After Tornado an Alabama School Tallies the Grief
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- After Tornado an Alabama School Tallies the Grief
- Bush Tours Tornado-Damaged Areas in South
- … Bush Arrives in Enterprise Alabama to Tour Tornado Damage;…
After Tornado an Alabama School Tallies the Grief
New York Times – Mar 3, 2007
Jackson said witnesses had told him and his wife a heroic story of their son’s last moments. Andrew held up a falling concrete beam long enough for another student to escape they told him and was then crushed by it. The tornado here was only the sharpest shard in huge storm system that produced at least 31 tornadoes on Thursday and battered the nation’s midsection from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico killing 10 in… “You don’t expect to take a child to school then go back and pull him out of the rubble” said Maxie Searcy of Searcy’s Funeral Home where some of the relatives of the victims were headed. The Jacksons’ agony had been prolonged over 12 hours of waiting. After the tornado parents and students assembled in a dark church next to the school and church officials called out the students’ names. Parents awaited anxiously in the gloom for their child’s name to be spoken and for the longed-for response. When nobody responded to “A. Jackson” Laura Jackson Andrew’s mother said she knew something was wrong.
Bush Tours Tornado-Damaged Areas in South
Washington Post – Mar 3, 2007
He made a promise to the victims of Katrina as they got nothing in 18 months. The tornado victims should look for help else where as Bush is only there for photo ops. Watch for Cheney to get Halliburton involved just for the money and then leave with nothing done like he did with the Katrina storm. If Americans need help dont look for the Republicans or the White House for help. Now let Iraq or the war profiteers need 2… Dont worry though the photo op is over and the reality remains. Dont worry though the photo op is over and the reality remains. By jmc27106 | Mar 3 2007 10:28:54 PM |.
… Bush Arrives in Enterprise Alabama to Tour Tornado Damage;…
CNN International – Mar 3, 2007
You’ve got about a 200-yard-wide swathe that stretches about four miles. And then anywhere beyond that it’s as if nothing happened because frankly nothing did happen. This tornado came down it struck took out a significant swathe. But beyond that did not cause much damage. It’s very striking coming this as opposed to say the aftermath of a hurricane where the damage just goes on for mile and mile — mile after mile. In this case what you get is that kind of pin prick of damage but just does not in any way diminish the tragedy that people are feeling right here in this community of Enterprise eight students who were huddled in that interior hallway as that storm came in. A powerful storm with winds in the 135 to 160-mile-an-hour range… And there’s — there’s less of an overt sense of support. And a lot of times communities can get the feeling that they’re abandoned almost that they’re in it alone and that’s the thing you have to watch out for. I mean look at — look at the folks who dealt with Hurricane Katrina. You know 18 months later they’re still coming back. And in many respects you know certainly the level of attention that they receive on a day-to-day basis from the media is not what it was certainly after the storm. There you see Marine ne at the Enterprise airport not far from where we stand. And that’s just a couple of mile drive from where we are.