zinc02gt
03-03-2010, 01:41 AM
This is the first time I believe I've mentioned this on this forum. It's pretty emotional for me and I think you'll see why after reading.
Well, I've been a little busy in the past couple of days. I've been traveling back and forth between cities for odd end stuff and this slipped my mind (on here).
For those of you who don't know, I do this every year as a remembrance thing because, well, it was the single most life changing event in my life. I gave Courtney and Brent a call the other day to just catch up on things. Courtney started to cry over the phone a little...
Just grateful man. Just leaves me speechless everytime I think about it.
This is a quote from threads on a different forum.
yeah... I was in the hgihschool... i was dead in the center of it. the ceiling collapsed on top of me and my friends. the 8 people that died were iwthin 5-20 feet from me under the same ceiling. I broke my collar really bad (you still cant see it), broken ribs,and gashes all over my left side. it came from my left side. I( managed to pull myself out and was the first one out of the cieling.
I pulled my friend, Brent, up and the girl that we put in between us. I told her to go to the hospital and get help. Me and brent went across the rubble and helped lift people out. I had to stop after 2 people becuse I couldnt breathe anymore and my sholder felt like it was about to fall off. I didnt know what I looked like at the time and when I saw a girl that I was and still am really close with she completely flipped and I didnt realize why until later.
I got outside of the school after a few minutes and managed to find my step mom and brother. Brother went back to help and my step mom forced me to go to the hospital because I was cussing at the top of my lungs in pain...
Some guy, who I still dont know to this day, took me in his Dodge Ram to the hospital. He had 2 daughters in there too. I Looked in his vanity mirror and realized why so many people freaked out when they saw me... I had a flap of skin hanging from my head where the bone was exposed and my face was covered in blood and still gushing it.
they ran me into the ER and put me on morphine (great stuff by the way) and just stitched me up, did some X rays, and cleaned up my body. I had to have a few stitches in my left arm from a few pretty deep cuts that are now scars running down my arm...
that freight train sound is bullshit. you wanna know what it really sounds like? Imagine the loudest possible roar imaginable. its like hearing a jet take off beside you
thats why im terrified of bad weather
one year ago my life, along with MANY other peoples lives, was changed forever. A day that will live in infamy in this town. One day that Id like to forget, but will forever be haunted anbd tormented by. Sometimes asking myself what else was there that I cold have done, I dont know how to cope sometimes...
One year ago my high school was struck by a EF4 tornado. 1300 teenagers including myself were inside. The tornado killed 8 or my friends one of which was a lifelong friend. All within 15 feet of me. One was 5 feet across the hall. All of us under the same ceiling...
I dont know why I was chosen to still live sometimes. I dont know why I wasnt taken with my friends.
I just... Its hard to imagine... Its already been a year, but it feels like it was 2 months ago...
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4400/tornadoli2.jpg
Sorry guys if you feel liek im wasting your time, this is just a way for me to kind of cope with it...
Here's where I was. I was under the ceiling here in the bottom right corner. Also, that's after it had been cut in half for the firefighters to pull people out. The classroom with that green showing (its the US) was the classroom I was in. We were in the hallways when it hit though.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj222/zinc02gt/3rd.jpg
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/08/large_EnterpriseTornado.JPG
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/11/large_tornado.jpg
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles28792.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/03/us/03tornado.xlarge1.jpg
http://jameslogancourier.org/media/1/20070315-Ent_School.jpg
Well, I've been a little busy in the past couple of days. I've been traveling back and forth between cities for odd end stuff and this slipped my mind (on here).
For those of you who don't know, I do this every year as a remembrance thing because, well, it was the single most life changing event in my life. I gave Courtney and Brent a call the other day to just catch up on things. Courtney started to cry over the phone a little...
Just grateful man. Just leaves me speechless everytime I think about it.
This is a quote from threads on a different forum.
yeah... I was in the hgihschool... i was dead in the center of it. the ceiling collapsed on top of me and my friends. the 8 people that died were iwthin 5-20 feet from me under the same ceiling. I broke my collar really bad (you still cant see it), broken ribs,and gashes all over my left side. it came from my left side. I( managed to pull myself out and was the first one out of the cieling.
I pulled my friend, Brent, up and the girl that we put in between us. I told her to go to the hospital and get help. Me and brent went across the rubble and helped lift people out. I had to stop after 2 people becuse I couldnt breathe anymore and my sholder felt like it was about to fall off. I didnt know what I looked like at the time and when I saw a girl that I was and still am really close with she completely flipped and I didnt realize why until later.
I got outside of the school after a few minutes and managed to find my step mom and brother. Brother went back to help and my step mom forced me to go to the hospital because I was cussing at the top of my lungs in pain...
Some guy, who I still dont know to this day, took me in his Dodge Ram to the hospital. He had 2 daughters in there too. I Looked in his vanity mirror and realized why so many people freaked out when they saw me... I had a flap of skin hanging from my head where the bone was exposed and my face was covered in blood and still gushing it.
they ran me into the ER and put me on morphine (great stuff by the way) and just stitched me up, did some X rays, and cleaned up my body. I had to have a few stitches in my left arm from a few pretty deep cuts that are now scars running down my arm...
that freight train sound is bullshit. you wanna know what it really sounds like? Imagine the loudest possible roar imaginable. its like hearing a jet take off beside you
thats why im terrified of bad weather
one year ago my life, along with MANY other peoples lives, was changed forever. A day that will live in infamy in this town. One day that Id like to forget, but will forever be haunted anbd tormented by. Sometimes asking myself what else was there that I cold have done, I dont know how to cope sometimes...
One year ago my high school was struck by a EF4 tornado. 1300 teenagers including myself were inside. The tornado killed 8 or my friends one of which was a lifelong friend. All within 15 feet of me. One was 5 feet across the hall. All of us under the same ceiling...
I dont know why I was chosen to still live sometimes. I dont know why I wasnt taken with my friends.
I just... Its hard to imagine... Its already been a year, but it feels like it was 2 months ago...
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4400/tornadoli2.jpg
Sorry guys if you feel liek im wasting your time, this is just a way for me to kind of cope with it...
Here's where I was. I was under the ceiling here in the bottom right corner. Also, that's after it had been cut in half for the firefighters to pull people out. The classroom with that green showing (its the US) was the classroom I was in. We were in the hallways when it hit though.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj222/zinc02gt/3rd.jpg
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/08/large_EnterpriseTornado.JPG
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/11/large_tornado.jpg
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles28792.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/03/us/03tornado.xlarge1.jpg
http://jameslogancourier.org/media/1/20070315-Ent_School.jpg