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We paused in the hall, where alcoves displayed striking wood sculptures that artists had carved out of tree trunks torn up by the tornado. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Education , Disasters

Simplified: Joplin High School's hallways display wood sculptures made by artists from trees destroyed in the tornado.

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3 weeks ago
So he and his wife founded their own company in 2024 as “a turnkey solution” for shattered superintendents awash in problems after disasters, he said. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Education , Disasters

Simplified: C.J. Huff and his wife founded their own company in 2024 to assist superintendents after disasters.

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3 weeks ago
When we spoke on the phone a few weeks ago, he was about to travel to central Pennsylvania to meet with a superintendent whose school was hit by a tornado in August. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Travel , Education , Disasters

Simplified: A few weeks before the article's writing, C.J. Huff was planning to travel to central Pennsylvania to meet a superintendent whose school was hit by a...

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3 weeks ago
Mariah Vazquez, whose home was destroyed in the tornado, entered the new Joplin High when it opened in 2014. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , People , Disasters

Simplified: Mariah Vazquez's home was destroyed in the Joplin tornado and she entered the new high school when it opened in 2014.

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3 weeks ago
The district barely lost enrollment, and over the next few years, it actually improved educational outcomes. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Disasters

Simplified: In the years following the 2011 tornado, the Joplin school district experienced minimal enrollment loss and improved its educational outcomes.

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3 weeks ago
In 2017, he was hired to help the Department of Health and Human Services with its disaster-relief efforts, advising school leaders on how to rebuild their districts after devastating storms, wildfire... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , People , Disasters

Simplified: C.J. Huff was hired in 2017 by the Department of Health and Human Services to advise on disaster relief for schools.

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3 weeks ago
The tornado had destroyed six schools in Joplin: the regular and technical high schools, two middle schools and two elementary schools, facilities that taught more than half the district’s 7,911 stude... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Infrastructure , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado destroyed six schools that served over half of the district's 7,911 students.

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3 weeks ago
About 30 minutes after it set down, it lifted. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado was on the ground for about 30 minutes.

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3 weeks ago
A week later, Huff held a news conference in front of the ruins of the high school. School, he declared, would start on time in August. 1.000

👤 C.J. Huff 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Disasters

Simplified: One week after the 2011 tornado, Superintendent C.J. Huff declared that school would start on time in August.

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3 weeks ago
More than 100 students had been injured. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Public Health , Disasters

Simplified: More than 100 students were injured in the 2011 Joplin tornado.

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3 weeks ago
The storm also killed seven Joplin students, including one who was handed a diploma by Huff hours beforehand. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Public Health , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado killed seven students.

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3 weeks ago
Three more elementary schools and an administrative building had obvious damage. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Infrastructure , Disasters

Simplified: Three additional elementary schools and an administrative building in Joplin sustained damage from the 2011 tornado.

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3 weeks ago
And it ultimately killed 161 people, making it the deadliest tornado in America in over half a century. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Public Health , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado killed 161 people, making it the deadliest in the U.S. in more than 50 years.

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3 weeks ago
It gobbled up nursing homes, churches, 500 businesses and nearly 7,500 houses, more than a third of the city’s housing stock. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Infrastructure , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado destroyed 500 businesses and nearly 7,500 houses, which was over one-third of the city's housing stock.

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3 weeks ago
The Joplin tornado was a rain-wrapped wedge that expanded to a mile wide, making it hard to identify until it was nearly on you. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado was a rain-wrapped wedge that grew to one mile in width.

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3 weeks ago
The tornado touched down just southwest of Joplin, gathered steam, then carved a six-mile line straight through the city, its winds cresting above 200 miles an hour. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado carved a six-mile path through the city with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour.

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3 weeks ago
The weather on May 22, 2011, was bright and cloudless in Joplin, Mo., ideal for a high school graduation. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Disasters

Simplified: The weather in Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011 was bright and cloudless before the tornado.

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3 weeks ago
Something else that may have added to the deluge caused by the plunging ice and rock was the exceptionally large amount of snow that fell in the region last October and November, the researchers said. 1.000

👤 the researchers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Disasters , Climate

Simplified: Researchers said that an exceptionally large amount of snowfall in the region last October and November may have contributed to the deluge.

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3 weeks ago
Three weeks after the disaster, the death toll stands at over 1,300. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Statistics , Disasters

Simplified: The death toll from the Himalayan floods stood at over 1,300 three weeks after the disaster.

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3 weeks ago
Nepal estimates it will cost $5 billion to recover and rebuild. 1.000

👤 Nepal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Government , Disasters

Simplified: Nepal estimates the cost to recover and rebuild from the floods will be $5 billion.

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3 weeks ago