Editing Enterprise, Alabama (section)

===March 2007 tornado===
{{See also|Tornado outbreak of February 28 – March 2, 2007}}
[[File:Enterprise-high-school.jpg|thumb|left|Newly constructed [[Enterprise High School (Alabama)|Enterprise High School]] after the tornado]]
In the early afternoon of March 1, 2007, Enterprise was struck by a violent [[Enhanced Fujita Scale|EF4]] tornado.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tae/?n=event-20070301|title=Tornado Outbreak of March 1–2, 2007|publisher=National Weather Service|access-date=December 7, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201071158/http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tae/?n=event-20070301|archive-date=December 1, 2011}}</ref> The tornado caused nine deaths and injured over 121 others. Damage in Enterprise was estimated at nearly $307 million, the worst disaster in the city's history.

The most severe damage occurred at [[Enterprise High School (Alabama)|Enterprise High School]], where eight students died after a hallway was destroyed and the wall collapsed on them. The students were Michael Bowen (16), Andrew (AJ) Jackson (16), Ryan Mohler (16), Peter Dunn lll (16), Michael (Mikey) Tompkins (17), Jamie Vidensek (17), Michelle Wilson (16) and Kathryn Strunk (16). Enterprise resident Edna Strickland was killed in her home near the high school, the ninth fatality from the tornado. A quarter mile-wide swath through the downtown area was devastated, with at least 370 houses damaged or destroyed. The [[United States National Guard|National Guard]] was called into the city; a dusk-to-dawn curfew was implemented immediately after the disaster. [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] arrived the morning of March 3 and immediately declared Coffee County a disaster area. An [[AmeriCorps]] team was sent to the city to help organize and participate in disaster relief.

After the tornado, Enterprise High School students attended classes at the local community college, where trailers were used as temporary additional classrooms. The high school was rebuilt on a new site on the west end of Boll Weevil Circle and opened on August 23, 2010, at a cost of over $80 million. The new high school has structurally reinforced safe rooms and areas to shelter during severe weather and is rated to withstand winds from an EF5 tornado.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.eprisenow.com/news/2010/aug/22/we-are-enterprise-ar-730114/|title=Enterprise Ledger|first=Dothan|last=Eagle|website=Dothan Eagle|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831080508/http://www2.eprisenow.com/news/2010/aug/22/we-are-enterprise-ar-730114/|archive-date=August 31, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.eprisenow.com/news/2010/aug/22/new-ehs-streets-named-ar-730111/|title=Enterprise Ledger|first=Dothan|last=Eagle|website=Dothan Eagle|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825141704/http://www2.eprisenow.com/news/2010/aug/22/new-ehs-streets-named-ar-730111/|archive-date=August 25, 2010}}</ref>