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<blockquote data-quote="Wheel Gun" data-source="post: 2436049" data-attributes="member: 19286"><p>Welcome to the biggest debate in Oklahoma! "What's the best storm shelter?" It's the ultimate conversation starter. <img src="/images/smilies/thumb.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumb:" title="Thumb :thumb:" data-shortname=":thumb:" /></p><p></p><p>We have an outdoor/inground and wouldn't have it any other way. It won't rust, I don't have to move the car, and it would be very hard for our house to collapse on top of it.</p><p></p><p>I, too, worried about running through the yard to get to it in a storm. Hail usually precedes a twister. But, IMHO, the benefits outweigh the danger of the "hail run". By my backdoor, we have a weather radio, an emergency light and a heavy umbrella. (At a golf store once, I found a huge umbrella that's extremely tough.) When the weather people start pointing at dark clouds in the west, I go unlock the shelter. When the evil thing is thirty minutes or so away, there's usually a meeting in our cul-de-sac of all our neighbors. We have six houses and three shelters, so we decide who is going where. </p><p></p><p>We've never had to dive into the thing yet, but we came very close last year. Matter of fact, a TV helicopter was hovering over our house filming a good sized twister coming right at us. Just before it got here, if lifted off the ground and then sat back down behind us with no damage to us at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wheel Gun, post: 2436049, member: 19286"] Welcome to the biggest debate in Oklahoma! "What's the best storm shelter?" It's the ultimate conversation starter. :thumb: We have an outdoor/inground and wouldn't have it any other way. It won't rust, I don't have to move the car, and it would be very hard for our house to collapse on top of it. I, too, worried about running through the yard to get to it in a storm. Hail usually precedes a twister. But, IMHO, the benefits outweigh the danger of the "hail run". By my backdoor, we have a weather radio, an emergency light and a heavy umbrella. (At a golf store once, I found a huge umbrella that's extremely tough.) When the weather people start pointing at dark clouds in the west, I go unlock the shelter. When the evil thing is thirty minutes or so away, there's usually a meeting in our cul-de-sac of all our neighbors. We have six houses and three shelters, so we decide who is going where. We've never had to dive into the thing yet, but we came very close last year. Matter of fact, a TV helicopter was hovering over our house filming a good sized twister coming right at us. Just before it got here, if lifted off the ground and then sat back down behind us with no damage to us at all. [/QUOTE]
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