Take a look at the photo below and you'll see that there's no better
place to be during severe weather.
On April 19, 1996, an F-3 tornado hit an Urbana, Illinois, neighborhood.
The house you see in the photo above was the only two-story house in the
addition, making it particularly vulnerable to high winds and tornadoes.
However, it was also the only PolySteel home in the neighborhood and, as
a result, the only home left standing. The houses on both sides of this
home were completely leveled.
Notice the indentations in the walls. These were left by the flying debris that is most often the cause of injury and loss of lives during a tornado. The debris was stopped cold by the exceptionally strong PolySteel walls, protecting anyone who happened to be inside.
Nationwide, two PolySteel structures have been directly hit by
tornadoes. And while they lost their roofs, windows, and bricks, the walls
were determined by engineers to be sound and the structures were rebuilt
using the original PolySteel walls.
