On April 27,2011, an EF-4 tornado (EF-5 being the strongest) destroyed several neighborhoods in Tuscaloosa, the home of the university of Alabama and of WVUA-TV, which the university owns and operates. The Tuscaloosa storm killed 43 people, and dozens more died in other counties .Every journalist at WVUA was busy keeping up with the rising death toll, the impact of the storm on the university and multiple communities’ efforts to provide aid and begin the cleanup.