In the middle of a practice session of the Dallas Cowboys football team, a thunderstorm hit their area that made their tent-like facility collapse. No casualties were reported but some of the people there sustained serious injuries.
Rich Behm, scouting assistant of the Dallas Cowboys was reported to be stable now at the Parkland Hospital after his surgery to his thoracic spine. However, Behm sustained a permanent damage and his body parts down from the waist are now completely paralyzed. He was one of the people who were hurt by the said accident. Other victims include Joe DeCamillis who sustained a fracture to his cervical vertebrae and Greg Gaither who got his right leg fractured. All of the victims were said to be fine except for Behm and DeCamillis whose injuries were severe.
The 64 mph storm hit the area in the middle of the practice without warning. The storm was only about a mph away for a possible weak tornado. The place that could have protected them was the one who have made them to have injuries. National Weather Service stated that “microburst†might have been the cause for the wind gust to increase up to 70 mph at the top of the facility that was built in 2003 and made the entire building collapse.
Other Dallas Cowboys team members have given their sympathies to the families of those who were seriously injured especially for that of Behm’s and DeCamillis’. Giving my own point of view for this particular event, the accident might have been avoided if early warning was given to the people in the facility. It was not that the facility was weak, but because of the unpredicted turn of events, the accident occurred showing us that nature will turn against us without any warnings at all.
