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Old 01-17-2016, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328 View Post
1. Get a weather alert radio and have it on a table next to your bed. Mine went off twice last night to give a tornado watch alert AND a severe thunderstorm warning. I have mine set for Sumter County only so I do not pick up Marion or Lake alerts.

2. If you are seriously worried about a tornado shelter, thete is a company at Crystal River who makes them. Basically, it is a septic tank (brand new - not used) you keep in your garage - or outdoors if permitted. It has a door on the side and you just go in the concrete septic tank at the first warning and hunker down. No tornado could blow a concrete septic tank over or away.

I will opt for the interior closet.
I disagree. If you have ever traveled thru the aftermath of a tornado, which I have done, and see things like combine moved from in front of a barn to 100 yards out in a field.............a little ole concrete septic would be of little value.
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