One Week After the Storm

There are only two seasons in Alabama; football season and tornado season. Actually football season never really ends here. The teams only play 11 games but the fans talk about them 365 days a year. Tornado season usually takes up about 8 months of the year. There will be tornadoes somewhere in Alabama every week of the Spring and Fall; you can count on it. Kansas has nothing on Bama. The Wizard of Oz was supposed to be based on Dorothy from Tuscaloosa, but everyone knows the wizard behind the curtain of Bama is The Bear. No surprise there, so they moved the plot to Kansas just to keep the story interesting. A white Christmas in Birmingham is the unicorn of holidays. In 2010 Bama had snow on Christmas day. Last winter brought us lots of snow, another oddity in Alabama. Then came Spring/tornado season part 1. Tornado season is always dangerous in our state. Last April it was devastating. All of us have been weather paranoid since April. We did not have snow this pa