Friday night’s severe weather has everyone on edge, but people living in a particular kind of home may be at an even greater risk.
Mobile home experts even say you're more likely to die in one if there's a tornado, and as KSPR’s Joanna Small reports, some parks in the Ozarks have taken that to heart.
One mobile home watch group says people living in mobile homes are nearly 2,500% more likely to die in a tornado.
Since 2000 almost half of all tornado deaths happened in trailer parks.
But one in Cedar County has been offering its residents a safe alternative since the 1980s.
When the clouds eerily pick up speed and the wind shakes their trailer Terri Rowe and Stormey Bedford head for cover.
They find it about 15 feet underground, conveniently located just across the street from their mobile home.
“Usually it’s standing room only,” explains Bedford.
“It is a poured concrete storm shelter. It does have the heavy metal doors. There's an outside area you go down into it.”
That’s Cheri Todd, owner of Woody's Mobile Home Park in Cedar County.
The place has taken the pro-active approach to severe weather for decades; the shelter's been here for a good 20 years.
“I would be terrified if we didn't have the shelter. I don't know what my residents would do if we had a bad tornado come through and we didn't have a place for them,” Todd says.
She says there are several other mobile home parks in El Dorado Springs but this is the only one with a storm shelter.
So people from the park next door actually come to Woody’s during severe weather events.
Woody’s has never been hit by a tornado but some of its neighbors have, and Bedford and Rowe have witnessed a number of close calls.
The cellar isn't exactly home sweet home- just ask the spiders.
They, along with the residents, will most likely live through a storm to tell you about this place.
Todd says residents can bring their pets into the shelter, and the women we talked to say people really do- usually in carriers.
They bring radios too to keep tabs on the weather.