Satellite Image of Tuscaloosa Tornado Damage

The Los Angeles Times has before and after satellite images of an area of Tuscaloosa, Alabama hit by the tornado. The difference in the images is mind-boggling.

About those tornadoes in the South and Midwest...

[Crossposted from Sugar Land is Dreaming]

I probably don't need to tell you how horrible they have been. Batocchio has a run down of the news, and also links to a blogswarm post by Monkeyfister, who lives in the area that has been devastated and has more information -- the most important info may be where to donate some cash:

American Red Cross
Mid-South Chapter
1400 Central Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
901-726-1690

And:
United Way of the Mid-South phone in a donation at (901) 433-4300.

They take DIRECT donations, so you can skip all the National-level waste and delay, AND they serve nearly every community in the affected radius.

Monkeyfister notes that, just like in New Orleans post-Katrina, these storms effected some really financially poor people who have no place else to go. They need whatever aid can be sent, so if you can...