[NPR] Many Tornado Alley Residents With Disabilities Lack Safe Options In A Storm

[Dan Robinson]

Many Tornado Alley Residents With Disabilities Lack Safe Options In A Storm

Oklahoma used to have more public shelters that could accommodate wheelchairs. But many have closed, and there's still no financial aid for renters with disabilities to build safe alternatives.

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Despite experiencing some of the most severe weather-related events in the nation, Oklahoma has no state laws requiring storm shelters in homes, apartments or businesses. Instead, storm shelters are marketed as a desirable, extra amenity in some new housing developments.

 

[Jeff Wright]

That is what happened in the single most deadly event in the forgotten Oak Grove F-5 that hit Metro Birmingham back in 1998

April 8, 1998 Tornado

1998 Oak Grove tornado - Bhamwiki

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Oak Grove, AL F5 Tornado – April 8, 1998 – Tornado Talk

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Warning response and risk behavior in the Oak Grove - Birmingham, Alabama, tornado of 08 April 1998. (Book, 1999) [WorldCat.org]

Get this from a library! Warning response and risk behavior in the Oak Grove - Birmingham, Alabama, tornado of 08 April 1998.. [Matthew D Biddle; David R Legates]

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I seem to remember that family members were trying to move a person in a wheelchair downstairs when the tornado struck.

Jarrell in 97' and Moore in 99' were better remembered.