A proposal to incorporate the first U.S. guidance on tornado-resistant design into the model 2024 International Building Code passed the International Code Council’s structural committee by a vote of 14-0.

Marc L. Levitan recalls being at first enthralled by the sound and light show of the thunderstorms and then traumatized by the flooding in his neighborhood in Bucks County, Pa., during 1972’s Hurricane Agnes. He was 10.   

Rescue operations end and recovery begins after twisters, uncommon for this month, swept through the Ohio River Valley, collapsing an Illinois Amazon distribution facility and a Kentucky candle factory.