"mostly all of Pilger’s 350 residents evacuated their homes in advance of the storm."

I can understand people evacuating businesses or the church. Did people really leave their homes? Do they have basements and storm shelters? Where did they go? In Minnesota, we just go downstairs to the protected corner and hang out until the all clear.

We were in the church once when a tornado was pending. I considered seeing how many teenagers one could stuff in a janitor's closet. Will they build a shelter into the new church?