‘Love is the only thing’: After tornado, Alabamans lean on one another
On a windswept hillside in eastern Alabama, white crosses glimmer in the morning sun. Birds twitter in the nearby trees and a fine coating of dew sparkles on the grass like jewels. Angels’ tears, older Southerners call it. On this morning, in this place, no one would be inclined to disagree.
A week ago, an EF-4 tornado ripped through Beauregard, Alabama, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 100. The violent tornado was one of 39 that touched down March 3 in the deadliest tornado outbreak in the United States since 2013.
Manufactured homes were blown to pieces in 170 m.p.h. winds. Brick
At the Providence Baptist Church‘It didn’t sit right with my soul’
