2011 Super Outbreak: The Hackleburg - Phil Campbell Tornado
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This week’s video was a tear-jerker for me. I’m sure many of you have experiences with the 2011 outbreak, and it still feels recent.
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Research resource: [www.weather.gov/bmx/event_042...](www.weather.gov/bmx/event_042...)
NWS Discussion on Hackleburg: [www.weather.gov/bmx/event_042...](www.weather.gov/bmx/event_042...)
Research Tool (very cool): [tornadoarchive.com/home/](tornadoarchive.com/home/)
Why was the death toll so high?: [www.al.com/news/2018/04/april...](www.al.com/news/2018/04/april...)
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Thank you for covering this tornado. My mom’s family is from Hackleburg. Members of our family have lived there for generations, over 100 years. My grandfather was actually mayor in the 70’s. Thankfully everyone from our family was okay, but the damage to the town was truly horrific. My mom, aunt, brother, and I were there the week after the storm helping provide resources to survivors. I had never seen anything like it before, and I hope I never do again. My mom, who had lived there from birth til her mid twenties, had trouble navigating the roads because everything was unrecognizable. Her childhood home was destroyed. The town was deathly silent aside from the beeping of power trucks and other equipment. There were no birds, no cars, just eerie silence.
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Every now and then you could hear the loud whirring of an air conditioner that was connected to a refrigerated truck across the street. It contained the remains of victims that they were trying to identify. Every time it would kick up, there was a pit in my stomach. It was a sobering reminder of the true horror of what had happened. It took me a long time to get that sound out of my head. The town has rebuilt, but things still don’t look the same.
As an aside, another tornado went through the town in the 30s or 40s that followed almost the exact same path and also caused extensive damage. My grandmother told me about it when I was a kid.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this Anna, and I am so sorry you and your family had to go through this. I can’t begin to imagine how it wrenching it was to experience that, and then have to rebuild your entire town. I know one thing for sure, those people from Hackleburg are really strong.
This is heartbreaking and really contributed to the story Carly put out. Thank you for sharing
Anna, thank you for sharing your story. Please continue to share it to help save lives. Everyone is so busy and immersed in social media and they never think it will happen to them. If the National Weather Service issues a PDS then you better just anticipate life-threatening tornadoes and take precautions if you hear any warnings.
Alabamaians are the most welcoming, strong and compassionate people on this planet.
I'm in Limestone County and in my yard I found paper documents from Hackleburg and Smithville, still have them.
If you don't mind, what is the last name, I probably know some of them. If you don't mind me asking
The family on the porch with the tornado bearing down on them is insane. Like they both activly recognize that it's right there almost within arms reach and don't take shelter.
It's crazy how common this seems to be. A lot of people just want to watch outside until the last possible second. I've heard so many tornado survivor stories that go along the lines of "as soon as I got into the house and closed the door, the house exploded." I'm just like, why did you wait that long to seek shelter?!
@@97I30T, sadly it may be so that they can get that video footage.
@@97I30T I think it’s genuine ignorance, and I don’t mean it as an insult. I think these people just truly don’t comprehend the sort of danger they’re in until their roof is coming off, their walls are collapsing, and their belongings are suddenly deadly projectiles. People tend to feel that they’re invincible until they’re, usually in a traumatic way, reminded that they absolutely aren’t.
It's a southern thing. Idk why, but we just *have* to go look at it. -rolls eyes- I remember when my husband and I and our two roommates were almost hit by a tornado (it missed, thankfully), three of us were all huddled in this little closet under the stairs yelling at the fourth, one of the roommates, to *get in the closet dammit* while he stood out on the porch looking for it.
Maybe it's a sort of desensitization. Tornados are so common down here that I don't think people really realize how dangerous they are since half the time they're little ones that maybe rattle the windows, pull off some shingles, or die out before they ever hit a town. I've never understood it, always makes me queazy when there's a tornado warning, but when I was a kid and asked my grandparents why they weren't more worried they said that a tornado hadn't got em yet, so.
@pixelapocrypha I saw the damage of the USM tornado, lived through the William Carey tornado, and worked the scene of the Collins-Moss tornado. A lot of us down here don't really have the sense of respect that we should have for these weather events. I would say it's precisely because what you mentioned, many of our tornados are small and don't do much, and even the large ones can track for miles without ever hitting a building doing "real," damage. I can recall myself working at a station when an EF0 went by and shook the station, but it never caused any damage. My partner and I were in the bay watching the whole thing go down, kinda got caught up in it due to no warning or sirens.
I lived through the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado. There is still damage and scars there to this day, although they've built back. The saddest thing was watching them bring in the cadaver dogs and they had to follow where the buzzards were circling, into fields and creeks to help find the missing. 😔
That's horrible :( I'm so sorry that you went through that.
Fun fact: I was a part of the National Guard response to this tornado. The damage was breathtaking. Family members being torn from one another. Cars planted half a mile down the road or more from where they were parked when the storm started. This was nature at its most brutal, and it was truly a pleasure to help these people after sustaining such a massive loss. I grew up about an hour south of Hackleburg, and this was one of the scariest days I’ve lived through.
My dad was in management at US Steel and that day was rough for him. Alot of his employees lived in Phil-Campbell and Hackleburg. He worked with the company to allocate some resources for help. He took a few big dozers, excavators and, those guys up there. They did alot of work and saw alot of unfortunate things there.
I was on an ambulance in the Birmingham Metro area 4/27/11. After the outbreak, I was sent east of Birmingham and was the first medical aid to a small community. There were multiple patients, but none were severely injured. The next day we heard about Hackleburg getting hit hard and people needing help there. Myself and 3 buddies went up to aid in SAR. The best way I could summarize what we saw when we got there is what my buddy said, “Hackleburg doesn’t exist anymore.”
That's right, that was my home town and it will never be the same again. I went to school with many of those lost and injured. Played and visited in many of the houses destroyed. My youngest son was there with my parents when this happened. It took hours to find out they were alive and unharmed. My sister was in the Wrangler plant that got destroyed, she crawled out alive, her friend seeking refuge under the same office desk was not as lucky. I was there 03/24/2023 and helped my parents into the same storm house they took shelter in 2011, thank goodness that storm lifted at the MS-AL line. I think often about this storm, the destruction and those lost. My heart still goes out to all that were lost then and those that were in MS 03/24/23.
@@scottfrederick8299 I’m glad you and your family are safe. I’m so sorry for the loss of your community, I can’t imagine the pain you felt
North smithfield? Over behind the flying j? Is that the small community you speak of? I'm from gardendale
I've heard that there's still visible damage TO THIS DAY from that tornado, literally changed the landscape
I drive through Phil Campbell for work every week in the scars are definitely still there. There's empty landscape where forests used to be and foundations where houses used to stand
@@willthomas3399 that's insane, I know the tuscaloosa tornado the path is still quite visible
That was a horrible day. I live just outside Cordova and we had two tornadoes hit the town that day , but the F4 that hit that evening literally wiped out the town. Cordova will never be the same.
Smithville missipi's water tower STILL has the dent from the 2011 tornado launched suv that smashed into it.
There is. I've seen it. A lot of scars still remain to this day
I live in Blount County in North Central Alabama. I was in the shower at 6am that morning when I heard the wind as the power went out. A storm (I was later told it was an F1 tornado) had passed just below my house downing dozens of large pine trees blocking the state highway in front of my house. We were out of power until the next day. I stood in my front yard and watched debri flying overhead as the tornadoes hit Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Cullman later that day.
I live in Cullman county and that day we had 5 tornadoes. No reports on any of them except for the one that hit the town of Cullman
When you talk about Dixie Alley, you also have to talk about the socio economic reality that a lot of poor people live in trailers, which are death traps. You also have to mention the trees and hills which prevent people from actually seeing tornadoes. If one changes directions, you can be the best storm spotter in the world and get caught off guard!
She covered the fact of the trees and poor visibility and all of that but even tho trailers are not safe with tornadoes it DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE POOR… I literally can not believe you said that I live in a brand new double wide and I promise I am doin great and have plenty of nice things with plenty of land trailers are convenient to set up faster it doesn’t mean your poor there are people who struggle everywhere house or trailer but I can tell you I couldn’t be more satisfied and happier in life right now and feel like I’ve created me and my family a successful life to be happy with
@@theflattop2388 Dude... Way to project your insecurities...
I ain’t insecure about shit I love my life and everything I’ve busted my ass for… no reason to stereotype people saying there poor cause they live in a mobile home????
Whether the occupant of a mobile home is poor or not is irrelevant to the fact that they are death traps in a tornado.
As for frame housing, they honestly don't fare too much better survival wise in an EF-4 or EF-5 in the southeast for another reason. There are no basements due to the high water table. This is one of many reasons that the southeast has a disproportionate amount of the annual tornado fatalities.
i think why gloria mentioned the socio economic status is because severe weather events disproportionately affect poor people. a lot of the time, live in the more dangerous areas because it’s cheaper, live in mobile homes and trailers, and do not have the finances to recover from damages and medical bills. it’s not stereotyping to recognize that a lot of the people who live in mobile homes are poor, it’s just the unfortunate reality we live in. glossing over the fact that poor people are affected more by events like this makes it harder to help and to get across the point how dangerous scenarios like this are for people in those situations.
One word……. WOW!!! You have outdone yourself on this one ma’am. I am a tornado video junkie, watching the likes of Pecos Hank, Reid Timmer, etc, as I love their commentary and technical synopsis. You have been added to list among those pro’s. I appreciate all of the work you have put into these videos, and can say with 100% confidence, that you have done those affected by this “once in a lifetime” storm justice!! I’m a severe weather junkie, and have proudly found my new dealer. Thank you.
Wow thank you so much for this comment!! I hope I can continue to improve because I'm also a huge fan of those guys. Making videos is so fun for me because I'm already doing research on these events anyways lol
This was an entirely different breed of tornado, similar to the Tri-State
I just noticed your name lmfaoooo
@@beakfast6978 I get that a lot lol.
@@carlyannawx What Southern state are you from?
Being an Alabama resident my entire 47 years, and being a tornado/weather junkie...this was one of the most surreal days of my life. Just crazy. Torcon 10. 100% chance of a tornado dropping within 50 miles of any place in Alabama on April 27, 2011.
I live in the Ohio valley and remember being glued to the Weather Channel. I was in complete shock when i saw the Torcon 10. This day, and all of 2011 actually, was incredibly terrifying
@Strange Creature I know im late to replying- but 2011 was the craziest tornado year of my 48 years on this earth. I live in Birmingham. Have all my life. When the tornadoes started dropping they just kept coming. The convection lone that rolled through early am on that morning, their was damage with .5 miles of my house. I was very late getting to work bc of downed trees. It was nuts. All day was nuts.
@@funkdoktor9099since you’re a Birmingham native I have a question for you I’ve always been curious about. In your “opinion” as someone who was there for both the 1998 F5 and in 2011, which particular tornado was worse? Not the overall outbreak event, but comparing the 98 F5 and any particular tornado near you from 2011? I mean an F/EF5 is an F/EF5 but I’m talking intensity.
@carlmay9532 man. What a great question. The 1998 oak Grove tornado was a monster. The aerial surveys showed crazy devastation. If you haven't seen any of the footage you should. The ground scouring was wild. Again. We are comparing honey crisp 🍎 to gala 🍎. I think the Hackleburg Phil Campbell was a much nastier monster. And thats saying something. It really was the dessert at the end of a 10 course meal. Their was so much energy in the atmosphere that day. It just rained tornadoes. A torcon 10. 100% chance of a tornado dropping within a 50 mile radius of where you were in central Alabama. That's crazy talk. Again, both were cataclysmically bad. Maybe had the 1998 Tornado been videoed like the H.P.C tornado, or had come at the end of a wild day of strong tornadoes dropping and killing people I might feel different. But I don't want to take away from the lore of the 98 oak Grove f5. It's its own animal. It killed people. It ruined lives. It was an anomaly fed by a gravity wave that kind of surprised everyone by its intensity. It scoured the ground and pulled asphalt and concrete out of it as well. Both really were true "fingers of god". But I think had the H.P.C. tornado taken the same path as the oak Grove tornado of 1998, the damage and death would have been worse. It just happened to go through a much more rural environment. I still think the Tuscaloosa tornado deserved an F5 rating as well. High end ef4 isnt anything to sneeze at. But the length of time it was down, the damage it did, and the lives it took. It deserves that label in my humble opinion. But the H.P.C. was the star of the show that day. Its crazy, but that little ole town of Phil Campbell has been hit by 2 f5's in its history. Again, great question. Fun to debate.
@@funkdoktor9099 I’m glad to see you don’t mind questions. I’ve got more for you if you don’t mind.
I'll never forget that day.. I worked my usual 8 hr time in my office at UT Med Ctr in Knoxville, then headed home in Blount County.. by this time, things started deteriorating quickly.. tornado warnings started popping all around. TV coverage was non-stop at the local and national level. Several folks died south and north of my location. One of the most curious things that wasn't mentioned much (no one filmed it) was the ef4 that traveled from rural Monroe County, crossed Chilhowee Lake, and headed into The Great Smoky Mountains for 10 miles! So much for the saying that mountains block big tornadoes...
I am from Phil Campbell/East Franklin area. This video is amazing. I'll never forget that day and the weeks that followed picking up the pieces of our home.
I seen this tornado as it moved just north and west of Huntsville. I'll never forget what it looked like. I'll never unsee that. It's something that will stick with me till I die
I was in Harvest when this tornado came through. Had been up all night the night before so i was sleeping, woke up to a crazy noise, walked outside, and the tornado was about 200 yards from me ripping through a neighborhood called Anderson Hills off of Hwy 53. One of the scariest moments of my life!!
Edit: I'm just now seeing you mention Anderson Hills. At this time across the hwy from that neighborhood was a little grocery store called Piggly Wiggly. As all of this was happening i looked up and saw a red dot in the sky, it had to be 1000 ft in the air. It was the Pigly Wigly sign that had been ripped up and thrown about 1/2 mile into the backyard of the house I was at. Crazy time!
You should do a video on the one that hit Tuscaloosa the same day.
Right there with you! I lived off of Jeff road and Carters Gin.. crazy crazy day.
Thanks Carly! Pecos Hank is my favorite chaser. You are my favorite documentarian. I learn a lot from both of you.
I would like to see a program put together by both of them.
I'm new, just discovered Carly, amazing. @stevenryle5709 agreed. Pecos Hank is in a category all his own when it comes to chasing. His footage is absolutely stunning and he's so knowledgeable.
@musicstewart9744 yes! That would be so great, Hank could provide the science behind Carly's meticulous documentation of the events.
I was there this day, not in Phil Campbell but same tornado. The silence afterwards, the emptiness of the sky, the devastation, to this day the damage is still there.
Carly, you did these folks great honor. Your technical presentation is topnotch, but where you excel most is in conveying the human cost of these terrible storms.
Thank you for covering this tornado. I live on the border of AL in SE TN and lived through this day, and I will never ever forget it. I have strong opinions due to my experience, and this event hits a strong nerve with me: The national media soaked the air waves with the Tuscaloosa tornado. Over. And over. I was livid because I saw people passing other areas that were hit to give all resources to that area because of the news not showing enough of the other areas hit. People needed help!
If you ask a stranger on the street about that day, they refer to Tuscaloosa. Hackleburg hardly recalled and the Phil Campbell area? They never heard of it. Even though I was not hit, I felt betrayed and was livid.
i’m from the huntsville area. i survived this. i was 5, 6 in november. i don’t remember much from this point in time but this is burned into my brain. the weeping, the bodies, my home town being absolutely demolished. i can still smell the gas and iron smells when i talk about it. my church was in shambles. that’s what really got me. the place that i was so comfortable with no longer being there. that’s a lot for a 5 year old to comprehend. i’m 17 now, it’s been nearly 12 years since and i remember everything that happened.
You never saw any bodies kid,go back to your aɓbazabba bar.
I got it twice that day. Before daybreak and again when the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado lifted for a moment.. and then sat back down as an EF-4 right on top of us where we were sheltering with a friend (my house was hit by an EF-2 before daylight that day). Two tornadoes in one day was too much.
We also lost some friends to the same tornado that hit us that night.
It really was the most horrific day. I remember it very clearly.. I had a 2 and 4 year old at the time.. I was 28. My husband actually had to go into work that night with them seeing those massive tornadoes on the ground.. and he made it there so when the big ones got to our side of the state my friend called to ask if I was watching the news and saw what was coming. When I told her we were missing half the house and certainly power.. I was listening to James Spann on a radio.. I’ll never forget when he said it was headed towards the University of Alabama may be the only time I made my children actually get on their knees to pray because college students are anywhere from 17-25.. and they aren’t watching the weather. All I could think about was those kids. And then we lost friends that were related (grandpa, mom, young daughter all in one home). The weeks after were awful. The fact that the landmarks were just gone was insane. I never realized I could get lost in my hometown. Glad you made it through safe. I didn’t want to scare my kids so I made “let’s make a shelter!” into a game for them the night before (really glad considering that surprise morning round actually did drop a tornado and my daughters room took the most damage.. if I hadn’t gotten a phone alert and having their things already ready meant all I had to do was grab them and throw them into the shelter. They still do that now and they’re clearly in high school by now.)
What's both interesting and gratifying is how far weather forecasting has come.
I was a kid in Ohio on Aprl 3, 1974, during that Super Outbreak. No Doppler Radar, very primitive computer modeling (if any), and only a few minutes of warning time, as opposed to modern times, with our average of 13 minutes advanced warning time. No NOAA weather radios, no internet, and not the level of understanding that comes with time, study and experience.
I sat terrified, glued to the TV, as news reports began rolling in from the western part of our state, regarding a city near Dayton called Xenia, and the destruction it had suffered.
And then, I find myself living in Alabama during the 2011 Super Outbreak, (albeit on the Gulf Coast; we got some nasty thunderstorms, but no tornadoes.)
I live in Ohio again, in a solidly built brick home with a basement, and I know what to pay attention to & look out for. I'm grateful to those who've made studying these storms their life's work. They've saved countless lives. I think we all owe these men and women a debt of gratitude. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@laurensmith43017I think you exhibited amazing grace under pressure. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 The fact that you kept a cool head so as not to scare your children shows what a good mom you are. I'm so sorry for all the lossed you suffered that day, and I'm glad you and those babies were okay!! I was in Alabama (Mobile) at the time, but, we were spared the worst of it that far south.
Hello fellow Huntsvillian! I was a teenager when this happened. I’ll always remember begging to be let out of school to drive myself home before the storms hit. I now live out near the Anderson Hills neighborhood. I can still see the damage to the trees and land out here
The legend, James Spann did a great job covering this event.
I lived in Harvest and rode out the tornado in a closet. Part of my roof was ripped off. I didn’t think I would make it. Still remember it like it was yesterday.
my grandparents were in this horrible storm, their house was destroyed and nothing was left. luckily they had an underground shelter and they lived. they said “the first time we stepped out of our shelter and saw nothing left of our house”.
This tornado was an absolute monster. I lived in Lubbock, Texas for a while for school and I have family from Dallas, Texas. I've witnessed tornadoes. I've watched plenty of footage of multivortex "monsters." I thought I'd seen the worst. None of them compare to the monstrosities of this tornado and the El Reno tornado. El Reno is a whole other story, but this tornado is truly terrifying as well. This thing looked like a fog, not even a wedge. Just watching this thing roll over a mile of land like a fog but leave the land behind stripped bare and full of debris was gut wrenching. Hopefully nothing like this happens again.
I remember this day. It was VERY warm and humid for a spring day hear on Long Island. I said to myself "Something's not right". I knew this day was going to be different.
I lived in ringgold ga off of Cherokee valley road where a ef4 completely destroyed my home luckily everyone was ok but half a mile down the road 4-5 people lost their lives l. Will never forget this day. Thank you for covering this you really do a amazing job with this!
By the way you do a great job on Ryan halls channel !
Wow. I don't even know where to start here. You just raised the bar, which you had already set pretty high. This is A+ stuff, from the footage, to the editing, to your own commentary and knowledge. You blend the science, historical facts, and human factor perfectly. Are you doing your own editing on these videos? It's really high quality, you do a brilliant job blending in your commentary with the video clips, and you do just the right amount of each. I wish I could give you some constructive criticism, but I honestly don't have any criticism at all, just gushing praise. And nice touch not begging for likes and subscribes at the end. Don't worry, they'll come. In fact, I'll do it for you:
If you haven't already liked this video and subscribed to this channel, please do so and help Carly get the following she deserves!
What a kind comment, thank you so much! I am doing all the editing, which is why the videos take a little bit longer but I always have way too much to say lol. I really do appreciate that, it means a lot! I'm always open to criticism and subscribers or not- I'm just really happy to have a platform where I can blab about weather because I wholeheartedly enjoy it! :)
@@carlyannawx I clicked on you by accident as the Plainfield Tornado has been beaten to death.I lived near there but I hung in there & now I’m hooked.You are a very intelligent young lady & very professional so now I’m catching up on your other videos.Oh & I also love your beautiful cat :)
I just learned one of my best friends from high school and her husband died in the Phil Campbell event. We had lost contact and she wasn't on social media. So sad how many lives were lost or impacted by this.
I live in North Alabama and was raised about an hour north of Phil Campbell/Hackleburg. I worked for Waste Management during the time of the 2011 outbreak and we raised funds and took supplies and relief funds to that area the following weekend. It was gut wrenching walking through the destruction. Slab and after slab either wiped clean, or with nothing but the toilets left. People walking up to us asking for supplies, animals wondering around still dirty from the storm. I still vividly remember it all 10+ yrs later. The area is still scarred to this day.
I recall watching James Spann cover the storms as they crossed over to Alabama, he would talk about the damage they'd already done in MS. That whole day was nuts.
I remember going to Birmingham in 2013 (senior year of high school when we were playing a team there for football playoffs and I was in the band-we lost lol) and since Birmingham and the surrounding area is the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it’s hilly. We were on a higher up road and could see sections of trees that obviously didn’t look like the rest and it turned out that it was where that tornado from the 2011 outbreak had tracked and severely damaged trees. At the time that had been a little over two years later and it was easily visible even that far out that the trees in that section were damaged.
I was on a 3-day mission in Afghanistan when this outbreak happened. I didn't hear about it until I watched this video back in March of this year! What a horrible tragedy. 😭💔 Thank you for the amazing work you do on these documentaries and for being so compassionate in the telling of the most tragic events.
Blaze is such a cute kitty! I have an orange cat also. I used to have two of them but one got eaten by wild animals when he was outside. I keep my cats inside now but they still have plenty of room to run around and lots of windows to watch birds, plus we have lots of bird feeder for them to watch too.
I'm hopelessly addicted to your videos. They're so well done, easy to understand, informative, and most of all compassionate and bursting with empathy. I've been obsessed with tornadoes my whole life and I'm so excited to have found your channel. Thank you!!🖤🌪
This was extraordinary, Carly. Thank you for creating this incredible video.
I took a major road trip around the Eastern U.S. during the spring of 2021 and drove through Hackleburg and Phil Campbell (about a week after the 10th anniversary). Like Xenia and Moore and El Reno and Joplin, these towns were somewhere else I needed to go, to better understand what happened and where it happened. Your video reminded me of where I’d been and the vivid scars that remain in those places came back to haunt me once again. These places and their people and their scars have made such an impact on me, even more so once I’ve been there. Even if it was years ago, you can’t help but feel it.
I had reviewed the maps and the damage path before I got into Phil Campbell. I ended up passing the community center and the enormous storm shelter adjacent to it then took College Road to the Jackson Highway (AL-237). When I reached 237, I knew the tornado had swept through there. The scars surrounded me and it was an extremely sobering experience.
To my right, there was a large slab, completely bare, where a building had obviously been. Across the street, a crumbling foundation that had clearly been there for some time. Along 237 and past Pinion Drive, there were driveways that led to nowhere and empty, overgrown lots. Turn right onto Belva and a nearly empty plot of land had a few small trees, very recently planted. Nearby houses were clearly new construction, some with shelters installed along the way.
My mother really likes your videos so we watched this one earlier tonight (last week, we watched your list of ten tornadoes that really stuck with you). This video led to me looking up those spots on Google Maps again. And there’s a newer function that lets you see how certain locations looked in the past.
I looked up the slab. In 2008, it was a little church; in 2014, it was completely gone. The crumbling foundation across the street was a cute house in 2008 and mostly gone in 2014. Those driveways to nowhere actually led to other cute houses in 2008 with beautiful trees in the yards; in 2014, the houses and beautiful trees were all gone. When I drove or walked by these places last year, they all gave off an eerie sense of disorder and hurt. I remain so haunted by it.
It’s so rare that I watch a video about tornadoes or other severe weather and see someone exhibit any degree of emotion or vulnerability. You feel something for these people and places that you’ve researched and your heart is truly in the stories you tell - sometimes, for those who can no longer tell them.
I definitely have more videos of yours to watch and I really look forward to them. Hell, my mother really looks forward to them. She doesn’t care for how some tornado/weather folks spend half their videos “screaming and hollering” (her words, lol).
Again, thank you - for the science and the heart.
p.s. I believe Mayfield was an EF5 but I think most folks don’t agree or just don’t want to discuss it.
It definitely had e5 damage levels in spots of the path. To be considered an ef5 it has to have confirmed 200 mph and they estimated 190. With that said it’s just 10 mph off. A horrible tornado. I live in Bowling Green. We got hit by a couple tornados the same night. I believe ours were ef3.
I live in Anderson Hills and I am glad you said we "sustained a direct hit” and did not say our neighborhood was completely destroyed because a lot of the locals here believe that our neighborhood completely got destroyed!!
I was a 7th grader in Memphis when this happened. It was and still is the scariest part in my life. The skies were constantly dark and green with the sirens going off at least once a day. The weather refused to let up and I felt like the only person in my entire school and family taking it seriously.
I can’t help but feel extraordinarily lucky that the tornadoes never really hit Memphis. It feels like we threaded the needle during that outbreak.
I lived in Mephis in the 90s and I remember the sirens. I too didn't take them seriously back in those days. Now there are so many videos documenting tornadoes in the South...I realize how stupid I was. Memphis has been surprisingly fortunate but it seems like a likely place for something significant to happen.
On a lighter note I got such a kick out of seeing James Spann looking like a modern day TH-camr with his daily extreme weather videos. The only thing missing from his intro was the welcome back to my channel after he said his name.
Oh miss ma’am I have been binging tornado content and you are incredible! You really are there with Pecos Hank and such! Keep up the good work!
Thanks Carly for an outstanding documentary. And thanks for being a huge asset to Ryan's team. Without you he would not be as successful. You and Andy are the best when covering severe weather. Thanks again Carly for all that you do.
Love Carly and her articulately narrated historical knowledge of our favorite hobby, Tornadoes !
I'm from Florence Alabama. (Live in east TN now) I went to nursing school in Phil Campbell. My daddy grew up in Kansas so we always had a healthy fear of tornados but, after 2011 it grew immensely. It was such a hard thing to see fellow nursing colleagues lose everything including family members in Phil Campbell and just the worst thing the state had ever endured. But out of that came the best. At the time there were no democrats, no Republicans, no race against race, none of that - just simply people helping and loving on people who had lost everything. And it was such a beautiful thing to see. Thank you for such a great documentary regarding this event that impacted my home state so profoundly. (I'm also a major fan of weather brains 😊)
I remember this almost like it was yesterday. I had just moved from GA up to PA for work and was on the road working out of a hotel room. Being a weather junkie and former spotter, even back then I had the TV on TWC and just remember sitting there all day watching in awe as they basically had wall to wall coverage of the entire outbreak. I've been back in GA for about 7 years now and anytime we get a moderate or high risk people start talking about this outbreak and it still gives you chills to remember it. Dixie is just a mess when it comes to tornadoes with the high precip, the hilly terrain full of trees, and in a lot of cases, poor road networks and bad traffic. That, and at least here in Northern GA, they always move in at night.
Great work on this one, if you are looking for some other interesting ones to cover there's the 1903/1936 Gainesville GA tornadoes and the 1944 Shiniston WV tornado.
My mother was driving home from work during the 1974 super outbreak and one of the 3 F3 tornadoes that hit our county rolled her about 200 yards but she survived. I've been obsessed with tornadoes from the first moment she told me about it and showed me the pictures.
Needless to say I'm a huge weather geek and witnessing the 2011 outbreak was surreal. Everyone focuses on Tuscaloosa but the Phil Campbell tornado was one of the top 5 tornadoes ever. EF5 moving at almost 70 mph is insane.
This is truly amazing work. Can't believe I just discovered your channel but I def subbed. Keep up the great work.
I think that the reason why everyone focuses on the Tuscaloosa, Alabama tornado from the 2011 Super Outbreak is due to the amount of media coverage as the tornado continued rampaging through the countryside northeast of Tuscaloosa up to the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham is one of the major cities in Alabama; so the excess media coverage was understandable and justified.
@@michaellovely6601 Exactly. I live about 25 miles N.E. of Birmingham. I witnessed damage in Moody, Al while trying to commute to work. There was no cell service, so I could not call work to tell them I was on my way. If I could have gotten through I would have been told not to try. Later that afternoon, we watched the Tuscaloosa tornado track towards Birmingham on live television in real time. Luckily, missed us by about 15 miles. Even so, photos, checks, wood paneling and roofing shingles were picked from our property for weeks after.
It was absolutely terrifying. The tornado is also so massive at 1.25 miles peak width that even though it's moving anywhere from 50-70 mph, it looks like it's moving slowly due to its sheer size and due to how low the wall cloud is, giving an illusion that everything around you is just turning dark not realizing that it's a fast-moving, EF5 monster.
@@dannyllerenatv8635 yeah I can't imagine watching and hearing that monster coming at you. Especially with no shelter. There is a video of a family and they're in a shelter. Bro it sounded absolutely horrifying for a good 45 seconds.
@@26michaeluk it tore apart an underground shelter(similarly to the Parkersburg EF5 of 2008) and it wasn’t too much smaller than the greensburg EF5 at peak width. This was a moving nightmare
I was in high school for this, in Atlanta. I lived about 2 miles from where the tornado hit, and Atlanta being hit in the city center was unheard of. No one I knew was prepared or even anxious about this. It wasn’t until the day after that I realized I was so close to danger from this.
I remember this outbreak so clearly. Mind you I was working in California at the time but being from the mid-west and studying Meteorology like a total weather nerd, once I heard the reports coming in, I was glued to the weather channel for 10 hours. They even rated a Tor-Con of 10 (100% chance) over North West Alabama on the 27th...just a crazy day. You did a fantastic job with this one Carly.
Thanks for helping me understand the events of that day. I live in South Huntsville, and although we weren’t hit directly, our water heater exploded when the power went out. We had to leave because I had two small children who needed water. I’m originally from Birmingham, but we couldn’t stay with family there because they were already sheltering family members impacted by the Tuscaloosa/ Birmingham EF4. We ended up staying on cots at my uncle’s church in Nashville. My son later told me that he thought we were on a vacation that wasn’t much fun at all. I felt like Huntsville Utilities should have had some kind of back up power instead of relying on Brown’s Ferry so much, especially since our power bills are so high, but now I understand how destructive this monster tornado really was.
I live in Cullman Al and that day was life changing. I never hope to see Alabama that messed up again. My heart broke but we really did come together as a community ❤️ I was 16 and volunteered every day there was so many people that needed help we traveled to all the counties we could and helping people in that dark moment made me the better person I am today.
This outbreak was the event that made me take tornado warnings seriously. I knew there was gonna be heavy weather in my state on that day, but I had no idea how bad it would be here or even further south. My first indication that something was seriously wrong was when I was at the local library and a storm spotter came bursting in telling us that there was a tornado warning. Our state had a few weak tornadoes on the 27th and the 28th, but it was largely defined by round after round of severe thunderstorms.
I am completely stunned! The hard work, dedication to facts, hours of excellent editing, syncing of music…I could go on.
This is the best I’ve seen!
You should talk about the SMITHVILLE MISSISSIPPI tornado that happened on the same day. It set several records too. One being the longest thrown vehicle, at 3000 yrds. It was later said it was the most violent in history by the damage done, in just a half a second, in the case of deforestation and pulling up pipes 6 ft.from the ground. Thank you for your channel it is very professional and informative.
Smithville must've had 300mph plus winds... the damage it caused was tremendous, considering how fast the tornado was moving😮
These before & after pictures in hackleburg phill cambell are just extra stunning to me for some reason.. idk why but the damage seems so erratic and not in a linear path. Just everything everywhere destroyed, scattered, riddled all over. Thank you for all the premium content you put out, very well put together and informative.
Carly, you do a wonderful job of producing these interesting documentaries on tornadoes. They’re very informative and well planned with thorough research. You’ve done an excellent job, darling. I’ve always been intrigued by tornadoes ever since I was a child. I’m an old man now at 64 and back then there were very few videos of tornadoes. But with cell phone cameras etc there are probably hundreds & thousands of videos now.
Thank you! I think not having the cell phones to get ample warnings would make those tornadoes a lot more scary! The videos of tornadoes in the 70’s-90’s are my favorite- they’re so creepy!
The Jarrell tornado is for me the most compelling and terrifying tornado on record. I know that Joplin or any of the Super Outbreak tornadoes from 1974 or May of 2011 or even the Moore tornadoes are awe-inspiring but Jarrell is in a class by itself. The damage to the Bridge Creek subdivision and what happened to the victims is so unspeakable and horrifying, yet it is what fascinates me about it. The outflow in its F5 stage is the most violent I have ever seen. I hope people help you obtain some more videos of Jarrell and I wish you the best of luck in documenting this historic weather event. I'll be keeping an eye out if you post anything new. Thank You!
Same.
Agreed, there is actually a very compelling documentary on it (just search Jarrell tornado dead man walking documentary) (the “dead man walking” is an old Native American legend of a multi-vortex tornado that goes with the saying “dead man walking in the clouds” and if you look it up, you actually find the Jarrell tornado in its multi-vortex stage before it turned into the massive, violent, and deadly F-5 churning wall of death and the legend goes that if you see the dead man walking, you or other people are going to die) I’d definitely recommend it as it is a reenactment of some of the survival stories and is definitely worth the watch
Isn't this the one where there wasn't even debris left?
@@johncraft3692 Yes, that's the one. The Jarrell tornado moved so slowly that it basically just sandblasted everything into a pulp.
I've always said that the one tornado I wouldnt want to endure is the Jerrell twister.
We were hit in the first round in North Alabama on April 27th. I helped clear trees in order for the first responders to attend to the injured. The Phil Campbell/Hackleburg tornado passed less than a 1/2 mile from my great aunt’s house right outside Mt. Hope. All my cousins and other family members were there in the storm shelter. One little boy ended up staying with my cousin for a time after losing his grandparents in the tornado. On my cousin’s land in Hatton, we found debris from Phil Campbell. We even found a car tag from Mississippi. It was a horrific day. One of the main reasons I chase tornadoes and do my part as an emergency manager today. Great job on covering this tornado. I’ll never forget that day.
I was living near Cahaba Heights so we lost power in that morning round…. Which literally left us mostly in the dark about how bad things were later that day until afterwards. We had no power for nearly a week afterwards. I have since watched the full TH-cam recording of James Spann’s coverage since I didn’t see it that day. I’ll never forget that day and the destruction my home state endured. I knew some first responders that helped in Pleasant Grove and the stories they had will chill you to the bone.
I think that you do a great job of documenting these storms Carly and you always recognize the human element to them all, Keep up the excellent work ma"am!
I've been a chaser for many years, mostly in tornado alley....and it never ceases to amaze me how folks will watch one coming at them,(@ 33 minute mark) continue to film, and possibly die, I have no fear of storms but I do respect them and always have a plan for a quick get-away...don't do urban or wooded area tornados. Keep at this...you're providing excellent content...the subs will follow...//
Sometimes I wonder if those folks are just pinned down, and have come to terms with the reality that they might not make it. Not everyone can afford a shelter, and it's not always possible to make it to one. 🤷♂️
@@LynxStarAuto The people that he's referring to were in a vehicle.
@@LynxStarAuto Especially since it's Alabama. No basements.
@@baldwinserrantshot365 No they weren't. They're standing on a porch that you can clearly make out before they go inside.
Ypu also were dealing with 35 dead people,rainsville Ala,bama....
The extent of the outpouring of human compassion for the devastated communities is truly heartwarming. Where people are merciful God gives hope. I couldn’t watch a video like this without that outpouring of support. Thanks WX❤😢❤
I’ll never forget that day as long as I live. We barely missed the worst in northeast GA. I remember hearing more and more from Alabama on the news every hour and breaking down in tears. I was 18. That was the longest day of my life and I remember it from start to finish.
The Dekalb county Alabama tornado wiped out more than 35 people rather quickly, while the rest of the world was watching t pounds he Tuscaloosa/Birmingham tornado do it's thing. an anchored Liberty safe weighing 800 pounds was ripped off of its cnchorage ed 800 pounds was pulled off it's anchncorage and thrown into a wooded area 600 feet away.When found, the safe had been ripped open and completely off, several instances of concrete, destruction and a corvete was found in the top of a tree, some distance away. ... YOU should read the damage list on this gruesome tornado that no one cared about.
I think you have some of the best stuff on the internet for tornadoes! You can see the time and effort into what you’re doing I greatly appreciate it!!
This makes me want to cry. As a provider I have seen children who lost both parents, parents who lost children. It was devastating
This gave me chills. I remember this day and saying, this will go down in history. Great job again.
Carly, I think I have probably watched each of your videos at least 10 times. You are the single most underrated person on this platform. Thank you for what you do. If you need suggestions, and I'm sure you've heard it already, you've gotta do the Smithville tornado. Possibly the craziest tornado damage ever considering its forward moving speed.
Thank you for these videos! It's one thing to be enthused, but to look deep in to these tragic events and share with such great detail for fellow enthusiasts is a blessing.
I just stumbled upon your channel because of TH-cam recommendations and all I can say is your work is incredible! Keep up the great work!
I survived the tuscaloosa tornado. Took a direct hit taking shelter in my buddy’s cellar. I’ve lived through 4 tornado’s and this was like a bad fever dream. I can remember how I felt and what I saw when I sleep or randomly on occasion. All I know is I watched the house above leave the ground through the hardwoods. My buddy and I were getting prepared for a deep sea fishing trip, he had a yeti 350 cooler full of food, beer, and liquor. I had a quarter pound of jazz cabbage, for the stress! We were stuck in the cellar for 3 days. Needless to say, we celebrated life and those we know were lost. Roll tide.
This day was terrifying. I was stuck in traffic on U.S. 411 on my way to work. A tornado had hit Moody, Alabama near Leeds. No cell service. No working traffic signals. Power was out. As soon as I got to work in Mountain Brook, I was told to go home and "stay safe". That was a long day.
As someone who has lived in Alabama all my life , this was a devastating tornado. I still believe the most powerful to ever strike the state of Alabama was the Guin tornado in the April 3, 1974 Super Outbreak. It was an F5 on the old Fujita Scale(winds of 260mph+). I base that on the fact that the Hackleburg-Phil Campbell tornado occurred during the day when there was maximum heat to fuel the tornado. The Guin tornado struck at almost 9pm. There is a short video from a 2003 special telecast on abc33/40 WBMA about the Guin tornado where my great aunt is interviewed. James Spann, the chief meterologist at 33/40 who produced the telecast, and I exchanged emails about the Guin tornado several years ago. James said the Guin tornado was not only the most powerful tornado to ever strike the state of Alabama, but one of the most powerful to ever strike planet Earth. The day after the tornado I was in Guin and saw where a mobile home plant was not just smashed but entirely swept away. I wouldn't have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes. Go to the search box and type Guin, Alabama tornado 1974.
I remember that. I was in a storm shelter in Winston county. To this day when I hear Guin mentioned my first thought is... Guin, the town that was completely destroyed in 1974. I heard that there was nothing left of it.
This channel is awesome. I haven't seen another tornado channel like it. You do a very good job giving us all the details about these magnificent storms. Thank you!
I lived in the same area during the April 3rd, 1974 outbreak. Both outbreaks are seared in my mind.
Your comments about the nuclear power plants is very timely. Much of the research funding into tornado climatology and wind/impact studies came from the Department of Energy, rather than the Department of Commerce/NOAA/NWS. There's a lot of video footage of telephone poles mounted on rocket sleds and fired into concrete walls. This is how they simulated EF5 debris slamming into the containment shielding around the reactor cores. (They also crashed planes into to them, slammed into them with locomotives, etc.)
Additionally, they tested the fuel delivery systems and the containers for waste products against tornado impacts.
This containment shielding was a key factor in keeping several worst case nuclear accidents from becoming full fledged disasters. Soviet reactors were the only ones in the world to forgo this shielding, and that is why the Chernobyl disaster was so horrible. They have since changed their designs.
Holy cow, wherever your knowledge came from- that is impressive! This is so interesting to me, I'm always wondering about not only tornado impacts but how they come up with the building guidelines for tornado shelters, etc. Thank goodness containment shielding exists, would be a scary world without it. Thanks so much for sharing- I'm intrigued
I'm loving the format of your videos, and amount of information and detail you put into them is very educational and informative! The amount of work and research you put into the videos are noticed and appreciated! Thank you, and keep them coming!
As always Carly, amazing job. This one actually made me cry. Thank you for really showing the spirit of these nice communities. Your videos help to put a face to all of the plain data on these incredible acts of nature.
I really enjoy the format you use for your videos, historical footage followed by detailed description of the events. Very well done!
Carly, your videos are just absolutely so well done!! So much information and it's all done with major respect and so much consideration to those that were affected. Thank you so much! I look forward to watching more!
Except for the audio drop when featuring some of the professional meteorologists...
There is no way this only had 210 mph winds, this had to be higher. The damage was just absurd
the estimated wind speeds have been a subject of much debate with the scale. DOW measurements have proven wind estimators wrong on several occasions. They are working to change that.
They don't know, so they just put in within the EF5 range. The real monster in this outbreak def had 300 mph winds
@@MeesterJyup... Smithville did damage close to 1999 bridge creek
I lived in Jasper, Al during this outbreak. It was an absolutely terrifying day to say the least. The power being out due to the morning outbreak made it even more terrifying. Jasper didn't take a direct hit but the morning QLCS caused major tree & structural damage from straight line wind. With wind gust reaching 125 mph & this was at 4 am!!! Like Carly said, this played a huge role in the death & injury tolls.
I just found your channel, but I’ve seen and heard you when you work with Ryan Hall. I am a huge severe weather geek and I watch your live streams whenever I can. Thank you for all you do. The work you all do saves countless lives.
Darn you do a great job with these videos. So much research and you credit all the sources you use. Professional presentation that not only thoroughly covers the fact, but the feeling of the event.
You did an outstanding job. I can see you genuinely care. Thank you for all the time and effort you out in to your videos.
your channel is amazing. as someone who survived this outbreak (in the same county as the PC EF5, with family in cullman and tuscaloosa) i truly admire you. i’d love to make a podcast covering storms the way you do, & would be honored to meet up for a chase this season
Been waiting for a detailed breakdown of the Hackleburg- Phil Campbell tornado for years honestly and you delivered in a great way; I stumbled across your channel today and I’m an instant sub. I lived through the 2011 Super Outbreak and we had a really close call, so nothing compared to the people of Hackleburg, Phill Campbell, Tuscaloosa, etc. Thank you for the hard work you did compiling this much information and I look forward to your future content.
Always appreciate your videos on tornadoes. I love learning about them.
I spent most of my teenage and young adult years with a phobia for tornados, only for me to study and learn that most tornados are a minor dust-up with some minor damage. But this monster is the monster I've always been afraid of in tornadoes. Like you said about the Greensburg tornado, the strongest tornados. . . there's no safe place to be except out of their way. And if your home is in their way, God help you.
I greatly appreciate you putting these videos together, and talking about this tornado in particular. I knew this one was an EF5, but I didn't know much else about it compared to Tuscaloosa and elsewhere. Plus all the great info about the overall outbreak. Great coverage.
Smithville F5 tore into the ground 2 feet deep, that spot was probably the strongest tornado to ever touch the earth, literally drilling 2 ft into the earth.
@@michaelorme7501it was, ground scouring in smithville was 1 foot, thought the core was so small it would hit the ground for half a second at some times.
@@stillchillin7580 which one was worse, this one or Smithville?
Great work! It's nice seeing someone bringing the history of past events into great detail!
I live near Huntsville, and although I was like 11 when this happened, I still very clearly remember my parents barricading us in the bathroom of our apartment. We got lucky, thankfully, and the only damage in our area was a big tree that fell over. Still was pretty scary, but I’m glad we got through it with no damage to ourselves or our home. Can’t say the same for others unfortunately.
I actually had never looked into what happened and where these tornadoes went, and after watching this video it’s insane to me that I’ve driven through the areas where this tornado went through on multiple occasions.
I'm originally from Huntsville. I was a sophomore in high school at the time. I remember seeing this tornado in person as it moved just north and west of Huntsville. I'll never forget what I saw. It will haunt me till I die!
i would love to see you cover the ef4 tuscaloosa-birmingham tornado! it was a huge moment in my childhood and deeply affected many communities in our local surrounding area. it would be interesting to hear someone talk about james spann’s marathon coverage of the day! not only was it a monster tornado with a crazy track, but his coverage is exceptional and saved SO MANY lives that day, especially in t-town and bham metro. the cordova tornado that day is also one i’d love to see you cover.
i was 10 years old in april 2011. my great grandma was several blocks from the path in pleasant grove. we could see the funnel all the way from Hoover, AL. i remember james spann’s coverage like it was yesterday. “all you can do is pray”
him talking directly to the kids telling us to stay home and tell the principal to take it up with him personally! the way with which he managed to add levity to the situation and the grace with which he handled himself and commanded the room. his use of double boxing to illustrate the danger and make his point. rambling but regardless, great work as always!
Thank you for doing this. This is probably the most violent of the outbreak. These are small rural communities. Total devastation!
Loving the in-depth episodes!!! Keep em coming!!
I'm SO grateful you chose this tornado and it's impact on Hackleburg and Phil Campbell as a large point of focus since it seems like it's quite often neglected in tellings related to the 2011 Super Outbreak. I recognize there were a lot of worst-case-scenario events that day, what with Tuscaloosa and Birmingham being hit. However, I always hoped that someday someone would do a high-quality, deep dive to tell the story of those two towns. And here I am, finally watching one, ❤️ I subbed so fast!
I live next door to Alabama, near Athens, GA and I remember this terrible day so well. I'm a lifelong weather nerd stemming from an all encompassing fear I had of them as a young girl. My dad taught me how to read and interpret dopler radar as a way to empower me, sensing it would help calm my panic every time it stormed if I could turn on the weather and then verify if it was acftually going to be serious or not-and it worked, my fear morphed into fascination a long time ago. One of my earliest memories is from even before then, I hadn't even reached school age, and I remember so vividly my dad pointing out how to identify our county on a state map by comparing its shape to a banana, lol. During the time of the outbreak in 2011 I was a junior in college. I was sickly worried days in advance. It was horrible. I was driving home listening to the news when they cut in about the tornado being on the ground in Tuscaloosa. I didn't sleep that night. I've since watched and re-watched the TH-cam 8 hour upload of ABC Birmingham's nonstop coverage with James Spann and Jason. It never gets "old" to me. And I'm impacted every time. The first time I donated to a non-local charity was for one that benefited Alabama tornado victims.
I appreciate your work on this amazing documentary.
I saw the absolute worst of the worst of this outbreak living in the path of this monster. I took hundreds of videos of the aftermath of the sheer destruction of this storm & it literally looked like a nuclear bomb went off in the areas hardest hit.
Total Devastation doesn’t even begin to describe the loss of people, homes, businesses, & livestock that occurred that day in April of 2011.
I’m so blessed to have lived through that.
Please let me know if you need any additional video from that outbreak.
Subscribed 👍🏻
Carly, I think I’ve commented before but I’m not sure. I’m watching this again, because your coverage is so good! I appreciate how you look at the human impact of these events and you always share your honest opinion and the truth about these storms. You don’t try to fluff your channel up or promote it like so many others do. I appreciate your sincere, pure reporting of these events and how you care for and respect the victims by handling these stories with such truthfulness and humility. Keep up the great work!
Down here in Australia, we remember this massive outbreak of killer tornadoes. It was an absolute shocker.
When did this happened ?
I was in hackleburg on the 28th and the damage was unreal . We were told expect to find body parts not bodies. That storm pulled water meters out of the ground . Entire town was gone.
Your coverage is excellent. Never forget that day. Thank you.
I'm a New Englander..., only seen maybe 1-2 funnel clouds in the sky around here...,
at 0:54..., just amazed that a tornado can literally rip up the asphalt??! God in
heaven..., the power of these storms!..., my heart(& prayers)go out to all of you
who have seen & lived through such an event.
Thank you,Carly. You do such a fine job on all your videos. You're a real pro!
Really excellent work Carly Anna!! Great job compiling + producing the video, looks like a lot of work