It's Amazing What We Have To Endure

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A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City (5/20/13).
 At least 20 children dead

An applicable comment on a news article I read:

“I grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas. That town has seen its share of tornadoes. The elementary and junior high schools I attended did not have basements or tornado shelters. They just stuck us in the hall.

I moved to Sherman, TX where they had just built a brand new, multi-million dollar high school. No basement. Fifty years later, most of the public schools in Texas and Oklahoma still don’t have basements, safe rooms, or tornado shelters. My dad was in the nursing home in Stillwater when the tornado sirens went off. No safe room, no shelter, no basement. There just isn’t anywhere for our most vulnerable populations to go when there is a tornado. Yes, I have a tornado shelter in my house. They just don’t put basements in houses here (or in Texas).

Hats off to Oklahoma State University which has huge basements under most of its classroom and research buildings. But basements for little kids in elementary school? They’re out of luck.”

I’m from Wichita Falls, too, and this has always made me wonder, too, why it is that NO schools provide shelter. We always were made to go into the hall and cover our heads. Just not cost-efficient, I guess.

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Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam’s Club
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City lead­ers in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruc­tion of a 1,500-year-old Native Amer­i­can cer­e­mo­ni­al mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam’s Club, a retail ware­house store operated by Wal-Mart.{C}A University of Alabama archaeology report commissioned by the city found that the site was historically significant as the largest of several ancient stone and earthen mounds throughout the Choccolocco Valley. ButOxford Mayor Leon Smith — whose campaign has financial connections to firms involved in the $2.6 million no-bid project — insists the mound is not man-made and was used only to “send smoke signals.” […]

Have we learned nothing from Stephen King?

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