Click here for linkRVs with Alabama flags again rolled across these streets Friday afternoon as fans began to fill the city.
Most are here to cheer another promising season for the second-ranked Tide. Today is the season opener against Kent State, Nick Saban's alma mater.
The days following April 27 and the tornado that plowed through neighborhoods just south of campus - one of many tornadoes across the South that day - attracted people from across the country. There were volunteers, curiosity seekers, celebrities, reporters, even President Barack Obama toured the damage.