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Monday, March 5, 2012
Governor Robert Bentley flew into the Eagle Creek Community in Jackson's Gap Sunday afternoon. When the helicopter landed in front of Eagle Creek Baptist Church, there was a crowd awaiting the governor. Bentley walked up to different storm survivors and volunteers, reaching out his hand and having a brief conversation with each of them. He thanked several people for the volunteer efforts and apologized to others who have had to withstand the pain and destruction from the storms. Although Governor Bentley has had to make several of these tornado damage tours, he says it doesn't get any easier. "Unfortunately, they all look the same. As you go through and you see some structures that are not built as soundly as others." After viewing the storm track, he said it was even more apparent to him that manufactured homes and mobile homes are not safe places to live. He is pushing for sturdier homes for Alabamians, possibly through stricter building codes on new constructions. The Governor is also touting less loss of life on the use of storm shelters. He also wants to see more individual and community safe rooms. Bentley envisions them spaced out across the state so that more people have access to them. Although there was only one fatality in the storm, Bentley said one was too many. He hopes that more people will continue to make emergency plans and find more ways to be notified when severe weather is imminent.
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