Ann Bledsoe
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Running Arrow Bill":tli2tse4 said:We don't have shelter either. EXtremely expensive for slight probability of one getting to your specific place. Also, any shelters need to be water and varmit tight...and, what if something huge lands on top of your entrance door and you have no phone down there that will work and there you are! Buried alive! ... Until someone just happens to discover you are missing... duh...
Then it's not built right -- a storm shelter door should NEVER be on top of the shelter and should NEVER open outward, they should always open INWARD from the SIDE of the shelter. If doors open inward, you'll never have a problem that a chainsaw won't fix -- and your chainsaw should be in the shelter with you, along with your generator, extra fuel, batteries, water, and emergency food supplies. We're even considering having a solar cell to supply electricity until power comes back online.
As for phones -- to heck with cell phones in a situation like that, the towers would be down/out of service anyway. Doesn't anyone remember 2-way/CB radios? In a "state of emergency" radios are much more reliable.
People in hurricane-prone areas can't say that there's only a "slight probability" that they'll need one -- it's a forgone conclusion that they'll need one eventually. Maybe not every week during certain times of the year, but often enough to make it well worth the money.
PLUS, a well-built storm shelter DOES increase the value of a piece of property.
Anyone seen "Panic Room"?
A bullet-proof "panic room" like the one portrayed in that movie costs approximately $10,000 to have built, can be built above ground, inside or outside the main dwelling, and it will withstand practically anything, from high-powered bullets, to flying debris, to a large vehicle being dropped on top of it. We've all seen the demonstrations showing a flying 2x4 piecing a concrete wall -- that flying 2x4 bounces off of the walls of a "panic room".
Ann B