(WAFF) - People in Decatur have two more safe places to go during severe weather. Decatur High School and Austin High School have became storm shelters. In the last year alone, Morgan County has seen ...

DECATUR, Ala. — Hands Across Decatur, a local nonprofit organization, will open its doors Friday evening to provide emergency ...

Salespeople at Valley Storm Shelters in Huntsville say there are big differences in above-ground shelters and those installed below-ground. They say above ground shelters don’t carry some of ...

"Now, we’re seeing Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama ... shift from below-ground shelters to EF-5-rated above-ground shelters," David Cullison, an account manager with Survive-A-Storm, told ...

Now that it is tornado season in north Alabama, a local storm shelter company is seeing twice as many calls for installations, and another local company said they have seen a large influx in ...

Over the years, advancements have been made to storm shelters to make ... has been the development of above-ground shelters. “We can put above and below-ground in homes preexisting or new ...

U.S. Storm Shelters out of Decatur now has a 200 person waiting list of people wanting to buy in ground shelters after seeing the devastation caused by recent severe weather. Brett West ...

An agreement under negotiation would allow the city to use Decatur's two new high schools as public storm shelters when they are available and a tornado watch is issued for Morgan County.

Options range from seeking shelter in basements to interior above-ground rooms to below-ground storm shelters. However, there are pros and cons to all of these options. Many experts agree that ...