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Making A Tornado-Proof House

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Making a tornado-proof house takes lots of hard work and perseverance. There are many materials you would need to build a tornado-proof house. One of the most imperative materials is a strong steel base. Steel is one of the strongest materials on earth, so it is perfect for building strong, tornado-proof houses. Our building is tornado-proof because it is made completely out of steel (with warm cotton on the inside for insulation.) Another reason it is tornado-proof is that it is low to the ground, has a basement, and it is a half-sphere. It is important for it to be half-sphere shaped because instead of the tornado blowing it over it would the tornado would just slide off the strong steel house.
We constructed are building, so that it was

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