[finnman69]

Doen't do much for you if you are under 10' of water however. Not a good idea in general to encourage riding out hurricanes. This makes more sense for tornado shelters.

[softwarecreator]

This makes more sense for tornado shelters

Or for us married guys ... for those times when the little woman is ... shall we say ... being visited by her little friend?

[dead]

I would like to buy one of these round and padded inside, so I could try to ride a tornado.

[dead]

The author's an idiot who felt the need to shoehorn the recent hurricane prediction into the story of a product that is clearly designed for tornado alley.

[umgud]

When I was a kid growing up in KS, we lived at a house accross from the railyards. Somebody had buried a railroad tank car in our backyard for a storm or bomb shelter. Of course, for a kid, this was a submarine.

[GrandEagle]

Not a good idea in general to encourage riding out hurricanes.
Actually I've ridden out many of them. It is not a good idea if you are on the barrier islands, or in low areas.
The problem with NOT riding them out is that if there is damage, the Guard is usually called out and you can't get back in to your home. By the time you do get back in, the crooks have made off with your stuff.
You have to remember, once an evacuation is ordered, there is NO law enforcement anywhere - only crooks.
We did leave with Ivan but returned home just as the backside was leaving. If you can get back early, then you can beat the Guard there.
I live about 12 miles from the water and am about 50 feet above sea level.

Cordially,
GE

[HeadOn]

My folks just talked to a rep and ordered one of these to be installed in their garage. Not a bad setup, really. You can order with all sorts of amenities inside, so if the weather service says "tornado", you can be quite comfortable sitting in there for several hours. There are several more sizes in the catalog my Mom showed me this weekend.

If we build another house, I'm considering putting one of these in myself. Tennessee ain't Oklahoma, but we get our share of "watches" and "warnings", fer dang sure.

[KarlInOhio]

Can I get some fins and a GPS installed on it so if it breaks loose it can land on Hillary?

[TomGuy]

Testing Information

In a series of tests conducted by an independent lab, the engineered panels built into the DuPont StormRoom™ with Kevlar® were able to deflect a 12-foot, 15-pound two-by-four piece of wood shot out of a cannon at 100 miles per hour. This represents the speed that a 250 miles per hour wind during a tornado would propel the timber. View some of the testing conducted at Texas Tech.

[Tijeras_Slim]

With a strong steel door it would make a nifty gun safe.

[sgtbono2002]

I would think a rebar reinforced concrete room would be just as safe and cost half as much.

[peggybac]

I live in Kansas and we have a great feature in the homes here. It is a room underground with access from either inside your house or from outside. It's called a basement!

[ASOC]

Don't forget storm beds

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4490864.html

And you can make it yourself - if you have a welder, sheet steel, etc, etc......

[Centurion2000]

Now all you need is to tile the inside of it and put in a steam generator and you've got the perfect home steamroom.

[wolfcreek]

There was a F-5 tornado in Jarrell,TX. a few years back, that took, not only the houses but, the foundations also. Seems to me these shelters better be connected to bedrock and even then, you might go for one hell of a ride.

[Spiff]

Um...do they float?

[Zetman]

Why don't they just build the entire house out of this stuff?? That way, most of the world's worries about huricanes and tornado's would become a thing of the past!!

:)

[El Gato]

This would be especially nice in Texas, Oklahoma, and anywhere else that has Tornadoes, but where basements are few and far between. Even if you had a basement, a storm room would be good, but you could just get away with some reinforcing of a corner room in the basement, or better yet as in the house of an old friend, put it under the garage slab. (Given when the house was built, I've no doubt that room was to do triple duty, as tornado, bomb and fallout shelter. Today, with a little more work on the air supply it would also serve for CBW attack shelter.

I wonder how the cost of one of these would compare to just making the walls and ceiling of a basement room of reinforced concrete?

[SuzyQue]

I think this is an excellent idea. A padded room with racks of wine. Add a few good books, and it couldn't get much better.

[SWake]

http://www.keepsaferooms.com/

I have one of these (the 48 x 72 model) in my garage. I assembled it in a weekend with the help of a teenage nephew. Build a little shelf/seat/storage compartment, keep a radio with some batteries inside, and you can ride out just about anything likely to hit Ft. Worth.

Cost about $2,000, if I remember correctly.

At the farm, however, I still depend on a good, deep hole in the ground.