Residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama are surveying the damage after a deadly tornado ripped through the college town, leaving a trail of devastation and destruction in its wake. The tornado was one of the biggest to hit Alabama ever.

Reuters reported: "In scenes reminiscent of the kind of destruction wrought by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the jumbled rubble of shattered homes and businesses lay entangled with crushed cars, uprooted trees and downed power lines."

"I don't know how anyone survived ... it's an amazing scene, there's parts of the city that I don't recognize," Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox told CNN.

Alabama has been the hardest hit by severe storms that have slammed six southern states. At least 194 people have been killed in Alabama. At least 37 people were killed in Tuscaloosa. A State of Emergency in all of the state's counties.

The state's Gov. Robert Bentley visited Tuscaloosa on Thursday, During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Bentley called the tornadoes that have ravaged his state a "major, major disaster."

"We were prepared," he said. "But you just cannot prepare against an F5 tornado."

Video shot by Clay Hasenfuss from his Tuscaloosa apartment shows a massive tornado narrowly missing the University of Alabama's Bryant-Denney Stadium, home to the Crimson Tide's football team. In the wake of the devastation, the University of Alabama has cancelled final exams and rescheduled its commencement--which was to be held on May 7--for August 6.

Watch the incredible video of the storm grazing Bryant-Denney Stadium: