When Zaylin McAnelly first heard about the April 27, 2011, storms, she didn’t have a good understanding of what a tornado was.
“I just knew that it was some twisty thing, like from The Wizard of Oz, like knowing that Dorothy got picked up by a tornado,” she said. “I guess I knew what that was, but I never really knew how tornadoes were caused or the science behind it.”
Zaylin is one of the youngest survivors of the storm system that struck Alabama 15 years ago, spawning a record-setting 62 tornadoes on a single day. The tornado outbreak took 252 lives and forever changed many more…