Bagnall: Construction trades tight even before post-tornado rebuilding efforts

The terrifying thing about tornadoes is their randomness, with disproportionately few suffering the brunt of the pain.
So it was in the capital region Friday when mere hundreds of households — out of more than half a million across the region — were stunned by the sudden turn in their lives.
In the days to come, the shock of what’s been lost will in many cases be replaced by frustration at how long it takes to put things back to normal, at least as far as physical things are co