Thank you helpers, police, fire, all the volunteers (watching tornado)

[uppityperson]

All the flashing lights and all the people helping and searching and trying to not freak out but help each other.

[MichiganVote]

1. And the Teachers?

[uppityperson]

2. Them too of course. And everyone else helping.

[MichiganVote]

3. What do you imagine it was like for those teachers before that tornado hit?

[uppityperson]

4. Having been in an F5, I don't have to imagine and in no way meant to not include them or make light

of them. My apologies for not including them in my quickly worded post hours ago as they should also be included.

[MichiganVote]

5. I believe you. I post this to show that we are responsible for how our media

depersonalizes us among ourselves. Its so pervasive we don't realize its happening. The media gets off cheap. We need to demand more of them or we all become "staff" somewhere at sometime.

[uppityperson]

6. I posted right as the first responders showed up. Listening to the live feed and fuck. Kids drowned

in the school. Pulled a dead infant out of the debris. Oh damn.

Anyone who helped during this, in any way, before, during after, thank you and tears.

[MichiganVote]

7. Yup. Wonder if they had a daycare on site.

Its one of the ways that schools attempt to reach out in communities or add to the balance sheet these days b/c the public education dime is so cheap nowadays.