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- In the community survey, 66% of persons that were not in shelters at
the time of the tornado didn’t know or weren’t sure of where the nearest
shelter was located.
In the random telephone survey that was conducted later
in the OCMSA, respondents were asked two questions. First, they were asked
if they knew the location of the nearest storm shelter at the time of the
tornado. 37% of respondents said they didn’t know or weren’t sure of the
location of the nearest storm shelter at the time of the tornado. That
question was followed by a second question about whether they knew the
location at the time of the telephone interview (14 to 17 months later).
32% of respondents said that they didn’t know or weren’t sure. Of those,
17% of said they had storm shelters on their home premises at the time of
the telephone interview, compared to 14% who said that they had a storm
shelter on their home premises at the time of the tornado.
We can estimate from this data that a slight increase
in the knowledge and availability of shelters occurred among OCMSA
residents following the May 3 tornadoes.
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