During a break from work and on my way out of town I took the time to walk through my parent’s neighborhood and the neighborhood to the southwest of Enterprise High School.  I took a number of pictures along the way and many of them are posted below.  There are a lot of pictures in this post, so it may take a while to download.  The ones in the post are thumbnails; click on them to see the larger image.

It should be kept in mind that these pictures were taken between about 48 and 60 hours after the tornado.  You can imagine how much worse things looked immediately afterward.

First, here is a map of Enterprise with the path of the tornado indicated by the red arrow.  The path is approximate, I may be off by a block here and there, but it is pretty accurate.  The location of the high school is indicated as well as the two neighborhoods my pictures come from.  The first is my parent’s neighborhood, which is circled in the northeast part of the map.  The second is the neighborhood to the southwest of the high school, which includes the city cemetery, in the center of the map.  If you are curious about the location of any specific picture feel free to email me (brian-at-flashpointblog-dot-com)

The first five pictures are of the building known to many as the Big & Little convenience store, more recently the Enterprise Meat Market, located on the corner of Dixie Drive and Hwy 27.  It should be noted that the building was constructed with cinder blocks.

Yes, that is an RV in the next picture.

The next two pictures are of the art store opened by former EHS art teacher Sherry Eddins, which was directly across Dixie Drive from the former Big & Little.

The view down Dixie Drive from Hwy 27:

The next few pictures are from the segment of Dixie Drive from Hwy 27 to the intersection of Lake Oliver Drive.

The car in the background of the next picture is sitting on the front of a house.

The next pictures are from Lake Oliver Drive.

The house across the street from the previous one is completely gone.  Amazingly, a mother and her child were in the house when the tornado struck.

The next house belongs to the parents of a friend I went to high school with.  Her dad was in the closet door you can see in the middle of the first picture.

Notice the 2×4’s protruding from the roofs of the houses in the next two pictures.

The next pictures are from Oliver Drive and Lake Hill Drive.

The only part of the fence that once separated my parent’s house and their neighbor’s house is the gate.  We made a point of using it since it was still there.

Our neighbor’s house:

The next house was swept off its slab.

The two houses directly across the street appear nearly untouched.  Potted ferns still hang outside one of them.

The remainder of the pictures were taken Sunday morning in the neighborhood southwest of EHS.

The last picture is of the city cemetery.  Notice the brick column supported wrought iron fence that was knocked over as well as the tombstones that were overturned.

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