Better Late then Never

Matt Boster

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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Jan 24 2012 2:09 PM

Below is what was released by the tornado commission after this weeks deadly tornado out break here in Alabama, but first I believe it's time for our state officials to start understanding that the Tornado Alley isn't just in the plain states anymore. When I was growing up in Fredrick Oklahoma, every new home, mobile home, and even the nursing homes all had underground storm shelters. Tornado sirens were mounted on every other block so people could hear them inside or outside their homes day or night. The sirens were not like the ones we have here, these were windup air raid sirens and they would wake you up out of a sound sleep when they went off.

To me Alabama is putting forth just enough effort to say they are doing something to save lives, But are they really? We have NO Storm Shelters, we have so called weather sirens that can only be heard if you are wake and out side, if you are lucky enough to even have one nearby.

If Alabama wants to really put fourth an effort then why don't they modal themselves after the people of Oklahoma, and Texas. These folks are used to it and know what needs to be done.

CENTER POINT, Alabama -- Weather disasters in the state might be less deadly if storm shelters were required in new mobile home parks and apartment complexes, if tougher building codes were established for homes, and if Alabamians were offered a sales tax holiday on emergency supplies.

These were among 20 recommendations the Tornado Recovery Action Council made to Gov. Robert Bentley after studying the state's deadly twister outbreak last April. The group's report was presented to Bentley this morning in Center Point, where he'd come to tour new storm damage that occurred on Monday.

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