TOWANDA, Kan. (KSNW) — One Butler County town is currently without a severe weather shelter, partially because its old plan posed a risk to the person responsible for opening it.
Until very recently, the city of Towanda’s severe weather plan relied entirely on a single city worker volunteering to drive across town during severe weather to open the shelter. When the weather is fair, the shelter is locked.
City Administrator Sarah Gooding said this created a gap in their plans. If that individual were unavailable or out of town, the shelter might remain closed, even as people came out of their homes in search of underground shelter…