JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. —Storm damage clean up continues in two areas of Jefferson County.
Things are a long way from returning to normal for people living on Pine Valley Drive in Bessemer. Tarps cover the roofs of several homes, windows and doors are boarded up, and the upper levels of a several homes are gone.
Adonica Stanton lives just across the street from the homes that took the brunt of the Super Tuesday tornado.
“We only had like a few shingles that were missing,” Stanton said. “It’s nothing compared to a lot of the houses where they lost like the complete top half of their house.”
An EF-2 tornado is responsible for the path of destruction. It’s the same storm that damaged or destroyed a couple of hundred trees at nearby Bent Brook Golf Club and kept it closed for nearly three weeks.
Stanton was home on the evening of March 1.
“The wind was blowing really hard and the rain was beating on the windows,” Stanton recalled. “I couldn’t hear my sister or mom at the moment because my ears kept popping.”
On Jefferson Avenue Southwest in Birmingham, the destruction is still very evident from an EF-2 tornado that ripped through the area on Christmas Day. Madeline Dudley said while her home is almost back to normal, the same can’t be said for some of her neighbors.
“People are gone and I don’t even know where they are,” Dudley said. “One lady came down to the house one day and said, ‘I just wanted to check on you.’ And I told her, ‘I’m glad you checked on me because I wondered where you were.'”
No one suffered any life-threatening injuries as a result of the recent tornadoes.
