Tornadoes Rake Wichita Area, Causing Extensive Damage

Tornadoes swept through the south of Wichita on Saturday, causing considerable damage, but apparently no serious injuries.

Spirit AeroSystems and Boeing took a direct hit, officials said, as well as Oaklawn Park District and the mobile home.

Preliminary reports indicated that 100 trailers in a mobile home park were damaged when the storm struck shortly before 10:30 pm in Oaklawn, two houses were destroyed and several others were damaged. Two residents were taken to a hospital emergency room in the region, while many others were wounded, but did not go to the hospital.

In general, hospitals reported that they saw about a dozen patients in the storm in the metropolitan area, which also left thousands of customers without power.

Spirit AeroSystems nearby, six buildings were severely damaged and four others suffered serious damage.

A preliminary assessment by officials of the City and County estimated the total losses in the Wichita area to be like $ 283 million.

At 0:25, Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Tim Norton said the state of disaster, which will initiate the emergency plan and report to government officials that support and further assistance may be required. Governor Sam Brownback declared an emergency disaster.

Mobile home park Pinaire near 52nd Street South and Clifton was badly damaged, and in the middle of the complex fire, which was obviously caused by the rupture of gas burned.

Christine Dean, who lives in the park, said she was one of 75 to 100 people who took refuge in shelters in the park.

"All summer, and everyone was shouting," she said. "We all crowded."

She said the noise of the storm lasted from 15 to 20 seconds. When it was over, she said, some of the trailers were on fire and the other was not.

Power lines down, she said, and car windows were smashed. The smell of gas filled the air.

She said the park was "almost gone. This is devastating, but you know we are alive."

Cars have difficulty obtaining the park because of damage to trees and power lines in the region. Many respondents extraordinary profit on its feet.

Sedgwick County spokeswoman Kristi Zukovich said officials are still trying to assess the damage until midnight. She said officials are asking people to stay in the area bounded by the thirty-ninth and 63 Street to the south, and Hydraulic and K-15, so that rescuers can enter

Shortly after the storm - which swept through Oklahoma and Sumner County - residents of the park shouting the names of family members who are missing. Other people began to ask people to shut up so they could hear the voices of people who may be trapped under the rubble.

Many residents gathered at the entrance to the park.

Kristin Moyer, who lives in the park, said that it covers far from the park, as well as what she described as "a skinny tornado" hit.

Among those who gathered at 47th and Clifton after the storm was Pam Thurman Belle Plaine. She and other nurses, Tony Bowman, Wellington, led to a field hearing of the damage.

"We are nurses," said Thurman. "This is what you should do."

Mary Silver, who lives in Oaklawn, said she left the fire storm in the derby with 150 other people and lots of pets.

The Red Cross has sent four teams of disaster assessment and has opened a shelter in a recreation center derby at 3 pm on Sunday.

A spokesman for Boeing Forrest Gossett said that the company "took a direct hit." A skeleton crew was on duty, he said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The Company will not be able to assess the damage until the morning, he said, but it was huge.

Spirit AeroSystems, a part of the production side of the installation process has disappeared. The plant was without power and said six buildings were severely damaged and four were seriously damaged.

"It's important," said spokeswoman Debbie Gann's Spirit AeroSystems.

There were no immediate reports of damage. MacArthur debris lined the roads of the plant.

Spirit of the representative Jarrod Bartlett said later that the company should suspend its operations due to damage. The spirit of working regularly on a Sunday, should not go to work if they are directly contacted, he said.

"Our first priority is the safety and well-being of our employees," said Bartlett. "We can not fully assess the damage today."

To the northeast, Hawker Beechcraft reported damage to the roof, with pieces of land on Webb Road.

USD 259 officials also reported damage to the roof of a new elementary school Colvin.

In assessing the storm at 2 am, Wichita Fire Eagle Brad Crisp said that the damage was significant in the south of Wichita, south-east of Wichita and Sedgwick County south.

He said emergency crews are still dealing with gas leaks and hazardous materials in the Spirit.

The darkness and the storm continued, stretching out past 4 am, was to prevent damage assessment, Crisp said.

Fire Marshal has confirmed that people should stay away from damaged areas during the day Sunday to make way for emergency crews.

While Crisp said he had not heard reports of people that can be captured as a result of the storm was at least one report of a person reported missing on Sunday morning.

The storm, which struck a mobile home park is part of a powerful system that passed through Kansas, churning out dozens of tornadoes reported but not causing death or serious damage elsewhere in the state early in the morning.

The system spawned at least six tornadoes in rural western Kansas on Saturday afternoon, including the north of Dodge City, which has been on earth for about half an hour.

As a storm swept the state, large tornado went around the city of Salina, on Saturday night as another tornado 90 miles of the city threatens to Reno County Pretty Prairie.

In Butler County, emergency officials feel that they have avoided major disasters.

El Dorado County residents Butler said officials in the management of emergency situations, that a few large trees, some as much as one meter in diameter, fell to the south and west of the County Courthouse.

Storm damage in the small downtown Wichita, but caused flooding Main Street.

Heroes Sports Bar patrons not to evacuate when the tornado sirens sounded, even if the plan was in place were more severe weather conditions in their way. Early warning is kept most people from the city center on Saturday, with scattered crowds who inhabit the area after the Miranda Lambert concert and storms.

"We have a basement, which we could all those people when things got worse," manager Eric Heroes Davisson said. "The most we saw was a flood, and when the rain stopped, we checked for any damage to the front and rear and there was nothing there."

Kansas Division of Emergency Management has activated its Emergency Operations Center in Topeka to track storms and be prepared to provide the necessary assistance. But as dusk settled on the state, it appears that little help was needed.

Responsible for emergency management said initial reports indicate that the structural damage was limited to farm buildings and houses in Rush County.

Minor wind damage reported in Russell County, where the K-18 was closed near Luray and because the power lines on the road to Lucas. Minor flooding reported in areas with low levels throughout the state.

Concerns about early storms prompted McConnell Air Force Base air refueling tankers to move from 16 to Air Force Base Grand Forks Air North Dakota, spokeswoman Jessica Brown said that the database lieutenant.

Damage from the storm reported in McConnell and the Kansas Aviation Museum, including a B-47 display.

It was only the second time the storm forecast center issued a warning of high risk for more than 24 hours. The first was in April 2006 when a tornado tore off about 100 south-eastern United States and killed dozens of people and damaging more than 1,000 homes in Tennessee.

The storm system on Saturday has been widely distributed throughout the Midwest, but it did not give such damages. Baseball size hail reported in the north-eastern part of Nebraska, and there was a tornado warning just before dawn in Oklahoma City, where three possible tornadoes were reported in the west and north of the city.

The threat of severe weather were to go to the south-central Kansas on Sunday. Weather forecasters predict will be windy with a high of almost 70 years.

Bobby Petrino at Arkansas Fired After Four Seasons

Bobby Petrino said time and time again to win the national championship in Arkansas. From the day he was hired in 2007, Petrino never wavered in purpose or belief.

Petrino will have a chance now, shot by a scandal, and he blamed no one but himself to escape.

"The simplest answer I have: I'm sorry," he said. "These two words seem very inadequate. But this is my heart."

Athletic Director Jeff Long shed Petrino Tuesday and presented a long list of great harm to the man whom he hired from the Atlanta Falcons four years ago.

He tore the Petrino hire him and his mistress for deliberately misled about the secret relationship that had been exposed as a result of his journey in April, along with the bike, which ended in disaster. Petrino said he missed several chances in the last 10 days to tell the truth about the case, who crossed the line into infidelity of favoritism in the workplace.

"He decided to deliberately mislead the public on Tuesday, and thus adversely affects the reputation of the University of Arkansas and our football program," Long said, choking as he spoke the players say their manager was not there. "In short, Coach Petrino is engaged in pattern of deception and manipulation, designed to deceive me and athletics staff before and after a motorcycle accident."

Petrino, 51, a married father of four children, maintained relations with inappropriate Jessica Dorrell 25 years of "significant" amount of time and at some point in his $ 20,000, Long said.

Long would not disclose details of the payment, or when the money changed hands, but said that both sides have confirmed a "gift." Kevin Trainor, press Long, said the money came from Petrino, not university funds.

Petrino apologized at length and said he was inclined to try to make amends to his family.

"All I could think of is the number of people that I gave up the decision-making, self-centered," he said. "I have decided to participate in an abusive relationship. J" I also made some bad decisions after the end of this relationship, and as a result of the accident. I accept full responsibility for what happened. "

Dorrell, a former volleyball player Razorbacks, Razorbacks worked in the Fund before she was hired Petrino March 28, four days before the accident on a rural road 20 miles outside of Fayetteville. Long said that she was one of three finalists out of 159 candidates, and got the job after only a short time.

Petrino never disclosed his conflict of interest in hiring or pay Dorrell and clearly was an unfair advantage over other candidates, Long said.

"Coach Petrino has abused his authority when, in recent weeks, he decided on a personal and individual choices that benefit themselves and jeopardize the integrity of the football program," said Long.

Petrino Arkansas built a national power in the four seasons, including a record 21.5 in the last two years, and he was in the midst of a seven-year contract under which the average salary of 3.53 million dollars per year. The article has long been granted the right to suspend or dismiss a coach of conduct "or adversely affect the reputation of sports programs (university) in any case."

Long Petrino was dismissed "with cause" - meaning that it has received a ransom of 18 million are detailed in the contract - and there were no discussions on ways to keep in Arkansas Petrino. Long Petrino met Tuesday morning to inform him that there are grounds for termination and that the coach was "concerned" about it. Long sent a letter Petrino today officially inform him that he was fired.

"I decided to do this in writing because it is the conditions of his contract," he said.

Long declined to comment when asked about the status of Dorrell. She was hired as coordinator of student athletes of Arkansas football, paid $ 55,735 a year to organize visits to the campus set for the team and help in the initial right of each player's input

She was "at some point," seeks to Josh Morgan, director of competitive swimming and diving, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details I have not been disclosed. Morgan said that the man is still working at the University of .

Petrino finished his tenure in Arkansas with a 34-17 record in four years, which led to the Razorbacks № 5 in last season's final ranking and the Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State. In the fourth Tyler Wilson, running back Knile Davis and others return, we're talking about Arkansas, because the two giants SEC West, Alabama, national champion and vice-LSU.

And maybe pigs will be. But they will not do with Petrino.

Beginning of the end came on April 1, Petrino, who first described as a Sunday spent with his wife in the lake region.

Instead, he went and Dorrell for evening walks and skidded off the road in an accident that left him with four broken ribs, cracked vertebrae in his neck and bruises on his face. Motorcycle enthusiasts say that the sun and the wind caused him to lose control.

The fact that he did not mention at the press conference after two days and long term for another two days, Dorrell is the presence, except for a vague reference to a "lady" who stopped the passage of the drivers. Everything changed when the state police released an accident report. Petrino, warned the State Trooper, which normally provides security for him during the season, have long been told 20 minutes before the report was released, and he admitted that he calls the inappropriate relationship with the previous Dorrell. Long put him on paid leave.

He can not do better for Petrino. Audio 911 call reporting the accident revealed that he and Dorrell did not want the police called in an accident, and police later revealed that he asked whether it was necessary to give the name of the passenger in the accident.

Petrino was named Dorrell and the presence of the investigators, but only after a long time to mislead both the public and during his press conference. The school even made a statement in the family Petrino on the day after the accident, who said "no" to other persons were involved.

Fraud and how Dorrell was hired for too long.

"Our expectations of quality and integrity of our employees can not be less than we expect from our students," Long said. "No one more than the team, Razorback football program at the University of Arkansas."

The constancy of the coach with the Razorbacks began under a cloud of second guessing after the abrupt departure from Atlanta's 13 games in a season in 2007.

Petrino left a farewell note in the lockers of players in Atlanta, but did not tell them of his resignation in the face. He was inducted into the end of the night, as the new coach Razorbacks, taking with him the image of wandering after the 15 jobs in 11 different programs and organizations in 24 seasons. He is infamous meeting with Auburn in 2003 to talk about adoption of the Tigers head coach Tommy Tuberville at the same time was not.

Nevertheless, he was met in Arkansas and took the school to its BCS bowl game after the first season in 2010, losing in the Sugar Bowl in Ohio. It has improved its win total each year. 5.7 Arkansas its first season in 2008, the second 5.8 until the end of 10-3 and 2.11 in the last two seasons.

In a statement, Petrino said he and his staff had left Arkansas in better shape, and wished him success.

"Because of my own mistakes, we will not get to finish our goal of building a championship program," he said. "My only goal at this point to try to repair the damage I have done for my family. They do not ask for this and deserve better. I'm going to be a better husband, father and man, as a result of this and are working every day to prove that for my family, my friends and others.

"I love football. I love to workout. I certainly hope I can find my way back to the profession I love. At the same time, I will do everything possible to heal the wounds that have" created ".

Assistant coach Taver Johnson will continue the program until spring practice, ending the game with a spring school on April 21. Long said he has asked other staff, including offensive coordinator Paul Petrino, brother of Petrino, to stay at least until then.

Petrino Ego of its Final Fall

My colleague Jason Whitlock would like to say Pussy Galore caught another victim Tuesday when Bobby Petrino was the head coach fired Arkansas football after trying to hide the relationship with the employee for 25 years.

I would like to add to this list, right there with Mrs. abundance, another key factor that is often delayed in the back big-time athletics and great people, in times of big money, because the time from them: unbridled pride.

Petrino on all accounts a great football coach. For four years in Arkansas, he led the Razorbacks to a peak of 34 to 17, including a 11.2 mark last season where they finished as the number 5 team in the country. Petrino and his program were quickly on the future is very pink.

Then, in the southeast of Fayetteville on April 1, a motorcycle carrying a coach, a young woman and her gigantic ego crashed.

It sure seems to be sure, Ms. Petrino abundance, husband and father of four children, mounted on a bicycle with Dorrell, a former volleyball player and current employees of Arkansas Arkansas Football. But it was pride that led to the subsequent cover-up when the bike fell and carefully constructed world of Petrino began to crumble.

This is a man who thought he could get away with a helluva lot. He Dorrell, he later admitted, was someone with whom he had inappropriate relationships.

But it is a sport where men cheat rampant. Cheating does not get it dismissed. Repeatedly lied to his manager - and bile and contempt need to do - do.

Petrino did not study history closely enough. It is always a cover-up that gets you, not treason or a crime. It is the ego of man, who said: "I am the above consequences," which unearths so much that you can not hide from them.

After the collapse of Trooper Petrino tried to call another state. He hid the fact that he was driving Dorrell is not only a wife, but his boss and his school, and that a lie is formed, it became a matter of time before he would not only fall around him, but will bring more things are best left in the dark. Petrino proved Dorrell also hired to work, without disclosing his relationship with her, and he gave $ 20,000 in cash. Oops.

The guy who lied to and was rewarded - the guy whose ego is said that he could get away with anything - he thought he could get away with it. It turns out that he could not. What a blow it was to behave that way, until then, and finally called him.

"He made a conscious decision to speak and to mislead the public on Tuesday," Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long said Tuesday night, saying that he was dismissed because Petrino. "At the same time, it affects the reputation of the University of Arkansas and our football program."

Long was at the press conference was a pause as he fought tears. He looked no wife despises - shocked by the betrayal, rage, he was forced to this decision and eventually end the relationship he had initiated.

"The life of people affected," said Long. "Coaches, players, staff. Student-athletes. This is something that we sometimes miss."

Someone asked a different question, and even sounded like a long-time partner betrayed.

"I wish to hire him?" He asked. "It's a complicated question. If he was not involved in inappropriate behavior, I do not regret hiring him."

I felt bad for long, and Arkansas fans, but the fact is that if you hire a self-centered with a history of bad behavior is that you'll probably get exactly the same way, if you marry a cheater you are likely to wake up one day and find their marriage in disarray.

Petrino just looked at another athletic director in the eye and in a straight line lying in the fact that he spoke with another school. Petrino was the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL happened to Arkansas after the end of the half of the season with a note. He was a man guided by his own sense of right and whims of their needs, rather than loyalty and sense of responsibility.

Pussy galore to put on this bike with Dorrell. The ego has made him think that he can get away with just a joy ride turned into a painful accident.

This is the bane of arrogance fueled vision of the world in the sport. In college football, college coaches often work in small towns known to add a feeling that they are the most important people in the world - guys like Jim Tressel, who considered himself above the rules of the State of Ohio.

The list of those sports in which the ego is often hampered by their God-given talent is long and varied: Ozzie Guillen, Sean Payton, Dwight Howard, Terrell Owens, and the list goes on. These people need the confidence to be great, but no one - including myself - do not benefit by protecting them from reality.

Arrogance is thriving in the sport, and he ran hard and the truth is that Petrino ultimately contributed to the displacement of jobs. Inappropriate relationship, lie, to hire him as he left his last previous work, and how he conducted himself with one of Arkansas - every step of arrogance was more than talent. It was worth it.

Petrino was not fired because he had inappropriate relations with a young woman. He was fired because he was not understanding how it is in fact from what is really important.