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Old 06-08-2020, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by sswitenki View Post
We are pretty new and this is first time I even thought about it. We have a tornado warning and live in smaller 2bd home in Lady Lake. Unlike MidWest, we don’t have basement to run for shelter. We don’t have interior rooms. People just head to closet ? Are rec centers tornado shelters?? advise??
On YouTube you can find videos about building tornado shelters of wood, bolted into the slab. This could be done in a larger walk-in closet, for example. But they take a lot of wood and cost quite a bit. Fun project, though.

Constructing a Wood Tornado Shelter (1 of 6) - YouTube