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Actual facts needed about storm shelters being sucked out of the ground/doors failing
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2202078" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>High water tables and high clay content in the soil in many parts of the state causes them to fail eventually. My grandparents' cellar usually had 12" of standing water, regardless of the time of year. When the house burned down in the early '80s, they filled in the old cellar and didn't build one under the new house. </p><p></p><p>There are underground mechanical rooms at OU that require working sump pumps because they'll flood otherwise--there's what has been best described as an "underground river" running under campus. One of the OU electricians told me about having to throw a breaker in one of those rooms when the pump failed; it housed the motor for the elevator's hydraulic pump, and you had to climb down a ladder to get to the "floor" of the sump (I've been in that particular room before, back when I was a student worker; IIRC, the sump is about 6' long by 10' wide and 3' deep). The motor was mounted at the level of the door, and by the time he got there the groundwater was so high that the flywheel on the motor was throwing roostertails...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2202078, member: 26737"] High water tables and high clay content in the soil in many parts of the state causes them to fail eventually. My grandparents' cellar usually had 12" of standing water, regardless of the time of year. When the house burned down in the early '80s, they filled in the old cellar and didn't build one under the new house. There are underground mechanical rooms at OU that require working sump pumps because they'll flood otherwise--there's what has been best described as an "underground river" running under campus. One of the OU electricians told me about having to throw a breaker in one of those rooms when the pump failed; it housed the motor for the elevator's hydraulic pump, and you had to climb down a ladder to get to the "floor" of the sump (I've been in that particular room before, back when I was a student worker; IIRC, the sump is about 6' long by 10' wide and 3' deep). The motor was mounted at the level of the door, and by the time he got there the groundwater was so high that the flywheel on the motor was throwing roostertails... [/QUOTE]
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