🌱 How McDonald Chapel endured one of Alabama’s deadliest tornadoes 70 years ago

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• How McDonald Chapel endured one of Alabama’s deadliest tornadoes 70 years ago

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 88 and low of 62 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 83, low: 49.
• Sunday: Some sun, windy and cooler, with a high of 69 and low of 43 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• 70 years since deadly tornado killed 25 Alabamians: ‘Ball of fire rolling in big black smoke' (al.com) — Seventy years ago, a devastating F4 tornado tore through McDonald Chapel, killing 25 people, injuring hundreds, and leaving a quarter of the town homeless. This anniversary piece revisits eyewitness memories and explains how that storm fit into a troubling pattern of powerful Alabama tornadoes affecting nearby communities like Pleasant Grove, Edgewater, and Oak Grove.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• OurHome's Mustache Bash
  The Edge , 817 Greensprings Hwy. , Homewood
  6:00 pm
• Freaky Friday Presented by Homewood Theater
  Homewood Central Park
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 18

• Freaky Friday
  Homewood Central Park , 1632 Oxmoor Rd , Homewood
  2:30 pm
• Birmingham Stallions vs Orlando Storm
  2100 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N , Birmingham
  3:00 pm
• Fantasia & Anthony Hamilton
  Legacy Arena , 1898 9th Ave N , Birmingham
  8:00 pm

Sunday April 19

• D. Sablu / Acute Effect / Anomaly / Disclpa / True Love
  Firehouse Community Arts Center , 412 41st St S , Birmingham
  12:30 pm

Monday April 20

• Pleasant Grove Spartans vs Wenonah Dragons
  Pleasant Grove High School , 100 Spartan Dr , Pleasant Grove
  4:30 pm

Tuesday April 21

• Woodlawn vs. Huffman đĽ
  Birmingham City , 1901 Green Springs Ave S , Birmingham
  8:00 am
• April Membership Luncheon: Excellence in Education
  The Valley Hotel , 2727 18th Street S. , Homewood
  11:30 am
• Unlock the Magic Networking Mixer
  Birmingham City , 2612 Lane Park Road , Birmingham
  5:00 pm

Thursday April 23

• Unlock the Magic Hiring Fair
  Birmingham City , 400 Abraham Wood Jr. BIvd. , Birmingham
  4:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Pleasant Grove Spartans Round Robin
  Pleasant Grove High School , 100 Spartan Dr , Pleasant Grove
  10:00 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Birmingham

• Community Land Trust Act aims to keep housing affordable in Birmingham (wbrc.com)
• Buffalo Rock completes $300M infrastructure updates with new Birmingham HQ (bhamnow.com)
• Totally Awesome 80's Murder Mystery (birminghamal.gov)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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