ICYMI: From PoliticsNation – President Obama shares his thoughts on parenthood and raising bright children
Remember this?
“he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.” —————– Mitt Romney, 6/8/12
Monday afternoon, second-grade teacher Tammy Glasgow was in her classroom when her husband shot her a text: “Storms are coming. Be careful.”
She tried to text back but her phone was out, and she couldn’t pull up websites to check the news.
Something had felt off for awhile that morning, Glasgow said. She knew the area. She knew what that could mean.
“It was kinda ominous, real humid, just had a bad feeling,” she said, walking with a CNN reporter on the school grounds now crowded with twisted metal, rebar and piles of concrete blocks. A bright yellow playground set stood out amid the gray.
Glasgow said that just before the twister hit, she went to the window. The kids were singing the National Anthem.
“You could just see it,” she said.
An announcement came on the loudspeaker to get to a safe place.
She quickly hustled 12 girls into a girls’ bathroom. A worried father who’d already shown up to the school helped get boys into the boys’ bathroom. Another teacher, a counselor and three other kids got in a closet, Glasgow said.
“Before I shut the doors [to the boys’ bathroom], I said, ‘I’m gonna shut these doors. I love you.'” The boys looked at me a little strange.”
Glasgow’s own son was in the bathroom. She looked at him for a moment.
“I just said, ‘Watch over them. Take care of them.'”
Then she told the girls she loved them.
“We love you back!” they chimed.
The twister was on top of them.
“It was so loud you couldn’t hear anything and it was forever and ever,” Glasgow said. “I just assumed that it would be quick but it stayed and stayed. Stuff was falling on us. We had books on our heads.”
She looked up and apparently through the roof and saw the tornado. “It was just brown, huge, never ending … all the way up to the heavens.”
A cinderblock fell on her neck.
Finally, a light rain started and the sky got lighter.
She heard voices and the opening of doors. The kids were crying. But everyone was OK.
