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The red-faced man punched a number into his cellphone. "This is Councilman Kip Tyner," he said. "Listen, I need your help ..." A woman approached in a T-shirt soiled by the struggle: "Hey, Kip." Then came an elderly man, his Prom Dresses 2011 creased with worry: "Hey, Kip." For Tyner, revitalizing Tuscaloosa's downtrodden Alberta neighborhood has been his life's great mission. He was born and raised in this modest area just east of the University of Alabama. It's where his family taught him how to love amid the racial turbulence of the 20th-century South. It's the neighborhood Cocktail Dresses has represented on the City Council for 14 years, a place that had been on the upswing.Then came April 27, when the tornadoes leveled block after block of houses, ripping scores of once-stately trees from the earth. Now, Tyner has a new mission, rebuilding Alberta, and residents are increasingly turning to the man who fought for the neighborhood when some others just ignored it. "Hey, Kip." The woman in the soiled Fitted Sweetheart Neck Beaded Long Prom Dress was close to tears. He gripped her by the shoulder and pulled her close. "We just so messed up," she said. "We ain't got no lights on Second Street East. And they breaking in in our neighborhood." The elderly man asked if he could he use Tyner's phone to call his boss. Tyner handed it over. A heavyset young woman approached, one arm Flirt Empire Waist Strapless Beaded Prom Dress a plastic grocery bag, the other hanging in a sling. "Did you hurt your arm in the storm?" he asked. "Yes sir," she replied. "But how you doing, Mr. Tyner?" It has been better. The tornados that claimed at least 340 lives across the South killed 41 in Tuscaloosa. Nine of them he counted as friends. His own house was beaten to hell. "It's like a member of the family died, Alberta's so ingrained in me," he said this past Monday morning, the fifth day after the tornadoes.