New Tennessee Tornado Shelter to Double as High School Gym

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Rather than renovating an old gymnasium, a Tennessee school district is constructing a new one in a dome that will also serve as a tornado shelter.

According to WAAY31, an ABC affiliate out of Huntsville, Ala., Fayetteville High School’s new gymnasium began with a $5 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The 75/25 grant includes the Fayetteville district putting $1.25 million toward the tornado shelter dome, which will be the first of its kind in Tennessee. Similar domes in Mississippi have seen about an 18-month construction process.

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