Posted on 03/04/2019 5:08:22 AM PST by SisterK
Few news reports are saying this, but Beauregard is in the same county as Auburn University though the university is several miles away and apparently was unaffected by the tornadoes.
Looking at Beauregard on Google Earth, it is a rural community of homes and a few businesses built along a highway or two. It has a high school and elementary school and the HS has around 480 students who are doubtless drawn from rural areas for several miles away. The tornadoes must have almost tracked along the highway to damage as many homes as it did. Terrible damage and loss of life in a rural area.
Amen
Hugs back. I’m a new addition to your beautiful state.
Praying.
Amen. Thank you, Hiskid.
Amen
May His light and His love fill this community.
Thank you for your uplifting thoughts and concern for our community.
Yes, we are a rural community located in the same county as Auburn University. WAR EAGLE!
Beauregard High School - Go Hornets! - has about 750 students, grades 9-12. I teach at the feeder middle school, Sanford, which has an enrollment of about 630 students, grades 5-8. The elementary school, grades K-4, serves about 680 students. We are one of four county school districts and two city school systems (Opelika and Auburn) in Lee County.
Beauregard is located on Hwy 51 about 6 miles south of I-85. Our middle school is about 3 miles from the high school and elementary school.
Hwy 280, the four-lane where the fallen cell tower blocked west-bound traffic, also runs through the county from Birmingham to Columbus, GA.
Absolute terrible damage and loss of life to which our community members and first-responders have risen to support one another.
Thank you to our Lee County Emergency Management, Lee County Sheriff, Deputies, Coroner, volunteer fire departments, churches, local businesses, East Alabama Medical Center...
We are not all blood-related, but we are akin. What a WONDERFUL place to live!!
Welcome to Alabama, mm!!
My family relocated here from Virginia, about 20 years ago.
Thank you. Very happy to be here.
Thank you for your reply. I’d heard several news reports today saying Beauregard is ____ miles from Atlanta until it began to irk me a little. I think saying it is in the same county as Auburn University and ____ miles from Montgomery is a much better description.
My old high school (CCHS) merged into Central High School of Clay County a few years back and, of course, those schools and Beauregard have appeared on each other’s 5A football schedules in recent years. I got the BHS enrollment figure from the AHSAA site, but they might be counting a different number of classes.
Do you know if the high school and elementary schools survived the tornadoes? Hopefully so because those would be rallying points for the community and some familiar routines could be resumed.
Will be thinking about and praying for the Beauregard community as it starts the recovery process.
Jemian did you see this thread?
Standing with all in prayer
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No, I missed it. Thanks.
Again, thank you so much for your precious uplifting of our community.
Based on information available to me, the three Beauregard schools acquired no damage. The only school in the path of this horrible tornado to sustain damage is one of the elementary schools in the Smith Station district of Lee County Schools. To my understanding, an ac unit located on the roof was blown off, causing damage to numerous classrooms beneath that section of the school’s roof.
((Hugs))
We thank the Father, who has made all and given all there is. Let Your will be done. We ask that our sin be forgiven. We ask that all the mourners be comforted, and that You speed healing to the injured and sick, and that restoration be granted through all of us in the Body, the State and through our Nation to those who have suffered repairable physical loss. with love for your Son we ask for His sake, In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
I am so sorry. You also are in my prayers as you process this loss.
Thank you, Jemian.
Heartfelt Amens, Dear SisterK. Standing in Agreement with you and with Everyone on the Thread.
Prayers
Rising in prayer with this community to uplift the victims in Alabama. Lord lighten the grief and heal the injured. Have mercy. For the peace from above.
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