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YES, I wanted the worry gone! We ordered right after the Moore tornado but the real push of IT HAS TO BE DONE was the El Reno tornado where I was sitting in Yukon Wal-Mart stressing and knowing my wife and little girl were headed towards another storm trying to get to my parents storm shelter. We live 200' from the town storm shelter but it is at the Public Elementary school and neither of us can imagine going into a hole in the ground with the understanding that when we come up the only things we may have is what is with us and some of those things not be firearms.

Coleman got wiped out by a tornado in WW2. We even used to have a bank here. Coleman never recovered to its former size. From what I've heard, the twister came at night. The really old houses have tornado shelters, and the newer ones mostly don't. But that's starting to change some. The rodeo arena on 48 S. of Coleman got hit by a twister a couple of years ago, it demolished some houses and was headed this way - we are talking about only a mile or so. The NOAH Weather Radios were going non stop as we waited in the tornado shelter. I've got good house insurance and I wasn't horrified at the sound of the oncoming monster like I used to be before we got the shelter. Used to be, we'd lie down in the bathtubs. Thank goodness we've got the shelter now.
 

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F5 will be installing ours in January. BTW the OSA discount Ryan gives will be better than the "fair special"
Check them out!
 

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It's NOAA, sorry, pet peeve

Thanks! I don't know how many times I've mispelled that! I appreciate it! Also, Coleman WAS destroyed in WW2, but I can find no mention of it on the internet. Everyone here knows about it, and still speaks of it. I will ask around about this further, and get to the bottom of it...
 

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Strange, my dad graduated from Coleman in the 40's, I don't remember him ever mentioning it. Certainly not saying it never happened, he just never talked about it. Of course if it was around 45 then he was in the Army then so he wouldn't have been there. Unfortunately he's no longer around for me to ask.
 

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Strange, my dad graduated from Coleman in the 40's, I don't remember him ever mentioning it. Certainly not saying it never happened, he just never talked about it. Of course if it was around 45 then he was in the Army then so he wouldn't have been there. Unfortunately he's no longer around for me to ask.

Well, I searched a couple of hours on the internet last night and couldn't find it, either. And I'm not from here. But these folks aint making this up. You can still see the concrete pads from where the buildings were. I first heard about it when I was working in Dan Hamilton's Feed Mill, stacking 40 tons a day. Now that was a man's job, haha! I cleaned that supper plate spotless when I got home, haha!
 

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