Emergency Plan - What would you do??

[Barbara]

> ...SO... I really do want to know how to have a safe room and AIR at
the 
> same time. Should I have plants? ...
 
People that have safe rooms or storm cellars in tornado alley don't
stay in them long enough to have issues with air. I'm not even sure
that these cellars are airtight anyway. Remember the storm cellar in
"The Wizard of Oz?"  Conversely basements are rare In Florida
("hurricane alley?") The water table is often too close to the surface
to build them. Drowning is the bigest risk with hurricanes anyway.

There is a house in my neighborhood with a bomb shelter. It built by
an ex-military man. The best he could do is an above-ground basement
(had windows.)  Why did he bother?