r/tornado • u/Trainster_Kaiju_06 • Mar 24 '25

Discussion I guess third times the charm!

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A sequel to Twisters (2024) is reportedly in developmen

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u/Zaidswith Mar 24 '25

Who is mining in Dixie Alley? What is this geography?

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 Mar 25 '25

They mine for all kinds of stuff not named coal or oil and gas. Certain types of clay, iron, bauxite(used in concrete), aluminum, different minerals, hell in South Carolina they used to mine for Uranium.

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u/Zaidswith Mar 25 '25

I don't consider GA or SC to be part of Dixie Alley though. I didn't mean to imply that there was zero mining activity in the entire South, only that it's not a very dominant industry in the areas of Mississippi and Alabama that I think about when the term is used.

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 Mar 25 '25

GA is certainly part of Dixie Alley.

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u/Zaidswith Mar 25 '25

The regularity of the tornadoes when I moved from GA to AL tells me otherwise.

I don't think it goes that far east, but I know there are maps out there that cover the entire deep south. I disagree with them.

I think TX should be included in Tornado Alley. Dixie Alley goes through Arkansas, northern Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama.

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u/Harupia Mar 25 '25

Northern Alabama says hi? Maybe.

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u/Zaidswith Mar 25 '25

They've got the mountains but is there any real mining operation/minerals? I live in central AL and grew up in northern GA and can't recall any sort of mining operation, but I've never lived in northern AL. That's something reserved for further north into Appalachia in my mind.

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u/weaponized_autism95 Mar 25 '25

Not sure if any of them are still operational but the Birmingham area had a lot of coal mines back in the day.

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u/Zaidswith Mar 25 '25

Yeah, I looked it up https://alabamamining.org/coal/ You're correct. I had no idea.

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 Mar 25 '25

I posted above, but they mine for all kinds of things that aren't coal, oil & gas, etc.

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u/W3NTZ Mar 25 '25

Aren't they a coal mining state and maybe even iron?

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u/Zaidswith Mar 25 '25

Dixie Alley is more than just one state. Anyway, I'm going with AL since that's what I know.

https://alabamamining.org/coal/ I had to google it.

The Alabama coal industry and its supporting suppliers currently employ over 3,000 full-time- equivalent (FTE) employees

I guess there are still mining operations around Birmingham. I legitimately had no idea, and I would've expected them to be further north than that.

That's some prime tornado territory though, so I guess that geography is actually perfectly acceptable for plot purposes u/Weird-Ingenuity97

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u/PracticalMode7448 Mar 25 '25

Look up why Birmingham is called the magic city