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CARY—As Alabama cleans up from the massive tornadoes that left more than 340 people dead and thousands injured, siblings from North Carolina feel fortunate to be alive.

Danielle and Lee Drago, who attend the University of Alabama, made it home safely to Cary this weekend after tornadoes tore apart their college campus and surrounding area in Tuscaloosa. Now back safe and sound with their parents, the siblings think of the horrific damage left behind in Tuscaloosa.

"It looks like just shambles,” said Lee Drago, a college freshman. “You can't tell houses from houses, there's parts of houses on other houses. There's cars through houses. It's bad."

Both were on campus Wednesday during the tornado outbreak and had to take refuge in the hallway of the same dorm.

"There were about 150 kids on the first floor of our dorm, just kind of huddling and keeping each other calm as much as possible," said Danielle Drago.

When the pair surveyed the aftermath, they could not believe all the damage and debris that cluttered what had been their home for the past three years. The two stepped in to help out in any way they could.

"We helped clear debris out of people's yards, we flipped a shed, and the rest of the day we patched a roof," said Lee Drago.

The siblings would still be there lending a hand had the school not asked all out of town students to return home. Looking back, they feel a true sense of relief.

"I think we'll just remember how lucky that we were and all the people that we knew, how lucky they were to still be here," said Danielle Drago.

The University of Alabama canceled spring exams and graduation. Classes will resume in the Fall. Since the tornado destroyed the City's emergency management center, the college's football stadium was turned into a makeshift facility.