Tuscaloosa mayor: Eyes back on tornado catastrophe
The tornadoes weren’t forgotten. The families of the hundreds who were killed in last week’s record outbreak that flattened towns in the South, and the tens of thousands whose homes or businesses were damaged, and the many donors and volunteers who rushed to their aid from around the world didn’t forget about the destruction, even after the United States announced it had killed Osama bin Laden.
But the terrorist mastermind’s death has dominated national headlines since Sunday night, pushing tornado disaster reports, while still being made, down the pecking order. The mayor of Tuscaloosa - the University of Alabama city where at least 41 died and 25 still are missing - noticed.
Mayor Walter Maddox said this week that “with Tuscaloosa no longer being in the national media, I believe it can present a problem in terms of reminding the nation that what we face down here is a catastrophe,” according to The Crimson White.