This was the EF3 that came close to Brent/Centreville and went just north of Joe.
I’m posting this mainly to demonstrate how easy it is to share videos – even full episodes of TV programs. It’s also interesting because of the recent news about that crackpot predicting the Rapture on May 21st.
Everybody knows I never forget birthdays. This would be 46 for you. Too bad we can’t be pushing 50 together.
Here’s video from Tuscaloosa News yesterday:
What I’ve heard so far is that most of the deaths and damage are north and east of our relatives in Bibb county. However, Joe mentioned on Facebook that his neighbors were pretty hard hit, as was Eoline.
From The Birmingham News this afternoon:
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The death toll in Alabama from Wednesday’s storms has reached 194, the state emergency Management Agency officials reported late this afternoon.
The latest report did not include an county-by-by county accounting of the dead.
Earlier the agency said that so far, there were 36 deaths reported in Tuscaloosa County, 30 deaths in DeKalb County, 18 in Franklin County, 14 in Jefferson County, 14 in Walker County, 13 in St. Clair County and 13 in Lawrence County.
The agency reported that other counties reporting deaths were Jackson County, with eight reported deaths; Madison County, 7; Calhoun County, 6; Elmore County, 5; Marshall County, 5; Hale County, 4; Limestone County, 3; Marion County, 3; Cullman County, 2; Fayette County, 2; and Bibb County, with one reported death.
I found these online:
Pictures submitted by the late Herman Belcher unless otherwise noted.
There’s mention of Katherine’s marker there, but no picture.
If you’ve ever wondered, and I know you have, why Mama was German but born in Yugoslavia, there’s a site that explains it all.
This particular excerpt, which is contained in a link I found at the site, meshes with stories Mama and aunt Marianne told me:
In the district of Hodschag the Danube Swabians formed the greater portion of the population. It was in effect a totally Danube Swabian region. It consisted of the entirely Swabian communities of Hodschag, Filipovo, Karvukovo and communities with small Serbian populations like Parabutsch, Milititsch and Brestowatz. While still in other communities the numbers of Danube Swabians was high in Batsch, Deronje, Wajska and Plavna. A large part of the population had been evacuated in the fall of 1944 as the Russians advanced into Yugoslavia. But the percentage of those who fled differed greatly in the various communities of the district. While the vast majority of the Swabian population allowed themselves to be evacuated, almost all of the Swabians in Filipovo remained at home and the greater portion of the Swabians remained in Hodschag.
I remember watching this back in the early 70s. It was produced by the same people who did Space: 1999:
You would be 69 years old today. Even though you’ve been gone for over 8 years now, I still think about you all the time. I expected you to still be here!
This is it! The inaugural entry on the new “theBelcherFamily.com” website.
It will be changing quite regularly because I am doing this without a plan. So I am open for ideas. Send them to me here.
