By BILL JONES

Staff Writer

Greene County School System maintenance employees this morning were busy removing tree branches and a large oak tree from the playground and two fences at Baileyton Elementary School.

David Myers, the county school system's director of facilities and operations, said the one tree and six to eight large tree branches were felled by a Tuesday night storm that packed high winds and dropped about three inches of rain on the Baileyton area.

At about 9 a.m., Myers said the fallen tree and tree branches damaged playground equipment and two fences at the school's eastern property boundary.

It was too early to know this morning, he said, the full extent of the damage to the playground equipment, which was still covered by fallen tree branches.

North Greene Flooding

Myers also said that North Greene High School sustained some minor damage as a result of the torrential rainfall on Tuesday evening.

He noted that a classroom area on the school's lower level had sustained some flooding after runoff from the three inches of rain ran beneath a school door.

Myers descibed the damage as "minor" and said the school had been cleaned up on Wednesday.