Although better constructed than most prefab homes, brick houses aren’t immune from destructive tornadoes. Most tornadoes have windspeeds exceeding 100 miles per hour, the structural limit for most stick-built and brick-and-mortar foundations. Brick homes, constructed of interlaying and overlapping pieces, are heavier and collapse more quickly when compromised, creating a hardened, crumbling house of cards…
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“Not in my backyard” is a galvanizing rallying call for residents opposing polluting or noisy industries in their communities. The American tradition of dissent brings progress to neighborhoods while checking government powers for undue encroachments in our collective spheres of influence. Residents desire clean and safe townships away from unimagined catastrophes in far-flung areas seen…
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America has a tornado problem. So many tornadoes have touched down in the heartland that forecasters have likely lost count as they try to tally the score on America’s quickly-spinning storm odometer. Mother Nature is a heartless dealer in slinging dark-clouded, slowly descending funnel clouds onto the storm-ravaged communities below. Deadly storms have killed more…
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Although Oklahoma experiences more than 50 tornadoes annually, 2024 tipped the destructive scales by unleashing 152 recorded touchdowns. Oklahoma is in the heart of Tornado Alley. Stronger storms from worsening climate change effects will become the norm. An Oklahoma tornado shelter prevents storm-weary Sooners from packing up and looking for calmer fields like their ancestors.…
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Mother Nature is no fool, and severe weather isn’t a joke. Although millions of Midwesterners began their Tuesday with traditional Tom Foolery, chaotic storm clouds are taking a stern tone as another chaotic system will bring flash flooding, hail, and tornadoes to the area. Killer weather has become the region’s running cliche and no one…
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Netflix is prepping America for storm season with its newly released documentary, “The Twister: Caught In The Storm,” featuring previously unseen amateur storm footage of the 2011 Joplin tornado. The killer tornado claimed more than 150 lives, destroying more than 4,000 homes, as it ripped and roared across the city, leaving unprecedented damage. While more…
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Ready for some quality time? Although everyone’s family drives up the wall, frequent severe weather helps us all stay grounded during storm season. Small family storm shelters are a gentle reminder of what matters most: protection for loved ones with worsening weather patterns. While you might yammer on at the office about unruly or ungrateful…
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Rent-to-own storm shelters have a defined niche in the tornado protection market. Not every storm dilemma needs a permanent solution. Although permanent safe rooms better safeguard families and small companies, temporary tornado shelters are best for larger commercial projects subject to frequent relocations. While U.S. Safe Room doesn’t offer rent-to-own storm shelters, our financing options…
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Extreme weather aboveground safe rooms can mitigate abnormal, catastrophic weather events teetering on unprecedented proportions. Tornadoes, wildfires, dust storms, and other extreme phenomena that rarely occur as isolated events, let alone simultaneous dueling threats emerging from the same system, claimed at least 40 lives since Thursday. Authorities say the fast-moving weather produced several tornadoes claiming…
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Meteorologists got too close to the action when a funnel cloud tore through an Orlando news station Monday. Tired of all the negative press, a Florida tornado sat down for a live interview with the hard-pressing reporters, who were caught off-guard by the storm’s rebuttal. A weatherman, broadcasting live as the storm tore through the…
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