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Tornado rips through Vermeer factory in Iowa, dealing major damage and injuring at least 7
The campus suffered "significant" damage to both its structures and to the personal property on campus at the time. Seven people sustained minor injuries.
July 19, 2018
Business
Subcontractors of all experience levels needed for work in Irma, Harvey disaster areas
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have left a wake of demolished homes and strewn debris, and also high demand for subcontractors who can load, haul and dump large amounts of material. Pay rates for subcontractors are also starting to rise, sometimes leading to bidding wars between local governments as communities become more desperate for relief. That […]
September 26, 2017
Roadbuilding
Federal grant to provide $2 million to repair roads damaged by Joplin tornado reconstruction
A grant of $2 million from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) will be used to repair roads in Duquesne, a small Missouri community that was struck by the EF-5 tornado that also decimated nearby Joplin in May 2011. Heavy equipment and heavy loads passing through Duquesne damaged the city’s roads during debris removal following […]
May 29, 2015
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In Moore, just as in Tuscaloosa, the power of “just doing” will be revealed
It was a few days short of six months ago that I wrote about Hurricane Sandy and how volunteers should respond in the wake of catastrophic natural disasters.  Those of you who are heading to Oklahoma soon might do well to read it here first. Nineteen months before that I blogged on our old website […]
May 24, 2013
Roadbuilding
Lattatudes
In the aftermath of the violence, the people in this town made me proud to live here.
June 3, 2011
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