Ark. gov. ‘frustrated’ with tornado response
The News Review:
- Ark. gov. ‘frustrated’ with tornado response
- Hurricane Katrina gave Lewis new outlook on life
- Funerals And Cleanup In Tornado-Torn Town Services For Students…
- Teen Heroes Emerge When Tornado Rips Through Alabama High School
- Georgia Tornado Strips Area of Medical Services
- Tornado rips through Klerksdorp suburbs
Ark. gov. ‘frustrated’ with tornado response
USA Today – Mar 5, 2007
Also Beebe and Ross have asked the White House to send Desha County some of the 8000 trailers being stored at the Hope Municipal Airport by FEMA. The trailers were originally bought to shelter survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published broadcast rewritten or redistributed.
Hurricane Katrina gave Lewis new outlook on life
ESPN – Mar 5, 2007
Then came August 29 2005. “The day I was cut [by Tampa Bay] was the same day Katrina hit New rleans and I was getting ready to go back home thinking nothing about it” said Lewis who first saw the devastation on his hotel TV while he was packing. “A lot of people I knew were giving hurricane parties because there were countless times we heard hurricanes were about to hit and at the last second it would turn and hit Texas or something. We started to think we were indestructible; we’d always thought the storm would never hit us. ” A blessing in disguiseLewis was like so many others. He lost his football and track trophies.
Funerals And Cleanup In Tornado-Torn Town Services For Students…
CBS News – Mar 5, 2007
Disaster recovery centers to aid storm victims opened Sunday as bulldozers clearing debris moved up and down streets. Insurance company vans drove through neighborhoods filled with residents still picking up scattered possessions and storm wreckage. An elderly woman killed by the same tornado that hit the high school was buried Sunday reports CBS affiliate WTVY. Residents paused from recovery efforts Sunday to mourn at church services where some lined up to hug and offer words of encouragement for the school superintendent. “I just want everybody to really keep these families in their prayers because those were precious children that were lost” said Nancy Jennings a math teacher at the school “and we all feel like they were our family. ” First Baptist Church parishioners gave Superintendent Jim Reese a standing ovation after the pastor thanked him for his service to the community. Some in this southeast Alabama city of 22000 wondered whether officials at Enterprise High School erred by not sending students home early on Thursday after they learned of the tornado warnings.
Teen Heroes Emerge When Tornado Rips Through Alabama High School
ABC News – Mar 5, 2007
com)He and seven other students were killed last Thursday when a tornado tore through Enterprise High School in Enterprise Ala. “He was born on Mother’s Day” Laura Jackson said. “He’s my Mother’s Day baby.
Georgia Tornado Strips Area of Medical Services
New York Times – Mar 5, 2007
“We are a community without close medical care and that is a concern we all have because we are not prepared at any time to say ‘I’ll just put off all my medical needs for an extensive period of time. ‘ “The storm left the area’s only hospital the 143-bed Sumter Regional Hospital a shell of a building. The tornado also hit a row of doctors’ offices and wiped out the newly opened Sumter HealthPlex an 8000-square-foot $3. 1 million facility owned by the hospital. The HealthPlex had offered X-rays and laboratory services and had been widely used by the community said David Seagraves the president and chief executive of Sumter Regional Hospital. Immediately after the storm about 55 patients including women in labor and newborns were transferred to facilities in three neighboring counties. Doctors and nurses set up a makeshift clinic at the Americus First Baptist Church providing insulin to.
Tornado rips through Klerksdorp suburbs
Independent nline – Mar 5, 2007
This was all Reverend Sipho Ncapayi could utter as he stared at the remains of his church where a 78-year-old woman died and three others were injured. The woman was killed when a tornado lifted the roof off the Uniting Presbyterian church in Jouberton near Klerksdorp and caused masonry to collapse. The tornado ripped through suburbs around Klerksdorp on Sunday blowing off roofs collapsing walls uprooting trees and damaging cars. In some cases roofs were blown 50 metres from houses. According to Emergency services about 350 people were injured most non serious. Seven people were admitted to hospital… This was all Reverend Sipho Ncapayi could utter as he stared at the remains of his church where a 78-year-old woman died and three others were injured. The woman was killed when a tornado lifted the roof off the Uniting Presbyterian church in Jouberton near Klerksdorp and caused masonry to collapse. The tornado ripped through suburbs around Klerksdorp on Sunday blowing off roofs collapsing walls uprooting trees and damaging cars. In some cases roofs were blown 50 metres from houses. According to Emergency services about 350 people were injured most non serious. Seven people were admitted to hospital. The worst-hits areas were the townships of Jouberton Alabama and the industrial area of Uraniaville.