Tornado survivors prepare to graduate
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Folding chairs stood on a freshly cleared football field Thursday as a high school wrecked by a tornado prepared for graduation ceremonies, with seats set aside in memory of two seniors who died in the storm.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 20--Sarasota Manatee Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association is planning a hurricane preparedness seminar noon to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Fruitville Branch of the Sarasota Public Library at 100 Coburn Road.
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Strangers only a month ago, evacuees at one Florida shelter felt like old friends as they rode out Hurricane Jeanne at the same high school where they got acquainted during Hurricane Frances.
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Candra Pennington and other students scrambled to a bathroom as windows shattered and the ceiling collapsed when a tornado struck Jackson, Tennessee. "We were just shocked at what we saw," she said. In Memphis, a survivor said he's lucky to be alive: "I was thinking about my mom, and I was calling on Jesus."
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By Emeagwali, N Susan  BUTLER COUNTY AREA VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL EMPOWERS STUDENTS WITH THE SKILLS THEY NEED TO SUCCEED IN POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION AND THE WORKPLACE.
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Residents salvaged their belongings across an area of Central Florida devastated by tornado-bearing thunderstorms.
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Eight people died when an apparent tornado struck a high school in Alabama. Nine people were killed in Georgia.
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When 17-year-old Reyniza Sherrell was handed her high school diploma, two of her family members watched with admiration &#151; from thousands of miles away. Sherrell's father is deployed in Iraq and her older sister is stationed at an Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany, but both of them were watching live video online of her graduation Friday night in Clarksville.
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Kenyata Johnson is worried that her 7-year-old son may become an academic casualty of Hurricane Ivan. The first grader is among 92,000 Escambia and Santa Rosa county students who will return to their classrooms Monday after missing 19 school days because of the storm that slammed the Florida Panhandle on Sept. 15.
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One man pulled a couch over his head. Bank employees rushed into the vault. A woman trembled in her bathroom, clinging to her dogs. College students huddled in dormitories. Tornado warnings had been broadcast for hours, and when the sirens finally announced that the twisters had arrived, many people across the South took shelter and saved their lives.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that have left 640 people dead
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Moments after a tornado leveled the rural homes where four generations of a family lived side by side, a farmer heard his friend and neighbor's faint screams.
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Communities across the  U.S. South grieved for the dead and tried to pick up their  lives on Thursday after the deadliest round of tornadoes in  nearly a quarter century killed 57 people.
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Tornadoes across the southern United States killed at least 20 people as they tore up a hospital and high school where students huddled for shelter, authorities said on Friday, a day after the rampage.
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Stoneham parents, teachers and counselors will do their best to help scores of kids return to school this morning after being traumatized by Friday&#39;s gruesome accident at Central Elementary
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By Jana Hollingsworth, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 7--During last week's blizzard in Duluth, colleges and universities used many methods to alert students to campus closings.   The College of St. Scholastica sent a mass e-mail to students and staff.