Tornadoes Expose Lack of Alert System ; Bush Plan to Overhaul yet to Be Implemented
The Washington Times › February 26, 2008
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Neal Glover died just 100 yards shy of the safety of his home, thrashed to death inside his pickup truck by a monster tornado that descended from the storm-blackened skies as he returned from a routine trip to buy groceries.
The 70-year-old retired farmhand heard no civil-defense sirens that day in his rural Tennessee county nor did he receive any benefit from the high-tech disaster warning system that U.S. Homeland Security officials have been discussing for years without yet implementing.See the full content of this document
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Tornadoes Expose Lack of Alert System ; Bush Plan to Overhaul yet to Be Implemented
"We have one siren in the county seat, but it was inoperable," Fayette County Sheriff Bobby Riles told The Washington Times.
The fury earlier this month that ended Mr. Glover's life as well as those of 56 others went unnoticed by many Americans preoccupied with the Super Tuesday elections. But the implications of the 57 tornadoes - many with super-strength winds exceeding 200 mph - that struck th...See the full content of this document
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