Who else remembers the summer of '99 being absolutely chaotic in

Who else remembers the summer of '99 being absolutely chaotic in Kingwood/ Humble ISD? I was actually falling down a rabbit hole looking up the "Queens of Armed Robbery" story (another local classic 😆) and ended up back at the Elm Grove Elementary fire. It's wild to think that between 1997 and 2001, it felt like some of the local kids were on a total tear. An arsonist set fire to Elm Grove Elementary in the early morning hours of Monday, June 7, 1999. Firefighters were on the scene in minutes. Sixty-six firefighters fought the blaze for two hours. The fire destroyed classrooms used by fifth-grade language arts/social studies teachers, two second-grade classrooms and five third-grade classrooms. Smoke and water damage was sustained in other parts of the building. To rebuild the structure, nine classrooms had to be completely demolished, and most of the rest of the structure had to be gutted. The damage exceeded $3.5 million. Two other Humble ISD schools had incidents of arson during that same month. A fire set at Riverwood Middle School was quickly contained, but still suffered in excess of $40,000 worth of damage. At Deerwood Elementary the playground equipment was set on fire.

the summer of '99