Libby Finochiaro stood on a porch when she was about 9-years-old, watching a small white tornado hit a red barn.
Finochiaro is the new emergency response coordinator for the East-Central District Health Department and jumped into the job in August before the fall surge began in earnest. But, that tornado is what started it all.
âThat was my trigger for being interested in weather and disasters,â Finochiaro said.
Finochiaro is a Midwesterner who grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving to Papillion in 1999. That year she was going into the sixth grade.
She lived in Papillion for 21 years and moved to Columbus in early October.