Outdoors Notebook: North Alabama tornadoes close six state parks in region

05/01/11 Buck's Pocket, Cathedral Caverns, DeSoto, Lake Guntersville, Monte Sano and Rickwood Caverns state parks are all closed until further notice. The power is out at all of these parks and water is out at most of them, Easterwood said.

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State park on mend after EF-2 tornado hit

05/17/11 Lake Guntersville State Park is expected to reopen the first week in June, if not by Memorial Day. Five of the six Alabama state parks that were closed due to storm damage on April 27 - Buck's Pocket, Cathedral Caverns, DeSoto, Monte Sano and Rickwood Caverns - have already reopened.

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Power outage in east Huntsville

06/02/11 Parts of Jones Valley, Monte Sano and Hampton Cove lost power at about 2 p.m. when a substation in Big Cove lost power, Huntsville Utilities said.

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