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2. Storm cellar - Wikipedia

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   FEMA P-320, Taking Shelter from the Storm: Building a Safe Room for Your Home or Small Business (2014) [3] and ICC/NSSA Standard for the Design and Construction of Storm Shelters [4] provide engineering and testing requirements to ensure that above ground shelters manufactured to the published specifications will withstand winds in excess of ...

3. Tornado preparedness - Wikipedia

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   Some above-ground safe rooms have been built with steel-rebar rods in cement-filled cinder blocks, to withstand winds of 250 miles per hour (400 km/h). Rural homes might have an outside storm cellar, or other external bunker, to avoid being trapped within a collapsing house. In rural homes, generators are also helpful to maintain power with ...

4. This map may save lives when there's a tornado threat - AOL

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   However, Croskery has noted that many tornado shelters don't open until there is an active tornado warning. "Thirteen minutes is the average lead time for a tornado. That's not a lot of time to ...

5. 2011 El Reno–Piedmont tornado - Wikipedia

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   Twelve workers were on the site when the tornado struck, and took shelter in the site's change house (a steel container serving as a locker room). Tied down by four steel cables anchored 5.5 feet (1.7 m) deep in the ground, the container was pummeled with debris.

6. Monster tornado in Rolling Fork laid bare a grim reality ...

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   A FEMA spokesperson said the agency has made significant investments in tornado shelters, having spent more than $158.5 million on 98 community safe rooms in 44 of Mississippi’s 82 counties ...

7. List of F4 and EF4 tornadoes (2010–2019) - Wikipedia

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   South of Arkadelphia, a second area of EF4 damage was observed, as a cinder block construction home was leveled and a car was thrown 130 yards (120 m). Nearby, an underground storm shelter collapsed onto the occupants sheltering inside as the tornado passed overhead. NWS: April 27 2011 United States Alabama, Georgia