On Wednesday April 27, 2011, much of the southern United States was hit by one of the worst tornado storm systems in recorded history. I expect that all of you have seen some news reports about this. OAR Corporation is in Huntsville Alabama and hosts the servers and lab for the RTEMS Project. None of OAR was damaged but the main power transmission lines for north Alabama and Mississippi were destroyed by the storm. There are still areas in our county without power one week later.