Dorms 40% destroyed, 40% severely damaged.

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<p>"At 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening, the Union University campus was devastated by serious tornadic activity, resulting in extensive damage to the facilities. Following a nearly five-hour emergency effort, all students -- including the 13 who were trapped in the fallen rubble -- were rescued. Fifty-one students were taken to the hospital, nine of whom suffered serious injury. By God’s providence, no lives were lost.</p>

<p>Seventeen buildings received some kind of damage. Approximately 40 percent of the dorms were destroyed, and another 40 percent were severely damaged. Additional damage has been observed in other academic and administrative buildings. The damage from this storm exceeds the impact of the 2002 tornado by 15-fold..."</p>

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<p>wow, just wow....thanks for the link</p>

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<p>The aerial film shown on NBC evening News last PM at 6:30 EST of the dorms and university left me speechless. You could see that even Brian Williams was moved by the devestation. They interviewed a student who was initially caught up in the rubble and had to be rescued. My heart went out to the students affected.</p>

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<p>Wow. And yet at the same time, I wish the focus would be on families that did lose a loved one.</p>

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<p>Oh my gosh, that is TERRIBLE. Pray for those who were endangered.</p>

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<p>Thank goodness no one was killed. I would be freaking out if it were my son's college. Back in the 50s a tornado hit a dorm at Assumption College in Worcester, MA and killed several people. How scary.</p>

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<p>I would hope the school would simply lift off the pressure of grades for this entire term, from everyone, by some kind of Credit/No Entry option on every course, and cover the transcripts with a big word about the tornado.</p>

<p>I thought of this when I saw a news picture of a kid's crushed computer, and another room with mattress and papers all scattered everywhere. The student interviewed was just trying to figure out where to sleep for the next several days. </p>

<p>I'm thinking: how can the kid with the crushed computer possibly compete with the kid whose computer made it through? How can you penalize those whose notebooks got scattered.</p>

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<p>Thank god nobody's dead.</p>

<p>To this day, I cry like a baby when I see video clips of Air France flight 358 (or whatever the flight number is) that crashed in Toronto.....and all passengers and crew survived. So I'm not gonna see the video clips, but yeah.</p>

<p>I'd hope the school would move them into hotels and bus them back and forth from class. A gym is not proper shelter. Oh, and the school should abolish grades schoolwide for the semester.</p>