MU receives StormReady Certification at ceremony hosted on campus

After a year of collaboration between the University of Missouri and the National Weather Service, MU held an award ceremony in front of Jessie Hall celebrating the achievement featuring Kevin Deitsch of the National Weather Service office in Saint Louis. Kevin Deitsch, "I mean, the StormReady program is really just building that partnership between, you know, us and the Mizzou campus."

Thomas Schwent and Allison Collier are both students at MU who spearheaded this initiative and details the final steps in qualifying for the certification. "Kevin Deitsch came out here and he walked through the residence halls. He checked storm shelter locations, he checked that signage was in its proper place, he checked some public spaces as well, and he made sure that everything we said we did, we did up to his liking."

Alison Collier spoke about the support and perspective gained after today's speakers at the ceremony held in front of Jessie Hall, "Hearing their perspectives on like how important this was to the university, it really like made me feel like um we made an impact."

The StormReady certification included additional help from the MU assistant director of residence life for residential operation Marcus George, the MU emergency management coordinator Jerry Jenkins, and assistant teaching professor Eric Aldrich.

This certification will last for three years before having to be re-certified.