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May 2, 2014Mayor’s World Remade in an Instant
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — In the weeks before the tornadoes demolished one-seventh of his city, Walter Maddox was doing what mayors in small cities do.
There were health care costs to contain and new fire trucks to consider.
Then his job changed forever, and nothing in his 38 years could have prepared him.
Not his years running a school personnel department, his success on the collegiate football field or even the emotional strength it took to weather parenthood, divorce and remarriage…