Fourteen people were killed when a tornado hit Rolling Fork this spring. It's one of many Mississippi communities without a public tornado safe room. ROLLING FORK, Miss. — The tornado that plowed ...

VINTON, Iowa (AP) — When tornado sirens sound in Vinton, residents in the northwest part of town can take shelter in what an architect described as a "bulletproof concrete tank." The Benton County ...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery -- for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor ...

Both cost and the unlikelihood of a strong tornado striking the McLennan County region are the main deterrents to building safe rooms in local schools. Chris Huckabee, president of Huckabee Inc., said ...

OF KEEPING YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES SAFE. DURING SEVERE WEATHER. YOU’LL SOMETIMES HEAR US TELL YOU TO GET IN YOUR SAFE ROOM. BUT DO YOU KNOW THE SAFEST PLACE IN YOUR HOME OR APARTMENT? METEOROLOGIST ...

An above-ground residential safe room is pictured amid debris from the EF-5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. Submitted photo Hoosier homeowners who want to build a tornado safe ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis-Shelby County Schools is still silent after WREG asked them why the safe room, a place the community is supposed to be able to go during severe weather, apparently wasn’t open ...

School Superintendent Andy Adams always felt uneasy when storms headed toward his tiny southwest Missouri community. If one hit during school, would the 1934 building be able to keep his kids safe, or ...