Tuscaloosa Grapples With Reconstruction From April Twister's Wreckage
A University of Alabama engineering professor who is studying storm-wind damage recommends building reinforced- concrete safe rooms for wood-frame structures.
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Part of the bridge repair challenge is accessibility, constructing roads while clearing tornado damage and demolition of the damaged towers, a company official said.
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Scott Bridge Co. of Opelika, Ala., is rebuilding the bridge, which is 120 ft above the streambed.
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The EF-4 tornado tore a six-mile-long, 1.5-mile-wide path through Tuscaloosa, destroying more than 3,000 homes and damaging another 8,800.
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This schoolroom shows the damage of tornadic wind. Tuscaloosa County Schools officials are seeking funds to build multi-use shelters in nine schools.
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The Tuscaloosa Emergency Management Agency building was one of those destroyed by the tornado.
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The B.F. Goodrich plant in Tuscaloosa appears to be in the line of the approaching tornado that tore through the city on April 27, 2011. The plant was not harmed, but more than 400 businesses were destroyed and more than 1,000 damaged.
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The DCH Regional Medical Center, above the path, and the University Mall, below, remained intact. The Black Warrior River is at the top of the photo.
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The tornado took out the Hurricane Creek Train Bridge near Holt, Ala., in Tuscaloosa County.
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Precast-bridge building
200 traffic signals
1,300 road signs
2 miles of fiber optic
1,250 linear ft of curb and gutter
40 storm inlet
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