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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Residential tornado shelters protect what matters most while shielding finances from overpriced building materials. While home storm shelters were once a luxury reserved for the wealthy, affordable residential tornado shelters trickle down to every demographic. Changes in steel engineering afforded economical options for first-time shelter owners. More than 30 percent of homeowners sought storm protection…
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This week is NC Severe Weather Preparedness Week. Although March in the Carolinas is more commonly associated with the NCAA college basketball tournament, tornado season also begins this month in the Tar Heel State. More than 30 tornadoes are forecasted in the state for the 2025 tornado season. Meteorologists urge North Carolina residents to stay…
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The 2025 Tornado Season could come early in the Deep South. A line of potent storms with enhanced tornadic risks is creeping easterly, and will affect the region beginning Monday night. Although tornado season doesn’t normally start until spring, Mother Nature doesn’t subscribe to conventional wisdom. Understanding complex and spontaneous weather patterns requires constant vigilance.…
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OSHA doesn’t require tornado shelters. Although OSHA is the federal body tasked with writing and enforcing safety standards nationwide, no regulations exist for tornado shelter composition and installation. While tornadoes are becoming more common, OSHA only provides standard guidance for tornado preparedness. U.S. Safe Room offers 1/4″ steel protection that meets FEMA 320 and 361…
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America is in a super-tornado drought. While tornado frequency increases annually, scientists have noted the telling disappearance of an EF5 tornado. The last EF5 tornado event occurred in Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. Scientists attribute this shifting dynamic not to a statistical anomaly but to changes in the tornado rating system. The longstanding F-scale tornado system…
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Determining the cost of a tornado shelter includes several factors. Shelter size, desired protection level, optional features, and occupancy should be considered when budgeting lifesaving bunkers and shelters. While each U.S. Safe Room model comes with solid steel paneling protection, customization will vary. Although residential and small business tornado shelters are standard for smaller populations,…
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