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<blockquote data-quote="Seadog" data-source="post: 3694221" data-attributes="member: 9018"><p>I worked survey and remember looking inside a survey magazine back in 1999. I remember the pictures of the destruction from the 99 tornado. It didn’t just level houses. It removed slabs. Entire house slabs. Not all of them. But a portion. Personally I believe an old-school metal reinforced concrete storm cellar that is almost all the way under the ground stands a better chance just from the destruction that I’ve seen. I’ve seen the videos of people demonstrating how good their metal above ground storm shelters are. They demonstrate a potato gun shooting 2 x 4s at it and bouncing off. It’s supposed to represent small debris flying at 200 miles an hour. If they had a crane and were swinging an automobile into it and it held up well I might actually think differently. From my point of view I believe they’re only good for small tornadoes that are passing at a distance. I do not believe they would hold up to an F5 at all</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Seadog, post: 3694221, member: 9018"] I worked survey and remember looking inside a survey magazine back in 1999. I remember the pictures of the destruction from the 99 tornado. It didn’t just level houses. It removed slabs. Entire house slabs. Not all of them. But a portion. Personally I believe an old-school metal reinforced concrete storm cellar that is almost all the way under the ground stands a better chance just from the destruction that I’ve seen. I’ve seen the videos of people demonstrating how good their metal above ground storm shelters are. They demonstrate a potato gun shooting 2 x 4s at it and bouncing off. It’s supposed to represent small debris flying at 200 miles an hour. If they had a crane and were swinging an automobile into it and it held up well I might actually think differently. From my point of view I believe they’re only good for small tornadoes that are passing at a distance. I do not believe they would hold up to an F5 at all [/QUOTE]
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