Tornado Shelters- Flat Safe, Ground Zero or Taylors??

[KOPBET]

Are you always so acerbic?

What 120 acres was referring to is the advice that many shelter companies give to park your vehicle over the shelter so that it keeps debris from falling directly on the sliding door.
The vehicle provides a support to elevate rafters, ceiling joists, and the like off the floor.
Now, if some of that debris was to puncture the fuel tank it would be directly above your head.

My solution is to park a vehicle directly beside the shelter.
That way I still get most of the benefit of a raised support structure but the leaking gasoline would run around the shelter door.

Here are some pics of my ground zero install last Fall.

Yep.

And that car parked beside the shelter isn't going to move - almost as likely as a gas tank being ruptured by falling house timbers.

 

[Shadowrider]

Yep.

And that car parked beside the shelter isn't going to move - almost as likely as a gas tank being ruptured by falling house timbers.

There were like 12 cars and pickups on top of and inside of what was the Moore hospital. Don't think for a second the car won't move.

 

[KOPBET]

There were like 12 cars and pickups on top of and inside of what was the Moore hospital. Don't think for a second the car won't move.

That was the point... Thanks for making it.

 

[Hobbes]

Yep.

And that car parked beside the shelter isn't going to move - almost as likely as a gas tank being ruptured by falling house timbers.

It might. It might not.

Have you ever ridden a tornado out while it tore your house apart?
I have.

The car and PU in the garage had the ceiling come down on them and the windows were blown out but they were where I left them parked and one of them was drivable.
That PU is what I drove away in, after I cleared the twisted remains of the garage door away.

Of course, that was only an F4.
If it was an F5 the slab would have been swept clean and it's a moot point.

 

[Stephen]

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This is the kind of lip I want.

 

[COZICAN]

My lid track can be disassembled with one wrench then it should move easily with a come-along. In a garage you're not so likely to have "tons" of debris on top of you. If you do I hope you've told all of your neighbors that you have the shelter. Just about everyone on my street has had them installed and know to check on each other should disaster strike. I too can't fathom being down there for too long but there is plenty of room provided it's just my wife and I.

 

[KOPBET]

It might. It might not.

Exactly.

 

[Hobbes]

Exactly.

Well if it is blown away in a F5 there's no harm or foul.
If it is not blown away it might have a rafters or ceiling joists on it.

I don't see the downside to it.
I'm not an expert like you though.

 

[Hobbes]

This is the kind of lip I want.

That's the ground zero install.
They leave the top of the shelter elevated above the floor about and inch and taper the concrete around it down to floor level.

 

[KOPBET]

Well if it is blown away in a F5 there's no harm or foul.
If it is not blown away it might have a rafters or ceiling joists on it.

I don't see the downside to it.
I'm not an expert like you though.

Good.

Are you through throwing around personal insults now?