I posted a note yesterday about Alabama and a reader sends an important reminder:

Please don’t forget tornado affected communities in the South not mentioned by our wonderful media. Despite the well-documented and nationally reported horrific devastation in Tuscaloosa, AL, that area only represents 20 to 25% of the storm caused fatalities in Alabama. Many, many other Alabama (and Mississippi and Georgia and Tennessee) communities were devastated as well. Other communities, like, Mount Hope, AL, Phil Campbell, AL, Tanner, AL, Harvest, AL, Hackleburg, AL, Smithville, MS, Ringgold, GA, and many others, had large numbers casualties and most or significant parts of those communities are simply gone. These communities would like at least some recognition by national media.
If one lives in ANYWHERE in North Alabama, and surrounding counties in MS, GA, and TN, last week you either got hit by a tornado or almost got hit by a tornado. 4 different tornadoes came very close to where we live, one of which rained debris on my house. And this story is not unique, over 1 million people could have typed the preceding sentence. My wife, kids, and I spent almost 3 hours in the hall closet that afternoon.We’re all on edge down here, please forgive the touchiness. We in the forgotten (by the national media) storm ravaged areas of Alabama are tired of being ignored. We’re helping each other, but we’d like others around the country to know that the storms did not start and end in one community.
Those of us who didn’t get hit are very fortunate.
I’m a huge fan of NR, and yours and Jonah’s and Mark Steyn and VDH and others, and a subscriber. Please don’t take this the wrong way. I’ve been wanting to write this to somebody, ANYBODY, and you just got in the way. My friends that I’ve talked to around the country have been surprised when they hear that we’ve been without power since last Wednesday (we got ours back today). They just didn’t know anything hit “anywhere but Tuscaloosa.”
We love NR.