NIST report on Joplin, MO, tornado in May 2011 calls for major changes

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  disaster_preparedness_emergency_response A year-and-a-half after a tornado devastated Joplin, MO, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a 492-page report of its comprehensive investigation of the weather-related disaster, in which it presented no less than 47 separate “findings” and 16 separate “recommendations” for…

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Joplin Tornado Survivors Seek Katrina Lessons

A group volunteers traveled to New Orleans to help rebuild a city still struggling to find its way more than six years after Hurricane Katrina, and to learn disaster recovery lessons to take back to their own storm-ravaged Missouri community. (March 12) Subscribe to the Associated Press: bit.ly Download AP…

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