Posted on 12/03/2016 3:53:36 PM PST by metmom
Bremen High School teacher Jessica Labbe knew there was severe weather in the forecast. A line of powerful thunderstorms was about to hit Haralton County, Georgia.
Just after lunch, the tornado sirens began blaring across town. And inside her classroom, cell phones beeped and buzzed – warning students of dangerous weather.
Tornado Warning.
Teachers ushered their students into a hallway so they could be sheltered from the storm.
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Very moving video recording of it.
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When I was a kid we used to sing during the terrifying air raid drills.
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I was stuck at Wendy’s on lunch break just down the road in Temple when the sirens started.
Haralson* County
Zeppelins over London?
/ducks and hides
I remember the air raid drills but no one dared make a sound.
You’d have taken you life in your hands.
And then you’d have to go home and face your parents.
“Zeppelins over London?
/ducks and hides
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Yep,but I always ate my Wheaties and voila! Here I am.
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The only songs we spontaneously sung in grade school, particularly on bus rides, was “100 bottle of beer”.
We had singing when we were in school during airaids-—in the basement—— this was Boston,but it must have been different for you.
Keeping silent must have been tough.
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Oh, one more “glory, glory hallelujah teacher hit me with a ruler”.
“Oh, one more “glory, glory hallelujah teacher hit me with a ruler”.
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That’s a new one to me-—it’s rather clever. Since I was a Boston kid we would have said “roolah” so the rhyming would be pretty good.
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Buffalo NY area.
We crouched under our desks or sheltered in the coat room and then filed outside for the fire drill that immediately followed.
You went OUTSIDE during an air raid drill——or did you go out after the all-clear sounded?
God,it seems like yesterday sometimes.
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was it a Catholic school
Yes, I did attend one of those school districts. Half redneck, half serious redneck.
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Inside under the desks or in the coat room for the air raid drill and then there was a fire alarm under the presumption that after an attack the building would be burning so we had a fire drill.
So? It’s still cool.
I was asking if it was
I remember crouching under the desks. By the same token, since we were living within 10 miles of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, we joked about that being the way to get ready to kiss our a$$es goodbye.
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