Thats a bunch of bull 99 precent of tornados are not F-5 and im a BLUE BLOOD REPUBLICAN so go piss up a rope
Hey fella. Republicans are red. Not dirty blue. Illegal aliens, baseball bats, sporting injuries, household tools, automobiles, murders, doctors, heart disease, cancer, even the evil Covid single handedly far out kill more than all tornadoes on a yearly basis. Maybe you didn’t catch what I said. On average only 150 die yearly from tornadoes.
Selling tornado sellers is the biggest scare tactic in the US. The odds of dying by a tornado are almost up there with winning the Powerball or mega millions. Dying by a tornado in Oklahoma doesn’t scare me. I’ve seen a least one of the F5s. Back in 2013 it was fairly close to my house as I watched it out my back door in the yard.
Anything helps, sounds like we have to do something to do something, mantra. Either buy a good inground shelter or play the dice like me. Odds are in our favor. Better than any casino in the state.
BLAH BLAH BLAH weak argument for trying to keep someone for making their family safer.
The Pontiac was traveling 40mph.
After seeing debris around our house from the EF5 tornado in 2011, that doesn't impress me.
There was an engine/transmission unit sitting by itself in the field behind our house (along with other car and truck parts) that had been ripped from a car that was no where to be found.
That 500lb unit was skipping or flying around at 250+ mph.
I'd like to see these above ground rooms tested with a demolition ball hanging from a crane and see how they hold up.
Can you (bo and Seadog) both agree that shelters, covid vaccines, and wiping properly are personal choices that everyone is free to make? Sellers are going to sell, people are going to buy. Nothing you can do about that regardless of your politics. Though I did think the rope was funny. I'm going to clean that one up and use it now. 
True many many many have survived in above ground shelters nuf said .Can you (bo and Seadog) both agree that shelters, covid vaccines, and wiping properly are personal choices that everyone is free to make? Sellers are going to sell, people are going to buy. Nothing you can do about that regardless of your politics. Though I did think the rope was funny. I'm going to clean that one up and use it now.
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I stood on my driveway in '99 and watched that damned monster travel from west to east, on a line about a half mile south of my house. Eerie to see something that big, but it just moved slowly past us, and a "cloud" of debris at its base sort of "floated" along with it... looked like a movie's computer-generated special effects.
20 seconds later, wifey angrily said, "We WILL have a storm shelter installed immediately" followed by a threatening but chillingly quiet, "Won't we???" At that point, I suddenly remembered the efficacy of "Yes, dear."
Mine is lockable and 'can' serve as a 'temporary' overflow area to the gun safe.
Also, I think the best advice my Dad gave me was that sometimes it's just best to grin and nod in the affirmative.
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I have an above ground shelter in my shop building. One important thing is make sure that the metal shelter is properly grounded. This will give you some protection if a power line falls on it. I am also using mine as a HAM shack for my radios. I also have a TV in the shop and one in the shelter that I also use as a second monitor for the computer there. It does also help that the shop is solar powered so everything works when power goes out as long as the building is still standing.
If the shelter is above ground, be sure to have ear protection stashed inside the shelter.
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