i just can't bealve those kids where still in the school! what are your feelings on this? and please pray for those who have yet to be found. thank you.
2007-03-01 12:13:38 · 6 answers · asked by rblankenship_rblankenship 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
sorry, it's in alabama
2007-03-01 12:22:19 · update #1
my kids's school sent the kids home 2 hours before the storm hit us. i don't understand why they didn't send them home when they got the warning.
2007-03-01 12:28:08 · update #2
I can absolutely believe that the kids were still in school and I have to tell you, I support that decision even though 8 kids were lost. I graduated from Enterprise High School in 1996. They were in the safest place that they could've been during such horrible weather. We had tornado drills at least 2-3 times each semester and we were all taught that we move into the innermost halls of the school and crouch all the way down with our heads between our knees facing the wall. They were definitely prepared in their emergency plan. The problem with letting a bunch of 15-17 year olds leave in the middle of a storm is that no one takes it seriously. Everyone who has been that age remembers thinking that we knew it all. I know from personal experience that if they would have let those students go, they would have been riding around all over town and hanging out with their friends in the parking lots of McDonald's, Sonic, or across the street from Westgate Shopping Center. When was the last time that anyone can remember rain keeping you from hanging out on a day when school was not in session? It wouldn't have stopped those students, either. What would everyone be saying if they had lost more students in the 8 miles of destruction that lies in Enterprise right now??? Yes, 8 MILES THROUGHOUT ENTERPRISE HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. More students would have been lost in the hundreds of houses that have been decimated had they all actually been at home! What if they would have been riding around and their cars smashed to pieces with the students in them? Then everyone would be asking 'Why did they let the students go? Why didn't they keep them in the building?' The point is, Enterprise High School was made of solid brick and concrete. If there was any place in that town that would've been the safest place to take shelter during the tornado, it would be there. It just so happens that it was in the DIRECT PATH of an F3 tornado and nothing could have been done to predict that. Any building, no matter what it is made of, will be destroyed in the direct path of a tornado. The problem with tornadoes is that no one can predict their paths. I promise you, those faculty members made the best decision that they could have with the information that they had. Enterprise is a small town and we are all like family. They would've never done anything to risk jeopardizing the lives of those kids. Case in point: Many of the faculty members at the school had children that were students there. They treated all of the students as if they were their own. They felt as if their own children were safest in that building and tried to keep the other students just as safe. Please know that this is a horrible tragedy and I personally know some of the people that were lost in this storm and I know MANY who lost everything that they had. I absolutely support the decision to keep the kids in school. If you look at the situation that way with all of the details of the school, the emergency preparedness, and the town itself, you can probably start to understand why things happened the way that it did and how nothing more could have been done to prevent it from occurring.
2007-03-04 09:02:40 · answer #1 · answered by jcmd2010 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I graduated from EHS and now live about 20 miles away in Ozark. I just found out this morning that my best friend in high school, Bill Tompkins, lost his son Michael in the tornado. One of the things that we don't need here is somebody stirring up trouble second guessing the school administrators about why there were still children at the school. We live in "tornado alley", there have been at least five tornados hit the E'prise area in the last few years, numerous tornados in the local area, they are a fact of life here. What difference does it make if the kids were at school or at home or on the road somewhere, you cannot predict where a tornado will hit. If the school had kicked all the students out and then some of them were killed on the way home, somebody would complain about how the school screwed that up too. You just can't make some people happy. Right now I just wish all the people trying to stir something up over this would just shut up and mind your own business.
2007-03-03 00:58:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow! i think everyone should pray for them! I remember one time at school we were under a tornado WARNING! and we never went to go take shelter like the sky was green and it started hailing and the wind got bad. The teacher made us stay away from the windows but still. I think that every Tornado Warning should be taken serious!
2007-03-01 15:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by Nelzy 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 23:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you where should they have been. in north carolina we have have tornado drills in school and we just go and sit in the hallway.
an di will pray for those yet to be found
they probally thought it would be safer incase teh storm came fast and everything. cuz think how much worse it could have been if they all were on buses.
its kinda scary cuz im in north carolina n we have a tornado watch now. so im kinda scared
2007-03-01 12:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by gousa1991 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I seen it.
2007-03-02 16:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋