hurricane shelter
Cyclone evacuation building
A hurricane shelter is a structure designed to protect people during hurricanes and severe tropical storms.
These may be purpose-built reinforced buildings, designated public facilities like schools or community centers, or fortified rooms within homes.
The county opened hurricane shelters ahead of the storm.
We rode out the hurricane in a neighbor's shelter.
- stormSevere atmospheric disturbance
- storm surgeWind-driven coastal flooding
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- mass evacuationOrganized large-scale departure
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
safe room · refuge · safety · emergency · emergency supplies · wind · flooding · sandbags · basement · supplies · disaster · FEMA · plywood · generator · flashlight · canned · radio · community
- emergency facilitiesfire station, police station, hospital, emergency room, ER
- shelterstent, hut, igloo, burrow, cave
- emergency shelterstemporary housing, emergency housing, emergency beds, emergency bed, warming center
- safe roomspanic room, hidden room, storm cellar, reinforced door, reinforced walls
- coastal structuresseawalls, pier, breakwaters, jetties, breakwater
hurricane shelteropen field
Unenclosed outdoor space
outdoor space · beach · mobile home · tent · high-rise
hurricane shelterdanger zone
High-risk location
evacuation zone · flood zone · death trap · impact zone · kill zone
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