Items Tagged with 'tornadoes'

Nearly a year after a devastating tornado struck St. Louis, a group of area electrical industry firms and skilled trades unions—dubbed ReConnect STL—has been honored for the team’s efforts to get the power turned back on in the city.

Communities face daunting recovery in 170-mile wake of storm that left more than 1,000 severely damaged and flattened homes, with multiple utilities, roads and public buildings also affected. 

Six people were killed when a tornado hit the Edwardsville, Ill., Amazon fulfillment center in December 2021.

Agency recommends improved severe weather safety procedures after the partial collapse in Illinois that killed six workers but raises no issues over design or construction.

A proposal to incorporate the first U.S. guidance on tornado-resistant design into the model 2024 International Building Code passed the International Code Council’s structural committee by a vote of 14-0.

Marc L. Levitan recalls being at first enthralled by the sound and light show of the thunderstorms and then traumatized by the flooding in his neighborhood in Bucks County, Pa., during 1972’s Hurricane Agnes. He was 10.   

Rescue operations end and recovery begins after twisters, uncommon for this month, swept through the Ohio River Valley, collapsing an Illinois Amazon distribution facility and a Kentucky candle factory.