cyclone cellar
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They found uncivic his Tornado, showing Kansans scuttling into a cyclone cellar as a giant cornucopia of wind marches across the darkened prairie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Putting his family safely away into a cyclone cellar he stood at the cellar door, watched.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sniffles, the barber, jumped quickly into his armor-plated working clothes, and Mike, with a sad smile of farewell, crawled into the cyclone cellar and closed the steel doors.
From The Silly Syclopedia by Lott, Noah [pseud.]
I had heard of Kansas cyclones, had been shown a "cyclone cellar," and only the day before had taken dinner in a house of which one end had been blown clean off by a cyclone.
From The Story of Chautauqua by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
A cyclone cellar served as a storeroom for the sacked corn.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy
