Storm Shelters

So when I bought my house in historic Frisco, it came with this really ugly underground storm shelter with standing water. I talked to the contractor about removing this eyesore, but then decided it might make a good wine cellar or possibly a good tornado shelter. I have noticed plenty of storm shelters in my neighborhood. Someone put the date of 1960 in the concrete on mine.

I decided to do some research to find out why all the storm shelters.

Well there was a HUGE tornado that started in Dallas Lovers Lane area and ended in Frisco in the Stonebriar area. There were 200 injuries, 10 deaths, and $2.5 million in damage. This was 1957. I'm going to assume that this is the reason for the lovely storm shelter in my backyard. I don't know the exact population in Frisco in 1957, but this is what I have found:

Census

• 1950 - 736
• 1960 - 1184

Here is a link to the Frisco tornado information. You can use Google maps to enter the latitude and longitude to see where the storms were.

http://www.usa.com/frisco-tx-natural-disasters-extremes.htm

More recently in 2006 Anna area had fatalities in a tornado.