I always marvel at the MANY mobile homes I see in the South. I can't help but think about the aftermath of hurricanes and tornadoes I've seen on TV. I pray everyone in those homes will never experience anything like that.
What exactly is a "safe" room? A room in in the interior of the house, with no windows?
We've been looking at real estate fairly close to the ocean, so of course there are no cellars. We had a tornado scare here in northern Connecticut last May. First thing I did was run to the cellar, as our local TV meteorologist was screaming that a tornado was nearby. We got pelted with hail, but no tornado, thank God. Made me wonder what we'll do in a house with no cellar...
There’s a joke in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird about a Yankee in AL who dares to build a cellar under his home. Tres suspicious! Yes, you have to have an interior room, usually a bathroom, without a window. We use our hallway. It may be whistling past the graveyard but our neighbor has said that where we live has never had a significant tornado. Believe me, it’s not something you think about every day here. There is so much beautiful weather.