Current and proposed projects will provide a safe place during
severe weather for more than 40,000 students, staff and community
members in Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas.
Emily Younker, The Joplin Globe | January 26, 2015
......... many local school districts have spent the past three and a half years
working to add safe rooms to their schools. Officials say it's largely a
result of the destruction of the May 2011 tornado, which killed 161
people in Joplin and Duquesne and destroyed thousands of homes and
businesses, dozens of churches and nearly a dozen school buildings,
including Joplin High School. Even districts that were already planning
to build safe rooms at the time the tornado hit said the storm served as
a catalyst for putting their plans into motion to try to prevent
another devastating catastrophe.
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I'm glad to see that something good is coming out of this disaster. We should never have built schools in tornado areas without safe rooms. The cost is manageable if the safe areas are built into the design. Having hundreds of 8 graders hiding under cafeteria tables is just not what we should be doing in 2015.
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