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Shelters for the Home Owner

Krimpette — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:39:30 GMT

Anyone else see the ads for Titan Shelters for your back yard? I have a hard time imagining who would buy one, yet they seem to advertise regularly on my local TV stations. (And TV ads certainly aren't cheap!). Just curious. Anyone buy one?

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brii — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:42:38 GMT

Is this a bomb shelter? I've never heard of this.

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tansy — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:45:52 GMT

A funny site came up when I googled the shelters. Someone in my neighborhood when I was growing up had a bomb shelter in the backyard.

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Qwackertoo — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:01:59 GMT

Tornadoes . . . . my next house WILL have a tornado shelter . . . either inside the house with a properly constructed SAFE Room OR . . . something outside below ground. You can't run but you can hide.

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Preds — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:13:13 GMT

Some dummy on the street behind us and down a few house had a bomb.tornado shelter installed underground in his backyard. Somehow, it has stopped all the drainage from all the yards to the stormwater drains, so now when it rains everyones back yards hold a ton of water. When we had the flood, the shelter filled up. Doesn't sound to "safe" to me. I'm like Qwacker, I'd like an above ground safe room.

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Krimpette — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:28:20 GMT

It is advertised as an underground ""survival and bomb shelter"". Kind of freaks me out whenever I see the ads. I never realized that we had gotten to the point of even needing to consider needing a bomb shelter! Scary!

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stilltamn8r — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:33:55 GMT

When I was growing up, my across the street neighbors h d a bomb shelter- (no tornadoes in Southern California!) as teenagers it was a great place to party, and the neighborhood band practiced down there... it was more like a basement, not out in their yard...

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missy1 — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:14:28 GMT

Their site says they have reached their quota for 2014.

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Krimpette — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:27:04 GMT

On 2/24/2014 missyw1 said: Their site says they have reached their quota for 2014.

I noticed that also. Given that, I wonder why they're still advertising on TV.

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stilltamn8r — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:27:59 GMT

On 2/24/2014 Krimpette said:
On 2/24/2014 missyw1 said: Their site says they have reached their quota for 2014.

I noticed that also. Given that, I wonder why they're still advertising on TV.

Taking orders for 2015?

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GCR18 — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:04:16 GMT

I never heard of it. I don't know anyone who has it or something like it.

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Melania — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:07:14 GMT

Just what kind of channels are they advertised on?

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mistriTsquirrel — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:32:37 GMT

On 2/24/2014 Predsfan said:
Some dummy on the street behind us and down a few house had a bomb.tornado shelter installed underground in his backyard. Somehow, it has stopped all the drainage from all the yards to the stormwater drains, so now when it rains everyones back yards hold a ton of water. When we had the flood, the shelter filled up. Doesn't sound to "safe" to me. I'm like Qwacker, I'd like an above ground safe room.

You mean like "duck and cover?"

Who's the genius who came up with that idea???

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stilltamn8r — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:18:49 GMT

On 2/24/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:
On 2/24/2014 Predsfan said:
Some dummy on the street behind us and down a few house had a bomb.tornado shelter installed underground in his backyard. Somehow, it has stopped all the drainage from all the yards to the stormwater drains, so now when it rains everyones back yards hold a ton of water. When we had the flood, the shelter filled up. Doesn't sound to "safe" to me. I'm like Qwacker, I'd like an above ground safe room.

You mean like "duck and cover?"

Who's the genius who came up with that idea???

Hey, and I always thought I went to a grade school with magic desks that, once you knelt beneath them, they would protect you from nuclear attack!!!!

Wow, remember way back then, when we only had to worry about the Russians????

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JustJules — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:37:53 GMT

LOL! What a total gimmick, but some people will buy anything. I love that they advertise how it will help keep your family safe in times of natural disasters, financial collapses, and world wars.

I have not seen the commercial aired on my television, thankfully, but I did watch the commercial on Youtube...it's good for a giggle. Like they say, there is a sucker born every minute. If you go to their website, there is a statement that starts with "Due to the overwhelming response from the public, we have reached our quota of sales for 2014....." It's only February, doesn't exactly instill confidence. Maybe they are made in China and have to be shipped here?

I live in tornado alley, think I will stick with our storm cellar. As for protecting us from financial collapses, if a NYC high-rise isn't safe, not sure how a Titan shelter will do any good.

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Krimpette — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:14:36 GMT

On 2/24/2014 Melania2 said:
Just what kind of channels are they advertised on?

I've seen it on several channels, most recently local ABC during the earlier morning hours. (I'm in the metro-DC area….not exactly "tornado alley" here, though we do have rare occurrences.)

(Edited to correct channel)

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Financialgrl — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:23:17 GMT

I'm outside DC by about an hour and get the DC channels as our local ones and noticed these ads began around Christmas. I'm guessing they may appeal to the doomsday preppers (seen a couple of those shows on NatGeo channel I think).

It's an interesting ad but I often wonder - you are underground in your shelter and at some point run out of food. If its a real doomsday scenario, no one will be manning the stores, looting will have taken everything from the shelves, trucks will no longer deliver things, anyway so then what? I also like the "for as low as $129 per month" and wonder, hmmm, for how many years is that??

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151949 — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:38:37 GMT

If you live in a tornado prone area of course you need a shelter - otherwise i thinkthey are rather a huge waste of money. If there ever was a nuclear attack on the USA I would not want to be one of the ones who survive.

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Lila Belle — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:46:36 GMT

I just * gasp * googled the shelter and it seems the owner of Titan shelters is a scam artist.

Alfred Demola aka Lou Russo of NJ operated several businesses that have ripped off lots of people.

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Krimpette — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:24:36 GMT

On 2/25/2014 Lila Belle said:
I just * gasp * googled the shelter and it seems the owner of Titan shelters is a scam artist.

Alfred Demola aka Lou Russo of NJ operated several businesses that have ripped off lots of people.

He sure must have a lot of money to be running TV ads, even when their alleged "quota" for the year has already been met.