Tornado Alley upgrade recommended for new houses in Oklahoma City
Whole houses will never be as safe as safe rooms during tornado season — but they can be safer.
Homebuilders know it, but absent demand they're reluctant to incorporate the necessary construction techniques and features. The solution is to educate homebuyers to ask for them, said John Bourdeau , a hazard performance analyst with the Federal Emergency Management Agency .
That will happen if top builders ad...
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