tornado shelters

Underground safety rooms

Tornado shelters are reinforced structures designed to protect people during tornadoes.

They may be underground storm cellars, basement safe rooms, or above-ground bunkers built to withstand extreme winds and flying debris.

Public tornado shelters serve communities in tornado-prone regions: The school doubled as a tornado shelter during storm season.

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