The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has provided over $150 million in aid to Hurricane Ian survivors in Florida.

 There are 30 tornado shelters all along the Kansas Turnpike. 

A NIST report about its investigation into the 2011 Joplin tornado calls for nationally accepted standards for building design and construction, and public shelters and emergency communications to reduce deaths caused by tornadoes.

A fight to build more storm shelters in schools heads to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Stronger building codes, more storm shelters and improved emergency communication systems could have significantly reduced the death toll and the costs of rebuilding from the 2011 Joplin tornado.

Recent tornadoes in Oklahoma and Texas have sparked interest in storm shelters across the Midwest.