[BC] Safe rooms in houses

[Mike McCarthy]

Something as simple as a 48" catch basin will work for this at a 
transmitter site.  Simple and cheap.

But I know...if management only want to install a simple tin skin shelter, 
good luck getting them spring for a $500 chunk of concrete to he hauled out 
to remote site.

MM

At 07:26 PM 3/20/2007 -0400, DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote
>In a message dated 3/20/2007 3:42:44 PM Central Daylight Time,
>wbzq1300 at verizon.net writes:
>
>On "Extreme Makover - Home Edition" last night, they showed a steel
> > box to
> > protect the family from tornados, but I thought -- that's great, but
> > how are
> > they going to get any radio or TV reception in there?  Did they run a
> > cable
> > to the outside world?
>
>Several areas in the SOuth in new developments are building "Safe Rooms".  In
>a development near my home they actually have a safe room 20 x 20 with a 8
>inch reinforced concrete ceiling, which is their garage floor. The walls are
>reinforced concrete blocks below grade exterior, filled with concrete and
>concrete block on the basement side filled with concrete.  The room has 
>two steel
>doors one opening inward the other outward into the basement. It also has
>ventilation pipes to the outside.  It is design the support the entire two 
>story
>house collapsed on top of it.
>
>You can also find design print of how to make one in a basement or corder of
>a garage on the NOAA web site in the tornado area.
>
>In my travels on the hiways and byways of the South,  I need to start
>photographyng the old storm cellars I see regularly.   Also there are some 
>new ones
>being built.  Here in Alabama when ever a tirnado forms, it immeditely 
>zeros in
>on the closest trailer park.  Masny trailer owners have one of the round
>concrete below ground shelters right outside their front steps.  Also I 
>note an ad
>at a home show for a company that specialized in installing these concrete
>bunkers below trailers.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>
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