By Tanya Mikulas
UA Tuscaloosa
Class of 2015
On April 27, 2011, at 5:13 PM, an epic tornado destroyed a significant portion of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I saw this monster with my own eyes from my home, which was only half destroyed, in Forest Lake neighborhood – which was mostly decimated. I lived in the rubble of my neighborhood throughout the entire cleanup process and the beginning of the rebuilding. This was my daily life while I was in graduate school.
My Tornado Diary
Table of Contents
Intro: April 27, 2011
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intro page 4
intro page 5
Chapter 1: The Last 3 Days of April 2011
—April 28, 2011
—April 29, 2011
—April 30, 2011
Chapter 2: May 1
—May 2
—May 3
—May 4
—May 5
—May 6
—May 7
—May 8
—May 9
—May 10
—May 11
—May 12
—May 13
—May 14
—May 15
—May 15 BONUS page, Forest Lake before and after the tornado: a comparison
—May 16
—May 17
—May 18
—May 19
—May 21
—May 22
—May 23
—May 24
Some other interesting links from Tanya Mikulas:
2012 Full Moon Emerging Artist Tornado Photos – this gallery is featured by the UA Art department in the 4/27/2016 remembrance issue on the 5th anniversary of the storm.
About Tanya Mikulas, photographer
oxidation
The UA Arboretum Spring 2012 Archive
who I am, in real life
my blog from the days I lived in Forest Lake after the tornado
Dr. T Phonetography 