May 5, 2011 | AL.com
Alabama tornado links: 1 room left standing and meteorologist's...
Thad Brooks is a trained weather spotter, a meteorologist, in fact, so that when he saw an EF4 tornado in his rearview mirror as he headed toward his his family's home in the Lakeview community in DeKalb County, he knew what to do when he got there, the Gadsden Times reports today .
May 5, 2011 | Anniston Star
DeKalb family survived tornado in only room left standing
Thad Brooks is a trained weather spotter. He knew the tornadoes expected to move through the state were going to be epic.
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