Storm Shelter Business Is Booming After A Spring Of Deadly Tornadoes
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Jeff Marsh welds a safe room shelter at Twister Safe on June 18, 2011 in Neosho, Missouri. Once thought of as a luxury item there has been a surge of interest from homeowners in purchasing shelters to ride out damaging storms ever since a F5 tornado tore through the town of Joplin, Missouri. Ranging in price from $3,000 to $5,000 homeowners can supplement the cost with a mortgage insurance program offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for installing a safe room built to FEMA specifications. Lawmakers in Alabama have even considered requiring construction of storm shelters in mobile home parks after forty people died in April. (Photo by Julie Denesha/Getty Images)
Jeremy Davis (L) demonstrates the operation of the safe room shelter door lock to homeowner Rob Hamlin on June 18, 2011 in Neosho, Missouri. (Photo by Julie Denesha/Getty Images)
Liam McKeough, 9, helps guide a finished safe room onto a trailer at Twister Safe, a small family business that specializes in the construction of safe rooms June 17, 2011 in Neosho, Missouri. A surge of interest in safe rooms has been seen since an F5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri in May. (Photo by Julie Denesha/Getty Images)
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