“Tornadoes terrorize the Southern states while recovery from Hurricane Katrina is still a fact of life — more than a year later — across Louisiana and Mississippi. Is this a good time to examine safe rooms?
A safe room has traditionally been defined as a place where the family can gather and wait out a storm under the safest possible conditions.
In recent years we have seen the evolution of the safe room. A safe room is now defined as a concrete or reinforced “bunker” in your home, basement or garage. Homes in tornado- and hurricane-prone areas are now often built with a concrete safe room in the center of the home.”
