Yeah, the HS is pretty much destroyed. Was just reading their facebook posts...
Big mess for the school district. Good thing graduation was at the college/earlier in the day
Remaining schools and the college being used as shelters, etc
I am always terrified of what happens when a big tornado hits a school while it is in session. The video from the helicopter clearly shows several schools destroyed, one of which looked like the high school or voc school.
Any reports if any of the deaths were at the hospital? The structure itself looked mostly intact, even if it was all blown out. The cars/helicopter, etc showed it was hit pretty bad.
The two previous posts by wxmann and CapeFear made good points.
Was this storm particularly fast moving? I have only so far seen one "on the ground" video from a chaser and it seemed to be tracking rather quickly. Would this contribute to more fatalities somehow?
90 fatalities so far, tying Worcester 1953... possibly many more to be found. Very sad
On one of the networks (TWC?) Al Roker was at the hospital site and was saying he talked to a nurse who was on the 6th floor. They had been told a twister might be there in 15-20 minutes and it arrived in less than 5 minutes.
Seemed to surprise people.
Awful awful scenes. Can't believe this year.
Sadly, the 14 inches went down the drain mostly (we ended up with about 6-8" after the rain)
Somehow I had 76" overall...but those were the best 2 events