Teacher impaled in leg protecting students during a tornado.
A heroic teacher who shielded her students from a monster tornado is recovering in the hospital after the metal leg of a desk speared her in the calf. S. H. says she's grateful to be alive, and that the incredible injury she sustained isn't life-threatening. "It didn't hit the bone. It just went through the muscle." S.H. said she and another teacher immediately rushed the children under desks and into the corner of the classroom as the twister bore down. "We could hear it approaching. It sounded like a jet ... coming closer and closer." As the storm intensified, she and the students began praying. The roof blew off and a wall crashed down on their bodies. At some point, the leg of a desk impaled her right calf. In about 10 minutes after the storm passed, rescue workers arrived to pull everyone from the rubble. Fortunately everyone survived. Credit: New York Daily News
