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2A ❚ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019 ❚ APPEAL TRIBUNE Hemp Continued from Page 1A Opponents, including the Turner Fire Department and Cascade School Dis- trict, had cited concerns about in- creased truck traffic on narrow, wind- ing, Parrish Gap Road, which also is used by school buses, bicyclists and farm equipment. They worried odors and particulate matter could interfere with farms and a dairy nearby. And they said criminals could try to steal hemp stored on the property. Storms Continued from Page 1A In all, there was $1.1 million in dam- age from the storm and the county de- clared it a local emergency. After the tornado, the police depart- ment was relegated to setting up its command center in the intersection of public streets since the buildings hous- ing the police and fire departments were damaged. “We were not prepared to deal with stuff like that. Tornados in Oregon?” Schmitz said. “What do we do? We eventually moved it into the fire department once we found that the building was fine. But we had to go through buildings and de- cide if people were trapped.” There were precious few minutes from when the storm appeared on weather radar and when it began rip- ping through Aumsville. Even if the StormReady system had been in place, it likely wouldn’t have made much difference in alerting the public. “It was one of the stronger tornados in Oregon,” NOAA Warning Coordina- tion Meteorologist Tyree Wilde said. Getting cities prepared for disasters Wilde said the StormReady program started in the Tornado Alley city of Tul- sa, Okla., in the late 1990s and has ex- panded nationwide to communities in vulnerable areas. Though Aumsville is the first city in the Willamette Valley to receive the cer- tification, most cities on the Oregon Coast have it as they are in tsunami “We had a broad coalition of people in the area who worked very hard to ex- press their concerns against the appli- cation due to the potential loss of valu- able farmland and other conflicts,” said Roger Kaye, president of Friends of Mar- ion County, a local land-use watchdog. Kaye also lives about 2 miles south of the site. Marion County already has approved a half-dozen hemp processing facilities. But Jupiter’s proposal was by far the largest, county officials said. Contact the reporter at tloew@statesmanjournal.com, 503- 399-6779 or follow at Twitter.com/Tra- cy_Loew areas. In order to receive the certification, the cities must establish a 24-hour warning post and emergency opera- tions center – Aumsville’s police depart- ment – have more than one way to re- ceive the warnings and alert the public, promote the importance through com- munity seminars and develop a formal plan, including training spotters and holding emergency exercises. “And you want redundant ways to re- ceive and disseminate. In case one fails, you have three or four different meth- ods,” Wilde said. Technology has helped Aumsville in some areas, such as METCOM 911. Schmitz said the city has access to the Everbridge Mass Notification system to be able to alert citizens among other communication tools. “We work with the fire department ... because we want to be able to identify our vulnerable populations,” Schmitz said. “So somebody who might not be able to get out of a nursing home or adult care facility, we know to go and get those people if we have to do evacuation.” The first of 20 cities in Marion County Marion County is embarking on get- ting all 20 cities in the county prepared with similar systems. Aumsville is the first of the cities al- phabetically, but it also is the one most looked at because of the tornado. “I did some research and in the last, I think it was 50 years … that of all of the counties in Oregon, Marion County has had the most tornados in the last 50 years,” said Marion County Emergency Management Program Coordinator Krista Carter said. Address: P.O. 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Aumsville residents are rebuilding their community a year after a tornado ripped through town, leaving a path of construction. This home's roof has been repaired after a tree fell on it during the tornado. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. 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