About 'furniture tuscaloosa al'|Guest Post by K: Whirlwinds of Change & a New Normal
Today on Yahoo! News, I came across the heartwarming story of the delayed graduation ceremonies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Six UA students lost their lives in the devastating tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011, when 62 tornadoes ravaged the Deep South, including a large F4 tornado that plowed through densely-populated sections of the middling-to-large college town of Tuscaloosa. To read the news, one would believe that this is the worst thing that ever happened in Tuscaloosa, but I and probably thousands of other people could tell you a different tale. I lived in Tuscaloosa for three years, from 1997 to 2000. In that time, I was involved in two car accidents, one of them quite serious. Contrast that to another college town, Auburn, Alabama, where I lived and drove for 11 years without a single traffic mishap. In my short tenure in Tuscaloosa, I heard many more horror tales of gruesome auto accidents from students, residents and visitors alike. When the guy who pranged our car sued us (!), I was present at the jury selection, and almost all of the potential jurors had been involved in an accident in or near the city. That should tell you something. According to this accident law site, there are 37 auto-related deaths in Tuscaloosa County each year. This encompasses mainly the cities of Tuscaloosa and its sister city, Northport. A far higher death toll lurks along the dangerous intersections and four-lane highways than was seen in the April 27 outbreak; of course, they didn't all happen at once. That is what makes the tornado outbreak so awful, but I couldn't let my own, perhaps more prosaic, experience with Tuscaloosa remain unexpressed in the wake of remembrance for the victims of this outbreak. I have driven in many large cities: Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, New Orleans, Chicago, Nashville, Huntsville (AL), Birmingham, the list goes on. I imagine that, if I had lived for a long term in any of these large cities, I would be more inured to the fact of life that driving is inherently dangerous, and more people perish on America's roadways than by any other mode of transportation. Still, one doesn't expect a mid-sized college town to have such an Indy 500 mentality on its roads. I came to Tuscaloosa straight from Auburn (make of that what you will!), and although Auburn's roads were woefully inadequate to the burgeoning college student population, Tuscaloosa's roads are much more expansive. One would think they would easily accommodate the surrounding population.That population drove like bats out of hell, though! But Tuscaloosa is not Auburn, as most Tide and Tiger fans will agree. I would estimate the former has at least three times the population of the latter, and it has the extra infrastructure that goes with that larger population. This also means that any flaws in the highway and road layouts will be more thoroughly put to the test, as I found out in my 1998 "crash test," which occurred only two blocks from my house. I'm not trying to marginalize what happened to the people who lost loved ones in the April 27 outbreak, but rather, I wish to put the "mishap factor" in perspective. College towns are dangerous for many reasons. Of course one doesn't expect a massive tornado outbreak to be one of those reasons. A student goes out on his or her own, perhaps with a new car, a new set of dorm furniture and the rush of first-time independence. Many students don't have a clue what to do with this freedom; some get caught in the merciless crush of life as we know it. Leaving home is dangerous and unpredictable in outcome. But rest assured, you are MUCH more likely to perish in a car accident in Tuscaloosa than in a tornado outbreak. So, just because you've got sunny skies and a cool car, that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep an eye on the road and put down that cellphone! The long-term health of people like you and me is at stake here (not to mention your insurability)! |
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