leenia -

In Wichita, and in Sedgwick County where it's located, all "trailer parks" are required to have a storm shelter. Unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be located where everyone can get to it as quickly as necessary or that the person in a wheel chair will be able to get down the typical stairway into the usual kind that's essentially a hole in the ground.

Several of the nearby towns/counties also have ordinances with similar requirements.

It's common understanding here that "tornados love trailer parks" since they always go there first when the hit town.

At one extreme, there are no similar requirements for "RV parks" and I know of only one of the dozen or so nearby that has a "tornado shelter."

At the opposite extreme, the City of Wichita has no public tornado shelters.

It's only within the last few years that there have been a very few schools where they've actually built shelters, or reinforced existing structures to make "safe rooms," although most of the schools are substantial enough to have "relatively safe" areas where they can herd the kids in. The school situation is a little iffy at a couple of schools where 20% - 30% of the kids are in "temporary classrooms" that resemble an empty trailer home with the inside walls removed.

A new move has been to provide "shelters" at fairly regular intervals along the turnpike in the area. These consist of the "sewer pipes" that allow water to get across the road, where they've added substantial doors on (some of) them and put up a sign.

John