Safe Rooms - Shelter from Deadly Storms

More tornadoes are being reported and I was just thinking of yesterday being the last day of the National Severe Weather Awareness Week.  What better way to be prepared is to build a shelter in your home for you and your family to be secure when a last minute warning is heard and you have just 12 minutes to run for shelter.

FEMA - Which is the Federal emergency management agency, provides the public with important information to be prepared for weather events.  FEMA's website states the following; Safe Rooms - Know your risk and have a safe place to go... with time to get there.  When extreme weather threatens, individuals and families need advanced warning and protection from the dangerous forces of extreme winds.   Individuals and communities in tornado and hurricane areas need structurally sound safe rooms and early alert systems.  Detailed information from FEMA about Safe Rooms can be found here; http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/saferoom/

I have stated a few times before about the importance of having a Weather Alert radio handy if you live in a area of the country that has storms that cause damage on a regular basis.  Because of recent flooding seen in our area last year, it looks like no area is safe from storms.

An article in today's news mentioned about how more families are building their own tornado shelters.
Several parts of the US has seen terrible storms in just the last two months, people react to the news of tornadoes causing destruction to entire communities and people want to be prepared to protect their families.

Please visit the article in The Times Herald to continue reading this story please click here  http://www.timesherald.com/article/

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