOD DOESN’T HAV ....

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