“We need to get a few shots of the snagboat,” Steve said. Snagboat? Until this week, I had never heard the term. My partner for the day, Steve Gilbert, whom I was helping with a video project for the TravelnAlabama tourism channel he operates in west Alabama, headed along Pickens county Highway 14 northwest from […]
If you can find the time to ‘get off the interstate’ and take roads less traveled (as James Spann has advocated), you will likely experience an Alabama that’s different from anything you may have imagined. I had this opportunity while helping on a video shoot yesterday, and wound up learning some things I never knew […]
Folks attending the Central Alabama National Weather Association’s March 8th meeting at Jim ‘N Nick’s in Homewood were in for several treats: The legendary J. B. Elliott was guest speaker, and gave a fascinating overview of the April, 1977 Smithfield tornado which killed 22 people. J. B., who worked for the National Weather Service at […]
We here in the U.S. may not be thinking much about tropical activity in February, but the tropics are certainly active in other parts of the world. Cyclone Favio, once a Category 4 storm, is about to strike the coast of mainland Africa. The image below, taken by NASA’s Terra satellite, shows Favio as it […]
Not sure what this was about, but while I was shooting pictures in the Indian Springs area of North Shelby county this afternoon, I was surprised to look up and see some folks taking in the view from a hot air balloon… I was in just the right spot, as these folks flew directly overhead… […]
Finding relics of Alabama history can be as easy as going for a walk in the woods. The pictures below, taken by Rex Free of Moulton (in Lawrence county), are a good example of a time when a constant battle was being waged between moonshiners, the makers of illegal whiskey, and agents whose job was […]
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
