[Sca-cooks] Storm damage ???

[Chawkswrth]

Actually, it was the Crown List that had to be moved. The Woodman of 
the World Camp at Royal, Al, received extensive damage, and will not 
open again until possibly the 1st of June...they hope.
Luckily, the WOW Camp at Evergreen, AL (South of Montgomery) is 
available that weekend.

The Barony of Iron Mountain (Birmingham, Al.) has had to cancel their 
Event for this weekend. The Meadowbrook Camp they were to use is close 
to Cullman, Al, which had 3 tornados go through their area. The road is 
impassable, and every tree is down-usually on a building, including the 
Dining Hall, the Bunks and the Bath House. It will have to be rebuilt, 
from the Ground up.

I'm lucky-no power outage, no trees down, we still have a roof. The 
worst of the tornados passed north of the house. I can't say that for 
the rest of the State. Last I heard, the death toll is standing at 204, 
and they have not finished the search, by a long shot. The President is 
coming to visit tomorrow. That should give you an idea how bad it was 
and is.

I *NEVER* want to go through that again. Ever.

Lady Helen


-----Original Message-----
From: James Davis <firedrake at earthlink.net>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:24 pm
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Storm damage ???


Here in beautiful Berea, Kentucky, we have a lake where our back yard 
used to be, but other than high winds, a lot of rain, and some glorious 
thunderstorms, no big problems.  In Lexington, about 30 miles to our 
north, there were a couple of tornadoes, but no deaths to the best of 
my knowledge. 
 
Most of my family lives down in Birmingham, though, near Lady Helen, 
and came very close to damage, but nothing was hurt except a tree 
falling from a neighbor's yard into my uncle's yard.  One of the 
twisters went OVER one cousin's house, and one of my younger cousins 
lives one street over from University Mall in Tuscaloosa, which got 
flattened.  Scary stuff all around, and some tragic deaths -- 200 in 
Alabama alone yesterday. According to one report, this is the heaviest 
April on record for tornadoes. 
 
I understand Meridies has to move its Coronation next weekend, because 
the campground it got scheduled for was flattened. 
 
Jared 
 

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