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Weather spinoff: How many of you have a storm shelter or safe room?
Posted on 2/22/16 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 2/22/16 at 4:53 pm
High water tables preclude the former in most places around here, but you can get the latter installed.
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Posted on 2/22/16 at 4:56 pm to Jim Rockford
I'm in Alabama, but we have a 6x12 room that is completely made from reinforced cinder blocks, and it has a rebar/concrete roof that is under our front porch. It will leak a little in a bad storm, but it is 3 sides underground, and the only opening is a small door into our garage/basement. I can get in there with the entire family and shut the door and feel pretty safe.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 4:58 pm to Jim Rockford
What are you, with the NSA?
Posted on 2/22/16 at 4:59 pm to TU Rob
quote:
we have a 6x12 room that is completely made from reinforced cinder blocks, and it has a rebar/concrete roof that is under our front porch
Does it lock from the inside or the outside?
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:07 pm to Jim Rockford
I'm wedged between a major fault line and an active volcano. If shite goes south a safe room isn't going to help me. 
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:09 pm to Jim Rockford
I have a storage area under the stairs in my house that is located very near to the middle of the structure. I've never gone in there in bad weather but it's what I would use if things got really rough.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:09 pm to northshorebamaman
At least the volcano will perfectly preserve your body for later study. 
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:10 pm to Jim Rockford
I like the idea
just no room for it.
on a slab @ 675 sq-ft
just no room for it.
on a slab @ 675 sq-ft
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:11 pm to PsychTiger
quote:
At least the volcano will perfectly preserve your body for later study.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:12 pm to northshorebamaman
I excel at pointing out the upside of almost any situation.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:16 pm to PsychTiger
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:20 pm to Jim Rockford
If I was to build a custom house I would probably design an interior room (pantry, master closet maybe) with reinforced block walls and a concrete ceiling.
Currently if a tornado was imminent the unreinforced master closet would have to work.
Currently if a tornado was imminent the unreinforced master closet would have to work.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:26 pm to Jim Rockford
There is a bathroom right in the center of my house that my roommate says is in between the highest concentration of support beams.
I've got a big piece of particle board in the back of my closet that fits exactly over the bathtub and has a cabinet handle in the center of it so I can pull it in place. My luck - I'll get my arm ripped off or turn into a helicopter.
I've had a couple tornadoes come within a half mile of my house the last few years so I'm probably overthinking the situation but I don't care.
I've got a big piece of particle board in the back of my closet that fits exactly over the bathtub and has a cabinet handle in the center of it so I can pull it in place. My luck - I'll get my arm ripped off or turn into a helicopter.
I've had a couple tornadoes come within a half mile of my house the last few years so I'm probably overthinking the situation but I don't care.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:28 pm to Jim Rockford
Tornado room/safe room.
Equipped with firearms, ammo, rations, and a bucket.
Equipped with firearms, ammo, rations, and a bucket.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:29 pm to yurintroubl
quote:
I'm probably overthinking the situation
You aren't.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:31 pm to yurintroubl
Building a new house, didn't put one in. Way I see it, if I get one I'm screwed, and I'm old. Kids will have the insurance money.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:32 pm to northshorebamaman
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I'm wedged between a major fault line and an active volcano
I feel like some that shite oughta been disclosed before the sale.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:35 pm to Jim Rockford
When I was stationed in Lawton/Fort Sill Oklahoma the house I had built had a tornado shelter dug in the back yard. Nothing fancy but it would have worked. Don't have much here other than a structurally safe house that would be ok vs most hurricanes (we're North of Covington, btw)... A tornado would hurt.
Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:43 pm to VetteGuy
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I feel like some that shite oughta been disclosed before the sale.
The worst case scenario estimates are around 10,000 dead. I figure that's pretty good odds in a metro of four million. And if it takes out Seattle then I'm sitting on prime real estate. I rent though so FML.Posted on 2/22/16 at 5:44 pm to LucasP
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Does it lock from the inside or the outside?
Doesn't lock at all. Has a closer door on it.
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