It's a scary event when a tornado comes to town. Schools and businesses close, sirens go off, and we're encouraged to seek shelter until the danger has passed. But afterward most of us go back to our lives, leaving others to clean up the communities that have been hit. Not Meredith LaBarge. The junior industrial systems engineering major at UAH remembered how helpless she felt after watching the 2011 tornadoes on the news and determined this time would be different "It hit me that I could do something about – it's right next door," she says. "So I went to my leadership advisor, Kacey Schaum, and asked what I could do about it. And she said get a group of people together and volunteer."