[modelman]

Thanks joe-haven't heard from you in a while-how have you been doing? No work done on the truck.WHY? 2-weeks ago today-5 tornadoes ripped thru AL..At 6:00a.m. one took a N.E.path across Cullman Co. about 1-mile so. of my house destroying lots of homes and about 25% of the golf course. At 3:00p.m. another one went ripping thru downtown Cullman which is about 1-1/2 miles north of my house and it destroyed 6-churches,1-school, hundreds of houses,restuarants,factories,and everything in it's path. About the same time another one went thru about 45 miles north of Cullman and hit the Browns Ferry Nuclear plant which generates electricity for approx. half of Al. 39 towers that carry the high voltage power lines were destroyed and 50% of Al.was out of power. The city of Cullman was shut down completely for a week. People could not get gas for generators or there vehicles.No one could buy food,clothing or anything. It looked like a war zone with 25% of the city destroyed and will take years to recover. It is a miracle that no one was killed but there were a few serious injuries.Things are slowly getting back to normal but some peoples lives have changed forever. Seems these storms are getting more frequent across our great nation and it's amazing how much damage can be done in a couple of minutes. All our communication tools,(power,phones,internet) just came back on yesterday afternoon.