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Home Depot testing pre-built storm rooms
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| September 1 2006: 2:08 PM EDT
| Parija B. Kavilanz
Posted on 09/01/2006 1:12:50 PM PDT by beltfed308
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To: Jack Black
When I was a kid in Kansas, we had a burried railroad tank car for a shelter. Of course it was for nukes as well as tornados. We lived on an acre or two just accross from a rail yard. Us kids pretended it was a submarine.
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posted on
09/01/2006 2:26:00 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Do moderate muslims luv us infidels and Jews?.... Didn't think so.)
To: beltfed308
What a joke. 32 square feet huh? Lay a sheet of plywood on the ground and you'll see how small that is. Kevlar is strong yet lightweight and unless that sucker is bolted down with some serious concrete anchors or lag bolts, you are going for a ride of a life time!
To: elfman2
Can it provide protection against the neighbor’s house traveling up to 250 miles an hour? Yea, how's it work with Tornadoes? Tornadoes that can make a piece of straw pierce a fence post.
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posted on
09/01/2006 2:47:28 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(If American "cowboy diplomacy" did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.)
To: 1rudeboy
Why don't people have an underground shelter like the one in Wizard of Oz?It depends on the water table level where you live. My grandmother had a dry basement in her house in northern Oklahoma..right next to Kansas. My brother had a house in Duncan Oklahoma (SW) with a "fraidy hole" under the front porch. It was dry when he bought the house. It was an indoor swimming pool when it rained.
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posted on
09/01/2006 2:48:05 PM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: 1rudeboy
Why don't people have an underground shelter like the one in Wizard of Oz? I'm mystified. Well like that movie would have been a real bore if Dorothy had been in the shelter. :)
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posted on
09/01/2006 3:13:01 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: beltfed308
Put em in groups in Alabama for tornado decoys
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posted on
09/01/2006 3:16:34 PM PDT
by
freedomlover
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
The test included loading a telephone utility poles into a special cannon and
fire them at the built concrete containment domes.
I believe a "Modern Miracles" episode on "Bricks" on the History Channel
showed that sort of device used to test housing materials, as in repelling
flying boards in a tornado.
The board went through 2 different conventional sidings
(and landed about 10 feet beyond)...
but when a board was fired at a brick wall it bounced off like it had
hit reactive armor on an M1A Abrams.
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posted on
09/01/2006 3:28:03 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: elfman2
I thought I’d push my two young boys in the direction of being Victoria Secrets photographers, but now I’m torn.Of the guy who fires chickens at airplane canopies out of a cannon!
Mark
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posted on
09/01/2006 3:37:58 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Nailbiter
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posted on
09/01/2006 5:04:29 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(Bush Iraq Truth WMD http://freedomkeys.com/whyiraq.htm)
To: IncPen
where's the motor, to get me back to shore
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