Yes, I read it was broken pipes. I can’t imagine there was a basement. Modern schools don’t have basements. Perhaps it was a maintenance room.
“I can’t imagine there was a basement. Modern schools don’t have basements.”
Midwest schools in storm areas have basements. I lives in Dayton for awhile and the school had a basement specifically for tornadoes. No water mains, heavy ceiling, etc.
OMG — How horrible. e used to be ushered down into the basement for bombing drills during WWII. This was an old, brick school (now illegal in CA because of earthquake hazards). I can’t imagine that that rickety old school would have protected us much, especially since the walls were lined with tall bookshelves that stored all of the out of season books.
The children sat on the floor in front of the dusty old bookshelves with our arms around our knees and heads down. I can just imagine all the books tumbling down at the first shock wave, and then the shelves toppling over on the kids.