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Campers ride out early-morning storms in shelters
June 12, 2008
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Linwood — It was a long night at Tall Oaks Conference Center camp, where 69 young people with muscular dystrophy were taken to shelter as storms moved toward the camp grounds.
Some of the youths in the weeklong camp were taken to a basement shelter area under the camp's dining hall, but those in wheelchairs were kept in the campground's main conference center, said Angela Hills, camp director for the Kansas City area Muscular Dystrophy Association. The campers were made aware of the danger and slept on mattresses in the two locations. Had the storm proved dangerous for the area, the youths in the above-ground shelter would have been moved to individual rooms in a center wing of the building.
Camp counselors kept a close eye on three different Internet radar sites until the National Weather Service removed a tornado watch for the area that includes the camp. The 83 camp counselors and staff were made aware of the severe weather procedures during an 18-hour orientation before camp kicked off, Hills said.
More storms are expected in Northeast Kansas overnight.
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