At nearly every bend in the roads they took in Alabama, nine Stanislaus State students were reminded they weren’t in California anymore. But for the group, participating in the Habitat for Humanity-sponsored Alternative Spring Break, perhaps nothing made them long for home quite as much as the moment they were sitting in a Birmingham diner during a fierce southern rain and a tornado warning siren went off. “That rain was much different than anything we experience in California,” said senior kinesiology student Diego Martinez.