LOW BUDGET! At first we're talking cover with soil, grass over it, shelving, eventually some 2x4 bunkbeds. It will earn its keep mostly as a cellar. It doesn't have to be hotel quality to be functional. Folding chairs, wind up radio, battery lights...it will still be a safe hidey hole.We have some storms but its not like being in, say, Oklahoma or Kansas. We won't be in there every week.

I can take a pic later today. It can't go underground because of the high water table here. Plus I'm claustrophobic and the thought of being underground freaks me out... probably have a heart attack just thinking about water seeping in and us being trapped in there.... (shudder)