Fraidy hole required
Non-native Oklahomans seek houses with tornado shelters

 
By Chris Brawley Morgan
Published: May 24, 2008

Amy Montgomery was ready to move to Oklahoma , if her young family's new home came with a particular feature — and it wasn't granite countertops.

What she wanted was a tornado shelter. As it happened, the Montgomery family did move last June to a home equipped with an in-ground shelter, one of the 268 homes so equipped in the Liberty Trails addition in southeast Oklahoma City .

The steel shelter below the ga...


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