Monday I was finally able to identify a 10' x 20' Sheet of metal roofing that landed in my backyard in our4/16 twister I knew from the size that it had to be commercial, Turns out it was from the roof of our Lowes Hardware store which WAS 5.2 miles from here as the crow flies. More compact items like a car was found 1/4 of a mile from where it was parked.Denim Deb said:
Storm shelter
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And, if I'm not mistaken, the Sanford tornado was "only" an EF3; imagine what an EF5 would do! (look at Joplin, MO) 
I was lead to believe that concrete block construction is a little cheaper than pouring walls.
Having lived through a number of storm scares (in MN) I've decided I need a panic room (storm shelter) that is part of the house. If your shelter is far from the house or not comfortable, you will avoid using it. Several times we have had serious wind storms and tornado risk that required us to overnight in the basement, so it must be habitable. Maybe have a second exit, in case the house collapses.
Having lived through a number of storm scares (in MN) I've decided I need a panic room (storm shelter) that is part of the house. If your shelter is far from the house or not comfortable, you will avoid using it. Several times we have had serious wind storms and tornado risk that required us to overnight in the basement, so it must be habitable. Maybe have a second exit, in case the house collapses.
Right it was a EF3. Though my place was fairly undamaged it took 2 guys with a chain saw to cut enough brush to let me out (darn storm doors always open out). But they got all of the meat from my freezer since they had a generator and one look told me it would rot before I ever got power back. In return they fed me hot meals until the power was restored, so it worked out for all of us.i_am2bz said:And, if I'm not mistaken, the Sanford tornado was "only" an EF3; imagine what an EF5 would do! (look at Joplin, MO)
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curly_kate
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This is our ultimate plan, but we aren't building our house until next year. So we're looking for something fairly inexpensive & fairly simple to construct to get us through. Thanks for all the ideas, folks! DH has been lurking, keeping an eye on the thread, too.k15n1 said:
K15n1....having a 2nd exit a good idea. maybe a tunnel with a hatch type escape door a couple ft above ground level.Maybe have it about twenty ft. or so from the main entrance.If ones blocked, hopefully you can get out of the other exit..!
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not sure if anyone said this, but some people bury the large ship stacking cargo boxes with a few feet around the out side to reduce the chances of a collase from the box or an earthquake, there are tons of videos on utube.....
it saves in some areas , but dont know how safe they are or if they would survive a tornado sucking on the ground that houses your cargo shelter. they do seem very solid.im sure there are ways to properly ground them to the earth so they dont get sucked up lol.
what u guys think?
it would be very cool to have one of those abandoned missle silos as a bunker lol. some are soo awesome and deep, you could have soo much fun lol..
i heard that some of the deep bunkers are for the rich only incase of some type of serious event in the future.......
it saves in some areas , but dont know how safe they are or if they would survive a tornado sucking on the ground that houses your cargo shelter. they do seem very solid.im sure there are ways to properly ground them to the earth so they dont get sucked up lol.
what u guys think?
it would be very cool to have one of those abandoned missle silos as a bunker lol. some are soo awesome and deep, you could have soo much fun lol..
i heard that some of the deep bunkers are for the rich only incase of some type of serious event in the future.......
Rebbetzin
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My husband was looking over my shoulder on this one. He said you better bury the van on a hill, or it will be full of water.Wannabefree said:Got a cave on the property?I dunno a "economical" way to build one really...I'm just going to bury an old van or something with the back doors sticking out for the entrance
Lol...~gd....such a silly goose.. didn't you see all the concrete/brick buidings in the Joplin and north alabama tornado's that were trashed...? Thats why a concrete/rock,whatever shelter is built into the side of a hill or underground.It's because a direct hit can destroy an above ground storm shelter, even built of cement or rocks...
didn't you see all the concrete/brick buidings in the Joplin and north alabama tornado's that were trashed...? Thats why a concrete/rock,whatever shelter is built into the side of a hill or underground.It's because a direct hit can destroy an above ground storm shelter, even built of cement or rocks...
