MORGAN COUNTY, Ga. (WXIA) – Three years ago this month, a tornado damaged a mobile home in Morgan County. Now, officials there have come up with a way to protect their citizens.

On Tuesday, officials cut a ribbon on two new tornado shelters that were paid for with a FEMA grant.

The shelters are made of a quarter-inch of steel and are bolted and welded onto a concrete pad. They weigh 300,000 pounds and can hold 200 people.

The shelters are the first of their kind in the state of Georgia.

Winter, at least feels like it is coming to an end, but not before causing some major disruptions in the southern parts of the country, and setting record-breaking expenses for the Midwest and Northeast.

The snowy and bitter cold winter has broken seasonal maintenance expenditure records in many spots like Ohio, where they used a record breaking million tons of salts. 630,000 tons are stocked annually for an average winter in Ohio, but this year an additional 510,000 tons were use.

Even here in Atlanta, and other cities in the southeast, had to spend extra funds on salt and sand for the roads. While Northern states budget for winter weather, places like South Carolina does not, because expenses vary from year to year. Here’s a breakdown of how South Carolina had to treat their roads:

High temperatures remain well above normal in the upper 60s. We will have a mix of sun and clouds as a weak front moves through, and a little breezy at times from the NW around 10mph, gusting up to 15mph.

Sunday night will be partly cloudy with overnight low temperatures in the mid 40s with light winds.

Mostly sunny for Monday with even warmer high temperatures in the low 70s.