Live Breaking News & Updates on Ua Emergency Managementthe University Of Alabama

April 27, 2011 Tornado: University of Alabama to remember Tuscaloosa victims
Share
Updated: 11:33 AM CDT Apr 26, 2021
WVTM 13 Digital
Share
Updated: 11:33 AM CDT Apr 26, 2021
Hide Transcript
Show Transcript
CARLA: TOMORROW, IT’S A DAY NONE OF US HERE IN CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL EVER FORGET. IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE A DEADLY TORNADO OUTBREAK IN 2011. WE’VE HEARD SO MANY STORIES FROM THAT DAY STORIES OF DESTRUCTION, OF HEARTBREAK, AND SURVIVAL. ONE THAT STANDS OUT IS FORMER ALABAMA GYMNAST KAYLA HOFFMAN. SHE WAS IN HER OFF-CAMPU APARTMENT WHEN THOSE STORMS HIT. KAYLA HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS COMING. AT THE LAST MINUTE, SHE TOOK SHELTER UNDERNEATH SOME STAIRS. REMARKABLY, SHE SURVIVED. A WALL FROM THE OTHER APARTMENT FELL, COMPLETELY FEL CAME ALL FED DOWN, AND THEN PERCHED ITSELF LIKE THIS, SOME I’M UNDERNEATH, SO I KIND OF CREATED A LITTLE SHELTER. IT HAD TO BE GOD DOESN’T HAV ....

Scott Atterton , Melanie Nichole Mixon , Stacy Jones , Marcus Smith , Ashley Harrison , Morgan Sigler , Office Of Emergency Management , University Of Alabama , Emergency Services , Ua Emergency Managementthe University Of Alabama , Kindness Student Relief Fund , Cua Center , Emergency Operations Center , Denny Chimes , Tuscaloosa County , Danielle Downs , Kindness Student Relief Fund There , Temporary Emergency Services , Tuscaloosa Tornado , Year Remembrance , Managementthe University , Emergency Operations Centera , Emergency Management , Crimson Promenade , Kindness Student Relief , Emergency Operations ,