The Concrete Room Beneath the Oklahoma Grass

On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, with winds topping 210 miles per hour. It leveled schools, shredded homes to their foundations, and left a scar across the earth seventeen miles long. But scattered throughout that devastation, families emerged from underground storm shelters — shaken, dust-covered, but alive. Those shelters weren't built during the tornado. They were poured in concrete on quiet Saturday mornings, bolted into the earth when the sky was blue and the forecast was clear.…