Kris
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Post by Kris on May 3, 2009 10:53:08 GMT -6
I just heard about a tornedo in Texas that damaged the roof of a sports hall in which the Dallas Cowboys were playing.
OMG! It was an open training reporters filmed it. The roof came down and buried more then 12 players. Seems no one is dead but a lot are injured.
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Post by mysterytrain on May 3, 2009 11:13:52 GMT -6
I just heard about a tornedo in Texas that damaged the roof of a sports hall in which the Dallas Cowboys were playing. OMG! It was an open training reporters filmed it. The roof came down and buried more then 12 players. Seems no one is dead but a lot are injured. The last I heard (last night on CNN) it was not a tornado, it was high winds of 60 mph during a pouring rainstorm. It collapsed the roof of the new practice facility that was made like a bubble. It was reinforced with aluminum beams and had some sort of canvas over it. The team was there practicing at the time and there were reporters there also to film and interview about the new facility. Anyway, there were 6 or 7 people injured and one of them is critical. The players are okay and all but one of the coaches is okay. There was an assistant coach that was removed on a backboard and hospitalized. I think the other people injured were staff of the Cowboys organization, but I am not sure. The last I heard everyone was accounted for but they were still looking through the debris just in case. I saw a video of the collapse from the inside last night on CNN. An affiliate of theirs in Dallas was there filming when the collapse happened. There were people running around immediately making sure the team and everyone was okay and evacuating people out of the rubble for fear of another collapse. (only part of the roof had collapsed at that point). They were attending to the injured right away. So, it is lucky more people were not injured. |
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Post by mysterytrain on May 3, 2009 12:12:38 GMT -6
Just saw CNN again and they said it was called a microburst. Apparently it's a sudden compression of air toward the ground that has the same affect as a tornado but does not have the spiraling affect and debris flying like a tornado. It is a high burst of wind when the cold air and the hot air aloft combine and then it pushes the cold air toward the ground in a sudden burst and that is what collapsed the roof. They also said that the coach broke his back and there were 11 others injured. They have been showing the video again that I saw last night from inside the collapse. So tune in to CNN if anyone wants to follow this further. That is where I am getting this information from for anyone that is interested.
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Kris
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Post by Kris on May 3, 2009 17:28:07 GMT -6
Well, thanks mys. Didn't have time to check CNN earlier, because I had to go to work!
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Post by fanofjonbonjovi on May 3, 2009 22:47:40 GMT -6
This was on CNN.com
(CNN) -- A Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant suffered a broken back and has been permanently paralyzed after the collapse of the team's practice canopy during a heavy thunderstorm, the Cowboys announced Sunday.
An aerial view of the scene shows the Dallas Cowboys logo amid the ruins of the indoor practice facility.
An aerial view of the scene shows the Dallas Cowboys logo amid the ruins of the indoor practice facility.
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Rich Behm, 33, was one of three Cowboys staffers seriously hurt when the storm struck their practice facility Saturday afternoon.
Behm's spinal cord was severed by a fractured vertebrae, paralyzing him from the waist down, the team said in a written statement.
"To the Behm family, we extend our love, comfort and the full support of every person and resource within the organization," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.
"Rich is a courageous member of our family and someone for whom we care deeply. We ask for all friends and fans of the Dallas Cowboys to join us in embracing him and his family with their thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time," Jones said.
A total of 12 people were hurt when a severe thunderstorm knocked down the air-supported, metal frame structure that covered the team's practice field. About 70 people, including more than two dozen of the team's rookies, were in the facility when it was blown down.
Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis had a fractured cervical vertebra, while assistant trainer Greg Gaither had two broken bones in his leg, the team said.
A line of heavy thunderstorms was moving through the Dallas area at the time, but no other damage to buildings was reported, said Mike Adams, a dispatcher for the Irving, Texas, Fire Department. Video Watch the roof collapse on players, coaches »
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Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA, was shooting the Cowboys' practice session Saturday when rain began falling "tremendously hard."
"I noticed the walls started to waver ... and then I noticed that the lights that were hanging from the ceiling started to sway, and it wouldn't stop," Payne told CNN. Shortly after that, he said, "It was as if someone took a stick pin and hit a balloon." Video Watch Payne describe being inside when structure collapsed »
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Payne said Cowboys staff photographers were up in the metal framework beneath the canopy to film the practice session and "actually rode the building down with the storm."
"There was nowhere for them to go, and it fell so fast -- it just collapsed as if it was being imploded," Payne said
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joviswoman
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Post by joviswoman on May 4, 2009 6:04:04 GMT -6
Holy crap, poor guy.
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