Tornadoes , Storms kill one in Ala., 13 children injured in Fla.

[Pooka Fey]

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stormcenter/2006-01-13-fla-tornado_x.htm?csp=24

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BAKER, Fla. (AP) — A tornado tore a section of roof from a school, causing minor injuries to 13 children as a series of storms moved through the Florida Panhandle on Friday.

The National Weather Service in Mobile, Ala., said the storms damaged a post office and several mobile homes in Baker, about 50 miles northeast of Pensacola. Homes also were damaged in the Milton area. Trees were reported down in other sections of Okaloosa County.

"There was quite a bit of damage," said meteorologist Gary Beeler.

Beeler said golfball-size hail fell at Perdido Key beach on the Alabama–Florida state line. (Related: Today's thunderstorm forecast map.)

Ken Wolf, emergency management director for Okaloosa County, said the only injuries occurred at the Baker School, which houses 1,363 kindergarten through 12th-grade students. The children had minor cuts and bruises and were treated at the scene, he said.
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Updated 5 minutes later:
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Tornadoes, storms kill 1 in Ala., hurt 13 Fla. children
BAKER, Fla. (AP) — Severe storms and tornadoes swept across two states Friday, killing a man in Alabama, damaging dozens of homes, and tearing a section of roof off a Florida school where 13 children were injured, authorities said.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stormcenter/2006-01-13-fla-tornado_x.htm?csp=24
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Move along. Nothing to see here.

[cdb]

1. I blame JEB!!

Glad nobody was seriously hurt.

[Pooka Fey]

2. 1 man killed in Ala. see updated post. :-(

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Oh geez

that is one of my biggest fears, the roof blowing off with my class inside during a tornado. We just had a drill in our building on Thursday and for some reason it always chokes me up to see them lined up against the wall, their little bottoms in the air, covering their heads. I have it all planned out that if it really happens I'll move tables over them.

We get a lot of these things in the winter because we have warm fronts and then a cold front will come in. They don't like each other. The rest of the country has them more in the spring, but it is always "spring" here in the wintertime.