Survivor Story: Kay Engle

 
By Jesse Olivarez | Published: May 1, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment


MOORE — Kay Engle, principal of Kelley Elementary, may very well owe her life to a last minute change of plan.

When school let out on May 3, 1999, Engle decided to stay late and start work on a state report that would soon be due. But after working a short while the gusto left her.

“Something in my head said, ‘No you better go on home,” she said. “So I got up...and started out the door and turned around and looked back at my desk and I thought, ‘Hmmm, it'll be there tomorrow.'”

About an hour later, the tornado tore through Moore and blew away most of the school and the surrounding neighborhood.

Over the next few days, she learned that all of her students and staff had survived the storm but the school was a complete loss.

Classes resumed seven days later at other locations in the district. It would take a full year but the school was reconstructed on the same spot.

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