Does anyone understand why those schools didn't have a shelter? It seems obvious that they should have one given location, but am I missing something?
I guess it's along similar lines, but when I heard about the schools, my thought was they spent so much money building an arena before a team was even there and gave Bennett a sweetheart deal with big time public financing...but they don't have shelters in the schools? I haven't lived there and maybe there are reasons for it that are outside my grasp, but it seems nuts. Obviously, no one can plan for all possible disasters, but this one seems pretty predictable. Or am I just missing something?
Exactly. We're lucky to be able to afford such a luxury. I tried to tell my wife instead of a shelter, I should spend my money like D-Miles...
It was an older school. The new schools (from the 1980s on) evidently have tornado shelters. One suggestion I heard which I think makes enormous sense is to treat days with high risks of tornadoes like snow days.
Still seems like they could build a shelter without needing to do major renovations to the whole school. In the northwest, we're due for a pretty big earthquake in the next hundred years. I know that schools and buildings are not designed to handle the worst quake, which is scary. The problem is that the retrofitting buildings to withstand a 9.0 earthquate is difficult and crazy expensive. Having a tornado shelter at each school doesn't seem like it would be that difficult or expensive, but I'm admittedly pretty ignorant about what it would involve.
I think after this incident, you'll see exactly such legislation proposed for schools in Tornado Alley.
