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My grandmother's storm house long ago grew cracks and weeds.
At first, her family had no storm house.
"We used to envy the Baileys their storm house".
After a while, the family avoided the inside of the storm house, she says, because of the possibility of snakes.
"Every time it thundered, Daddy would jump up and say, 'Let's go to the storm house!' " my mom told me.
People in some parts of the country call a storm shelter a "tornado house" or a "storm cellar," but in northeast Mississippi, where I grew up, we called it a storm house.
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