Charlotte+And+Ben's+Idea+for+Tornadoes+in+Greene+County

=9/1: We choose to work on tornadoes because they directly effect Ohio more than any other type of natural disaster; specificity Tornadoes that affected Greene County, Ohio ( Just an hour away from us).=

We liked the idea of making schools safer during tornadoes and learned that just 2 years ago, there was a tornado in Greene County, Ohio that destroyed a school, thankfully nobody was injured but it got is thinking.....

We researched tornadoes in Greene county and found that there has been 15 tornadoes in Greene County since 1956 including and F5 tornado in 1974 and an F4 tornado in 2000. The most recent tornado being on May 23rd 2011.

The problem: how to make schools safer for students and staff when tornadoes hit Greene county.

we picked Greene because it is close to us and it has a lot of tornadoes. =Links:= News Article About the Middle School that was destroyed

History of Tornadoes in Greene County, Ohio since 1950

[|Toledo school & residences rebuild and prepare\]

tornado proof schools in Oklahoma

[|Architect's design tornado proof buildings]

=People Who We Could Talk To:=

The Director of the Greene County Emergency Response Agency:
Rosanne Anders Director Email 45 N. Detroit St. Lower Level Xenia, OH 45385

For More Engineer/Architectural Based Info:
Garrett's Dad :-)

FEMA Region V Representatives FEMA Reigion V Contact List (Scroll down untill you see "Contact Us"

OSU Meteorology Club OSU Meteorology Club Contact Page

Useful Links: Natural Disasters Info

=Field Trip Idea:= We could visit on of the middle schools effected and talk to them about the safety precautions and the building safety made in order to better understand ways that we ourselves could make schools safer from tornadoes.