alabama. the lucky ones, the folks who have survived, how are they doing today? reporter: well, there is a lot shock. i mean there s no question about that, brooke. they feel very much like this is not the town that they remember. there are a lot of people who are right now, literally in a weak moment, but they are wondering if they can rebuild and whether they want to rebuild here, because they ler town for what it was, which they say was a beautiful place, a great place, everybody so neighborlism now they look at it, what it is, which is just absolutely gutted and devastated. and the capricious thing about a tornado, they hop scot scotch and they swerve and they move. you can have one home slightly damaged, one home totally devastated and another home that is absolutely fine this street though, it wasn t that way. that was half-mile-wide tornado and it took out just about everything in its path, except when you get over to 8th street there i spoke to beth verden and she talks about