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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Firpo" data-source="post: 4209122" data-attributes="member: 45550">I’m thinking you’re right. I live out in the county and there’s a siren at the water tower maybe 1/4 mile away. I have really good hearing and can’t hear it blasting away when I’m in my house. Now speaking on my “basement”. I’m thinking it might be a little different than how most are constructed as every home grown Okie (Okiejoe for one) that’s been down there says “ah man, you guys will be plenty safe in here.” Yes, it certainly wouldn’t be as safe as an actual tornado shelter but the way they cut it into the hill (15’ in then went 90° from that about 45’) it’s surrounded on all four sides 10’ down by earth and reinforced concrete. We hunker down in a far back corner which is a 20 sqft walk-in shower and just the way it’s built it would take some really bad luck for anything to get to us. That’s all underneath and right in the middle of a two story 3,000 sqft home that’s set on concrete slabs on three sides. Maybe I’m being blissfully naïve but I figure If a tornado does get us down there I’m confident it was the Lord that called us home. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="😉" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" /></blockquote>