Our Goal

The Oklahoma Weather Safe Initiative is to create permanent, life-saving shelter networks that protect Oklahomans—starting with those most at risk, our children. To launch this mission, we are working to raise $100 million in public and private funding. This investment will allow us to build shelters at the first 15 high-risk public schools across the state, providing immediate protection for thousands of children, and simultaneously begin Phase II: deploying shelters to apartment complexes and mobile home parks where shelter access is critically lacking. It is important to begin Phase II as soon as possible to start creating revenue for the company. This will assist in offsetting State and Federal funding allowing OWS to become established. Building shelters for the schools will always and continue to be the priority of this company until all schools in Oklahoma have one. This initiative isn’t just about buildings—it’s about restoring peace of mind, preventing tragedy, and building a safer, stronger Oklahoma for generations to come.

Phase I Rollout Summary – Oklahoma Weather Safe Initiative

Objective:
Phase I of the Oklahoma Weather Safe Initiative focuses on constructing FEMA P-361 compliant storm shelters to high risk public school campuses across the state. This critical first step is designed to protect Oklahoma’s most vulnerable population, students and school staff. There is only one way to do this, by ensuring that every child has access to a structurally safe shelter during severe weather events. In times of severe weather children should be safer in schools then they are at home.

Key Goals of Phase I:

  • Install shelters at 15 high-risk schools identified through tornado path data and NOAA risk assessments.

  • Eliminate the need for students to shelter in hallways or bathrooms, replacing outdated protocols with hardened, engineered storm structures.

  • Ensure shelters are integrated into school layouts so students do not have to go outside to reach safety.

  • Provide training and shelter protocols to school staff and emergency responders in partnership with local agencies.

Phase II Rollout Summary – Oklahoma Weather Safe Initiative.

Phase II of the Oklahoma Weather Safe Initiative expands protection beyond schools to reach Oklahoma’s renters and high-density residential communities, including apartment complexes, mobile home parks, and new and existing housing developments. These populations are among the most vulnerable during severe weather events and currently lack reliable access to nearby, life-saving shelter.

Key Goals of Phase II:

  • Deploy community-accessible, centrally located shelters within apartment developments and mobile home parks across tornado-prone areas.

  • Prioritize low-income and high-density rental communities, where private shelters are financially or structurally unrealistic.

  • Enable shared shelter models to reduce cost burden on individual renters or property owners.

  • Integrate automated weather-triggered alerts and digital access tools to streamline shelter entry and tracking during events.

  • Begin early shelter inclusion in housing development plans, supported by proposed state tax incentives

Phase III Rollout Summary – Oklahoma Weather Safe Initiative

Key Goals of Phase III:
Phase III focuses on expanding shelter infrastructure into residential neighborhoods, new housing developments. This final rollout phase aims to ensure long-term statewide coverage, making storm shelters a standard feature of Oklahoma’s new community design, not a luxury or afterthought.

Key Goals of Phase III:

  • Partner with HOAs, developers, and local governments to install community-accessible shelters within residential neighborhoods.

  • Incorporate shelters into new housing developments as shared, centrally located assets—reducing the need for every home to install its own.

  • Promote adoption of model building codes that encourage shelter design in future construction developments.

  • Expand app-based public access systems to integrate real-time alerts and route navigation across the statewide shelter network.

  • Expand across state boundaries with Oklahoma leading the way in emergency Infrastructure.