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Articles, Publications, and Documents

Articles
Contains relevant stories regarding safe room utilization.

Publications and Documents
Below is a list of helpful guides regarding safe rooms.

• Taking Shelter From the Storm: Building a Safe Room Inside Your Home or Small Business (FEMA 320)
• Taking Shelter From the Storm: Building a Safe Room Inside Your Home or Small Business (FEMA L-233 Brochure)
• Design and Construction Guidance for Community Safe Rooms (FEMA 361)
• Tornado Protection: Selecting Refuge Areas in Buildings (FEMA 431)
• Design Guidance for Shelters and Safe Rooms (FEMA 453)
• Building Your Safe Room
• Safe Room and Community Shelter Resources CD (FEMA388 CD)
• New Recovery Advisories from the Tornado MATs for Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia
• Community Safe Room Fact Sheet
• Residential Safe Room Fact Sheet

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Display Panels and Graphic, Photographs, and Maps

Display Panels and Graphic

Photographs

• Images of Ft. Worth, Texas, Tornado Damage
• Images of Tornado Safe Rooms Being Built

Maps

• May 8, 2003, and May 3, 1999, Tornado Tracks with Shelter Locations Constructed Under the Oklahoma Safe Room Initiative
• GeoTech Research Lab Seasonal Analysis of Tornado Alley Graphic
• Texas Tech University GIS Map Showing the Distribution of Historical Tornadoes from 1950-1995

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