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SAFEROOM ALTERNATIVES INSTALL

Watch your step to avoid sharp objects.

Stay away from power lines, downed trees, and puddles that could hide live wires.

Keep your family together in a safe location and wait for emergency personnel to arrive.

If no shelter is available, lie face down on low ground protecting the back of your head with your arms.

Are you outdoors? Shelter in a sturdy building.

Put your head below the windows and protect it with your arms and a blanket, coat, or other cushion. Stay in your vehicle with your seatbelt on. If you cannot safely exit your vehicle, park it out of traffic lanes. Do not seek shelter under an overpass, bridge, or in a drainage ditch. Even if your home is tied down, it is not as safe as a sturdy building. Wear footwear with thick soles to your safe location.

Cover yourself with a blanket, mattress, helmet, or other thick covering. Crouch down as low as possible to the floor, face down, and cover your head with your arms. Are you indoors? Go to the lowest floor, to a small, central, interior room, under a stairwell, or to an interior hallway with no windows.Community shelters may include stores, malls, churches, even airports.

Take refuge in a tested and approved storm shelter, safe room, or a community shelter labeled as an official tornado shelter.

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SAFEROOM ALTERNATIVES INSTALL

Always use a licensed contractor to install a safe room within, adjacent to, or outside of your home. Install a tornado safe room or storm shelter built to FEMA 320 guidelines or the ICC/NSSA 500 standard.Have a family tornado plan and know where you can safely take shelter.Severe season is upon which means it’s time to buckle down and learn exactly what to do in an extreme weather situation. This week is Tornado Week! Catch up on tornado facts, safety information, and more on the site and watch The Weather Channel starting at 8p ET throughout the week to see the network’s best and most shocking tornado shows.