Abruptly, the ride comes to a screeching halt. The adrenaline rush subsides. You've just experienced Huntsville's Havoc. Immediately the passengers ask one another, "Do you want to ride again? Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Tornado Valley , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. I am one of those GRITS like she mentions in the book, I was born and raised in Huntsville and her descriptions of the events really takes you back to that time period.
I love her stories, especially when she derails on a tangent, it makes it so fun to go back to a simpler time when kids were just kids without all the video games, tv shows, etc. The area is still recovering from the "Day of Devastation" and probably will for quite some time.
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The trees are still stunted and twisted when you drive I am one of those GRITS like she mentions in the book, I was born and raised in Huntsville and her descriptions of the events really takes you back to that time period. The trees are still stunted and twisted when you drive through the areas, several houses are just abandoned with no windows and falling apart where people didn't have insurance and were too poor to rebuild.
It's truly heartbreaking to see. The rest of the world moves on and sometimes we do too but driving through those areas you really realize that it changed everything for those people who were run over by a tornado. Great book, enjoyed reading it! I enjoyed the way the book was written, the personal stories. I, too, live in Alabama and will never forget that day and night.
Four days with no electricity is all we had to deal with but we also had friends who needed help with clean-up. Lots of kindly acts of service were seen for weeks afterward.
Tornado Valley: Huntsville's Havoc
Feb 02, Leigh Ann rated it it was amazing. Touching This is an amazing story of the good bad and ugly a tornado can bring. I have been through a few tornados here in Ohio. Sep 13, Cindy rated it it was amazing.
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Really interesting memoir of tornadoes hitting Huntsville. Feb 15, Hilary rated it it was ok Shelves: The title suggested it was the story of Huntsville, but there were a number of Shelly-specific flashbacks to her life and growing up, making it more like a memoir that focuses on tornadoes and other natural disasters in Alabama. The other reason comes down to editing: It begins with the short urgency of stories during the tornado, then moved abruptly to a long section about Shelly's life, throwing the pacing off entirely.
There were too many cutesy phrases trying to be clever but which just seemed twee rather than funny. On a personal note, a few things grated because she suggested some things were Huntsville-specific but they really apply to Alabama as a whole. See the "Either this Those sweeping generalizations really irked me. It does show some of the good decisions - and bad ones - that people made during the tornadoes, the effects they had, and how planning can help.
It includes some shocking statistics about the number of tornadoes and the damage they cause, along with stories of families spared, debris scattered, and possessions found hundreds of miles away.
It shows how communities from all over the state, the Southeast and the U. So all in all, if you want to know more about Alabama and the April tornadoes do pick this up, but be aware that it is self-published and contains many flaws that a good publisher and editor would have fixed.
Alabama is the home of the world's deadliest twisters, and Huntsville, Alabama is in the heart of the arena.
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Since I live in Iowa we are familiar with Tornados, and the Tornado warnings and sirens. I've run next door to my neighbors and their basement quite a few times, since I moved to this area almost 16 years ago. But, everything turned out alright, just some rain and wind. I found this book interesting and awarded it 3 falling stars.
This book was also a free book from Amazon and is a part of my Kindle library. The author uses the event a remarkable meteor shower which occurred in as a metaphor for the series of tornados that have plagued Huntsville in more recent times. While not officially part of what is known as Tornado Alley, Huntsville has had several F4 tornados and as part of a cluster of tornados has had two F5 tornados in the same day.
Miller writes from personal experience having lived through these weather phenomena. A witty and humorous writer, even while writing about the chaos and heartbreak endured by so many through the awful tornado outbreaks in Alabama. I would love for her to write some fiction. I'm sure it would be brilliant!
A harrowing account of a major tornado outbreak. Author is very humorous most of the book but middle half of book could have been pared down. Paula Hager rated it really liked it Feb 04, Roxanne rated it really liked it Feb 21, Trish rated it it was ok Feb 11, Lora Ballenger rated it really liked it Apr 04, Andreca Owens rated it did not like it Nov 18, Antoinette rated it it was amazing Jun 15, Forecasters said the storm threat is unusually dangerous because of the possibility of several tornadoes, some of which could be intense.
The storms are the first severe weather to threaten the state this year.
School systems from central Tennessee as far south as Birmingham, Alabama, let out early, hoping students and staff would have time to get home before the storms moved through. He said golf ball to tennis ball-sized hail, which can do serious damage to buildings and cars, was possible.
Severe storms spawn tornadoes, wreak havoc on Southeast US
The University of Alabama suspended operations Monday from 6: Sleeping woman killed when car slams into bedroom. View author archive Get author RSS feed. This photo provided by Johnny Tribble shows a damaged house after a tornado, Tribble said, passed the area in Ardmore, Ala.
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