Thread: Safe rooms

Originally Posted by feeshrman

Yep, I would've gladly signed a blank check for one on April 28th.

After what y'all went through, toilet paper would've been nice. I would've soiled myself on that one!!!! Woulda scared the crap outta me!!! You guys were LUCKY!!!!! God showed you mercy that day.

Yall have seen pics and heard the story but a few of us have stood where Feesh and Mrs Feesh were when the storm hit, I was in awe as I stood where their house used to be and Feesh described the event to me on the phone. I can not imagine what that day was like for them, they were and are truly blessed. I urge anyone who is doing any major construction to a home to include a storm shelter or safe room to the plans, just makes sense.

I need one at the lake.

I like it. Put a stack on it and a fire box and it could double as a smoke house. Let me know how many back straps it'll hold.

Wannabe...

My wife would find a way to fill it full of junk in a month.

A couple that are friends of my family went thru Hurricane Andrew in Miami. They had already kissed each other goodbye as their house was being ripped apart and they were in an interior closet. When it was over, all that was left was that closet of their 5000 square foot home. They moved here to west KY the day they got their insurance settlement.

They bought a nice home on a watershed lake but it didn't have a storm shelter. They hired a contractor to come in and jackhammer up the garage floor and install a bunker shelter and pour concrete back on top. It has a trap door entrance from the top with a security door that looks like something out of a submarine.

Lots of folks thought it was an expensive boondoggle till we had a couple of close hit tornadoes. Now they look like the smartest couple in the neighborhood.

Here is some info Chris on the door. That one dosnt show a dead bolt. This is what FEMA recommends. I also watched a documentary year or so ago made at the University of Oklahoma in conjunction with Texas A/M . They definatley recommend 3 to 5 deadbolts along with 3 or more hinges on the door. They were shooting 2x4's into the different doors at 100 mph to show what could happen. The doors with one dead bolt when hit at top or bottom would bend and allow debris to enter room. Heard a report of a lady that lost her life over in Ark. During their storm because of that.

http://www.fema.gov/media-library-da....5x11_door.pdf

Thanks Cray, this one does have 3 3/4"cold rolled steel dead bolts.

If I was going to build a new house that would be the first thing to get built.