1. Why are parents of students at the two Moore, OK elementary schools destroyed by Monday's tornadoes calling their teachers heroes?

2. a) What time did the tornado touch down?
b) How could a different time have made it worse?

3. List at least 2 adjectives you would use to describe the teachers' demeanor during the tornado. Explain your choices.

4. The tornado that struck Moore, OK on Monday was classified by the National Weather Service as an EF-5 (the most severe a tornado can be). Wind speeds were estimated at between 200 and 210 mph. The tornado at some points was 1.3 miles wide, and its path went on for 17 miles and 40 minutes.
Plaza Towers and Briarwood Elementary schools were demolished.
Educationbug.org states that Plaza Towers Elementary has 484 students, and Briarwood Elementary has 642 students. The population of Moore, OK is over 50,000.
To what do you attribute the fact that the number of fatalities was not as high as expected?

5.  Many of the people who lost everything: their homes, cars, clothes, possessions -- but survived the tornado -- had similar reactions.  When interviewed, read what several had to say:

• "The last thing we lose in a situation like this is faith. We have to hold onto faith and trust God every moment."
• "You salvage what you can salvage. You thank God that he has another plan for you."
• "I'm a believer in Jesus, and by the grace of God, me and my children are alive, and our house is -- we can repair it."
• "We prayed that God would save our house. We also prayed that if God didn't, he would get us through, and he will."
• "My security isn't in the things I own. My security is in the Lord."
• "By the grace of God, it's just amazing."
• "We know that God is good, and we know that there's people out there who are still alive, and we're gonna find 'em."

Would you have had a similar response in their place?  Explain your answer.