Batpuff
03-02-2007, 08:18 AM
• Erin Garcia, 17, was inside school sitting, praying
• Storm "sounded like bunch of people trying to beat wall down"
• "I kept seeing people with blood on their faces"
• Storm hit stadium and "there were trees and wood everywher
ENTERPRISE, Alabama (AP) -- With no time to send students home as storms raced their way, officials herded Erin Garcia and her high school classmates into the halls.
Outside, the skies grew so dark that lights at the airport came on in the middle of the day.
Then the tornado sirens started up. (Watch twister scream into Enterprise (javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/us/2007/03/01/von.alabama.tornado.wdhn','2007/03/15','2007/03/02');) http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif (javascript:cnnVideo('play','javascript:cnnVideo(' play','/video/us/2007/03/01/von.alabama.tornado.wdhn','2007/03/15','2007/03/02');','2007/03/02');))
And inside Enterprise High School, the lights went out.
"I was just sitting there praying the whole time," said Garcia, a 17-year-old senior.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/03/02/enterprise.storm.ap/index.html
• Storm "sounded like bunch of people trying to beat wall down"
• "I kept seeing people with blood on their faces"
• Storm hit stadium and "there were trees and wood everywher
ENTERPRISE, Alabama (AP) -- With no time to send students home as storms raced their way, officials herded Erin Garcia and her high school classmates into the halls.
Outside, the skies grew so dark that lights at the airport came on in the middle of the day.
Then the tornado sirens started up. (Watch twister scream into Enterprise (javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/us/2007/03/01/von.alabama.tornado.wdhn','2007/03/15','2007/03/02');) http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif (javascript:cnnVideo('play','javascript:cnnVideo(' play','/video/us/2007/03/01/von.alabama.tornado.wdhn','2007/03/15','2007/03/02');','2007/03/02');))
And inside Enterprise High School, the lights went out.
"I was just sitting there praying the whole time," said Garcia, a 17-year-old senior.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/03/02/enterprise.storm.ap/index.html