USA: Alabama can learn from tragedy

Six months after the tornadoes that hit Alabama, Ron Gray, executive director of the governor’s Tornado Recovery Action Council says, "people in the hardest hit areas were most grateful for the help, but we have learned some useful information in talks with them. Now we want to turn them into 'actionable' items." According to TimesDaily.com, preliminary suggestions include the need for areas-specific warnings and for public education about disaster preparedness in ways they can relate to, as well as multiple complaints about failure of warning signals which indicate that warning systems do not always work.