Rosalie, read through the information in the links I posted above. The lower the better in a tornado. An inner room, ie. a room that doesn't have an exterior wall, downstairs is best if you don't have a basement or celler.
My brother has lived in Tennessee for about 20 years. They have a laundry room in the center of their home which they keep stocked with extra blankets, pillows, battery powered weather radio, flashlights, clothes/shoes (in case they are in their night clothes when they go into the laundry room), medicine, a deck of cards, water and some food.
It breaks my heart to hear my 11-year-old niece tell me about sleeping on the floor in the laundry room when there are tornado warnings in the night. But, she is going to be like her Mom. A native of Tennessee who grew up with that type of precaution as a way of life.
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