<p>[Can</a> Anything Be Done To Tornado-Proof A House? : NPR](<a href=“http://www.npr.org/2013/05/22/185964714/how-to-reduce-damage-from-punishing-tornadoes]Can”>http://www.npr.org/2013/05/22/185964714/how-to-reduce-damage-from-punishing-tornadoes)</p>
<p>recording found above</p>
<p>Were safe rooms created at UA after the 2011 tornado? Presumably there is some sort of emergency plan in place. The aftermath of the Oklahoma tornado is heartbreaking but the story that haunts me the most is those poor third graders who drowned when the basement ceiling caved in and the water mains burst trapping them.</p>
<p>I heard that Tuscaloosa 2011 experience was EF4? Is that true?!</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>yes, it is true. EF4. I was there the morning after and walked 15th Street and up McFarland. It looked like a war zone. The Lofts apartments are going in where a shopping center was destroyed. The old Full Moon was there, too.</p>
<p>Albion…I think that’s true. I remember reading about the eng’rs developing those safe rooms during the months after the the tornado hit.</p>
<p>There are well-marked designated safe areas in every building on campus. Some people feel more safe inside buildings built between 1950 and 1980, but that is more their personal preference. FWIW, there is a document somewhere on the UA website listing the year that each building was originally constructed.</p>
<p>Tornado-proofing ones house is a very good idea in tornado prone areas.</p>