Nebraska Video.

Whenever someone hears the word tornado, Nebraska among other things is what first comes to mind. The Midwest is well known for their weird weather conditions and freaky tornado sightings and touches.
I went to Westgate Elementary. In 1967, so years before I was there, a huge tornado swept through Omaha.It went right past my neighborhood and headed straight for the school I would attend in the future. The school was completely destroyed and so it was rebuilt from the ground up. Now, the new renovation has an underground tornado shelter, which still has yet to be used for real. All schools hear the tornado sirens go off and all of the students head to the bathroom or to a far off corner of the classroom away from the windows. I bet it feels real safe. I on the other hand, got to go down to a basement with everyone from the school and wait out the storm.
Through the 7 years I was there I was only down in that shelter once. Once was enough though. The sirens went off and the whole school headed down there. Since we were all so young the teachers couldn’t leave us to just sit there and wait it out. There were many kids crying and very worried for what was going to happen. For three hours down in that shelter we sang songs, played games and did anything to keep our minds off the storm. It was then that I played the longest game of telephone ever in the history of telephone.
If you have lived in Nebraska you would know that tornados hardly ever actually touch the ground. (Knock on wood) This was the case here too. The weather was bad though. When we got out we went outside to see our school looking very different than it had that same morning. Trees were all over the neighborhood; everything was wet, blown over and damaged.