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
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
Sir Redmond was not weather-wise—he was too much in love with her—and he did not possess a cyclone cellar; he therefore suffered much at the hands of Beatrice.
From Her Prairie Knight by Bower, B. M.
A cyclone cellar served as a storeroom for the sacked corn.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy
