Urbana Elementary School Roof Torn Off During Storm

By Jillian Petrus, Reporter

Urbana Elementary School teachers and family members help clean up a damaged classroom at Urbana Elementary School Monday, July 11, 2011 in Urbana, Iowa. The roof was blown off of two of the school's classrooms and a water pipe was ruptured causing water damage to several more during an early morning storm. (Brian Ray/The Gazette)

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Story Created: Jul 12, 2011 at 12:13 PM CDT

Story Updated: Jul 12, 2011 at 12:13 PM CDT

URBANA, Iowa - Teachers are cleaning up after high winds ripped the roof off of their soon-to-be new elementary school.

Urbana’s Intermediate Elementary School on West Main Street is part of several new projects for the district. High winds tore the roof off of the new end of the building. The storm also caused a water main to break flooding some of the classrooms as well as a small gas leak.

Principal Jon Hasleiet has only had the new building for about ten days.

“We already have a lot going on this is kind of crunch time for us,” Hasleiet said, “We didn’t expect adding a new roof would be part of the plan.”

Hasleiet is staying optimistic the building will be cleaned up and ready to go for the start of the new school year.

“Every teacher that teaches here in this section of the building has been in here to help or survey the damage,” he said. “Things are going to get taken care of and we’re going to be ok.”

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