In some cases, closets or bathrooms are being fortified to double as "safe rooms" that can withstand furious winds even if the rest of the house is blown away. In 2011, Oklahoma announced the ...

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is offering a statewide grant lottery to help homeowners build Federal Emergency ...

A new set of construction guidelines will increase public safety for people evacuated to storm shelters and those who use safe rooms in their homes during hurricanes and tornados. The International ...

Mississippi homeowners can apply for a grant to install FEMA-compliant safe rooms, with a lottery system determining ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – If you are in a tornado warning in Springfield and need somewhere to go for shelter, a few of the school buildings do have tornado-safe rooms. Click here for the full list of storm ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When a tornado siren sounds, it is important to head to your safe space right away. For many people, that is a basement or a storm shelter, but if you don’t have one, where do you go?

The Tulsa Fire Department emphasizes the importance of tornado preparedness, smoke detector checks, and crisis intervention training to ensure community safety during spring weather challenges. With ...

ST. LOUIS -- Never mind toasters, blenders and slow cookers. Joplin, Missouri, tornado survivors Kayla and Ricky Smith had a more practical request for a wedding gift -- shelter from the next big ...

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has launched a Residential Safe Room Grant Lottery Program to help Mississippi ...

At 6:36 p.m. on Thursday, the National Weather Service released an updated tornado warning in effect until 6:45 p.m. for Oneida County. "At 6:35 p.m., a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a ...

At 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday, the National Weather Service issued an updated tornado warning in effect until 10:30 p.m. for DeKalb County. Quarter-sized hail (1 inch) is predicted with the incoming storm. ...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery -- for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor ...