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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking:All trapped kids accounted for at one school:
@NewsBreaker: BREAKING; Reporter on @News9:
Kids at elementary school in question in Moore, OK are all accounted for.
And that is a miracle.
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)Must be some relieved parents in OK tonight...
lapfog_1
(29,239 posts)It will be tomorrow before we start getting the accurate count of the dead and missing.
We can hope for the best, but the devastation doesn't look good for there not to be any deaths from this.
lapfog_1
(29,239 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)thankfully, one is all accounted for
Texasgal
(17,049 posts)I can breathe for a minute
zerosumgame0005
(207 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)@hollybdc: KWTV: All the kids at Briarwood Elem School have been accounted for. School took a direct hit #okctornado
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)great news!
denverbill
(11,489 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Miracle indeed!
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)The 4th, 5th and 6th grades were evacuated to a church. K through 3rd grade stayed at school in hallways and bathrooms.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)and stringent building codes, enforced by government. And excellent emergency systems, also government.
Journeyman
(15,043 posts)to have underground shelters for all their charges? Sheltering in a hallway is best if there's no other place to be,* but a sealed shelter with food, water, and communications would seem a requirement, would it not?
In the early '70s, I was stationed in Texas. We were called upon to go to the aid of a small town just across the border. The image that's seared in my mind is a U-shaped retirement home (similar to the dorm I was living in at the time) where the residents had huddled in the base of the U for protection against the storm. Both wings of the building were demolished and the top two floors of the base of the U ripped away, but all those huddled in the first floor walked away.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)"Because it's expensive."
madokie
(51,076 posts)once born they're on their own
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)is 40 years. Many are, of course, much older. This is a good link to research the topic.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin131.shtml
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)But a miracle worthy of some prayers to whomever you pray to.
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)It doesn't mean there are no casualties.
I'd wait for the full report before becoming celebratory.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)Seven bodies pulled from an elementary school, 20 to 30 more unaccounted for.
This is not going to be good.