to about $2,000. homeowners in moore, oklahoma, have used fema grants to build safe rooms there. it has happened. the city has been trying to participate in that grant program in a bigger way trying to get more fema funding to build more shelters in moore, oklahoma. in recent months and years, they say they have had trouble getting through the application process. in february of this year, officials in moore announced on their website that they were trying to get moore fure fundin shelters but fema requirements in their words were a constantly moving target. that was in february that they said that. then yesterday of course 14 years after the big may 3rd tornado, ten years after the other big one that hit moore in 2003, it happened again. and we cannot know for sure what difference more safe rooms would have made in moore, oklahoma, when that tornado struck. we cannot know. we do know two schools leveled by that twister did not have
restored and water levels are back to their normal pressure. as far as infrastructure goes, electricity is going to be out in many areas for quite some time. and so you re going to have a lot of situations where crews are coming in from around the region to try to help our power company try to restore order in that respect. there s going to be a tremendous amount of cleanup and debris as far as the infrastructure goes and sometimes that s where the federal government s help can come in and aid from a long-term budgetary perspective. the insurance commissioner is also walking around. talking damage here in the billions of dollars. that s going to have an economic impact in a lot of different ways. this obviously is an area of the country that has dealt with tornado devastation before. sometimes on large scale like this. when you as the mayor of oklahoma city think about rebuilding, is there anything that you want to try to prioritize in terms of
talking damage here in the billions of dollars. that s going to have an economic impact in a lot of different ways. this obviously is an area of the country that has dealt with tornado devastation before. sometimes on large scale like this. when you as the mayor of oklahoma city think about rebuilding, is there anything that you want to try to prioritize in terms of increasing the survivability of future storms and resilience of your communities and surrounding areas when storms like this inestab inevitably come back through again. this is the third time in 15 years. oklahoma city has only had three significant tornadoes in that time, two really bad, the two really worse in our city s history, and they ve all three come on almost an exact same axis across the same part of the city and part of the metro. we need to figure out why that s occurring if we can.
were caught inside their home. they died in the storm s fury. each and every person who sought refuge in the two public shelters walked out alive that night. tushka s mayor told the paper at the time the death toll would have been higher if there hadn t been the safe room to take shelter in. we are thankful we had that. if you want to know what people do with the roughly 15 minutes lead time that the national weather service is usually able to give when a tornado is coming to your town, if you are within 15 minutes of tushka, oklahoma, you use that lead time to drive to tushka to get into one of those town shelters. people in the surrounding area all come to town to get into that community shelter. the tulsa world says statewide oklahoma has 77 of these big safe rooms like tushka s scattered around the state. community safe rooms. most funded by fema grants and they are incredibly valuable
these tests? the fema guidelines require wind pressures for the storm come from a 250-mile-per-hour ground speed tornado and that s speed on the ground and that the typical debris generated by that storm would be a wooden 2x4 that s 15 pounds and propelled at 100 miles an hour. so you recreate those conditions in a lab using these commercially available buildings. do you feel like people who are marketing these obviously this is a public safety issue, also a business. when you are finding people marketing these, are their products good products when people market these things as safe, are you generally finding that they re right? well, anything that s come through our laboratory we list those companies on our website