F-5

Roy Oswalt, our beloved pitcher on the Phillies, left the team to go make sure his family is ok. he lives somewhere down south MS/AL... so far, all seems well.. Just goes to show, no one is spared with mother nature...

Now back to this historic outbreak

I worked in a crew with Oswalt's father-in-law at Brown's Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens, AL (the one referred to earlier as having to shut down after having power cut to it). Incidentally, Brown's Ferry is of the same design as the plant in Japan that is experiencing all the problems. Having personally been inside the reactor drywall of that plant, an F-5 could not damage the core. No chance. Losing power, however, is the same thing that caused the problems in Japan. It takes power to keep the reactor at a safe operating temperature.

Got a text from an employee in Fultondale, "Man its coming right at us". He's not responding to my texts asking if he is ok.

Power flickering here on the southside of Birmingham....

Yup. Huntsville, too.

I believe there are over half a million people in the greater Birmingham area.

Well over 1 million. The areas that are being hit so far are full of small towns, but the overall population density is actually fairly high.