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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2199525" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>I've been talking to the wife about this very thing. Ours is currently in the back yard (concrete/steel in-ground), but we're building a house and are discussing getting on in the garage vs. a safe-room.</p><p></p><p>The problem is physics pretty much dictates that a tornado has the ability to destroy just about any above-ground safe-room made (find a large enough dense enough object and sling it fast enough with a direct hit... there are very few man-made structures that can withstand that - and if they did, would the people inside survive?). But debris isn't only an issue in a garage - there are piles of debris that are no where near the foundation of the house they came from all over the state right now. </p><p></p><p>It all comes down to how likely is that specific "perfect storm" going to happen? How likely is it that debris is going to trap you in the cellar? How likely is flooding in your in-ground cellar? </p><p></p><p>The kicker is that all of these things (including getting directly hit by a tornado) are unlikely in the first place, so it's all a risk/reward exercise. What do you prepare for and how much do you spend?</p><p></p><p>I think we're going to stick with an outside accessible in-ground shelter that sits partially in a mound like the one we have so that it won't fill up with water, but it's not going to fly away. I think we're going to put it close to the back porch so we don't have to run all the way across the yard in the storm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2199525, member: 229"] I've been talking to the wife about this very thing. Ours is currently in the back yard (concrete/steel in-ground), but we're building a house and are discussing getting on in the garage vs. a safe-room. The problem is physics pretty much dictates that a tornado has the ability to destroy just about any above-ground safe-room made (find a large enough dense enough object and sling it fast enough with a direct hit... there are very few man-made structures that can withstand that - and if they did, would the people inside survive?). But debris isn't only an issue in a garage - there are piles of debris that are no where near the foundation of the house they came from all over the state right now. It all comes down to how likely is that specific "perfect storm" going to happen? How likely is it that debris is going to trap you in the cellar? How likely is flooding in your in-ground cellar? The kicker is that all of these things (including getting directly hit by a tornado) are unlikely in the first place, so it's all a risk/reward exercise. What do you prepare for and how much do you spend? I think we're going to stick with an outside accessible in-ground shelter that sits partially in a mound like the one we have so that it won't fill up with water, but it's not going to fly away. I think we're going to put it close to the back porch so we don't have to run all the way across the yard in the storm. [/QUOTE]
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