Special Post For Kansas City Area Residents

Tuesday is the 68th anniversary of the F-5 Ruskin Heights Tornado. It killed 44 residents of eastern Kansas and south Kansas City, Missouri. Last autumn, I wrote about the Ruskin Heights Tornado Monument being destroyed when a car occupied by four uninsured teenaged boys missed the corner slammed into it. There is good news. There is now a firm plan in place to replace the memorial. The story about the replacement is here . The tornado was historic, because it directly led to the Weather Bureau finally issuing tornado warnings .