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« on: May 25, 2013, 01:04:58 pm »Message ID: 741489
I grew up in tornado valley (or as we used to call it "tornado alley") and as a child I was petrified every Spring with all the tornado warnings and running to the basement and hearing those glaring sirens almost every evening. Although I was never actually in a tornado all those years, thank God, I knew people who did survive one. Never knew anyone who died in one. I find it very sad that after all this time, those schools in Kansas and Oklahoma were actually built with no type of shelter or basement or anything to keep those kids safe. In that part of the country it is a given that every year there are going to be deadly tornadoes striking somewhere in that region. That is just inexcusable. It those kids had been at home, they probably would have at least had a chance to go into their basements and survive.