NINE YEARS AGO TODAY: I still don't have the words to describe the generational tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011. In Alabama, 62 tornadoes touched down. A total of 252 were killed, over one thousand more injured. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg is a gifted writer, and his words in Southern Living written after that horrible day perhaps are appropriate: "Where the awful winds bore down, massive oaks, 100 years old, were shoved over like stems of grass, and great pines, as big around as

Video of the strongest tornado to impact our area on April 27th, 2011. The Hackleburg–Phil Campbell EF-5 tornado. | Wes Wyatt WBRC