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- FACT: Since 1980, approximately 20,000 to 30,000 shelters have been built.
- FACT: According to the Texas Tech University a properly built, tested, and installed saferoom
is effective in 99.99% of all tornadoes, including F5 tornadoes. This has been documented and proven.
- FACT: Approximately 10,000 lives are saved each year due to shelters and emergency plans.
Thirty six percent (36%) of Americans do not have emergency preparedness plans.
- FACT: On average, 80 deaths each year are directly attributed to the approxiate 1000 tornadoes
reported.
- FACT: An average of ten tropical cyclones reaching storm strength with six of these becoming hurricanes
and two of those actually striking the coast of the U.S.
- FACT: Nationwide, hurricanes cause 60 injuries and an average of 17 deaths per year.
- FACT: Texas Tech University has been investigating tornadoes and tornado damage for over 30 years.
They have never once seen a slab with the proper footings and minimal cement requirement (such as a home slab) lifted or moved.
If air can not get under the slab, it can not lift the slab (physics).
- FACT: A common misconception is that a heavy vehicle may be lifted by a tornado and thrown onto
an above ground shelter destroying it. The fact is, a very few are rolled at speeds that are less than 30
mph. According to the NOAA, which rates tornadoes for the F scale rating, the reason the Oklahoma City Tornadoes of
1999 were rated an F5 was because they found two compact cars that had been thrown over 1/4 mile away. This was an F5,
but it did not throw 50 ton trucks and train.

Picture of tornado near St. Andrews State Park in Panama City, Florida
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