TARRANT, Ala. ( WIAT ) — CBS 42’s Your Voice Your Station team first told you about the need for a storm shelter in Tarrant almost three years ago . Since our report, work that began earlier this year has suddenly stopped.
Randy Weaver first reached out to us in 2021 after Fultondale got hit by an EF-3 tornado. It destroyed homes and businesses, resulting in the death of a resident. Weaver has been fighting for a shelter closer to home in Tarrant so when the work stopped several weeks ago, he wanted to know why.
“It’s been way overdue, way overdue,” Weaver said.
Weaver walked with us around the site of the future Tarrant storm shelter in the rec center parking lot.
“They should be building a second or third one,” Weaver said. “There’s not another tornado shelter that I know of between here and Birmingham.”
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Construction started in March . Before long, everything stopped.
“They weren’t aware there was a pool here,” Weaver said. “I just don’t believe it at all.”