Safe Room Question - Page 2

scotttie · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/28/2014 Preds said:
Above ground safe houses are not safe. Underground safe houses will not save you in a flood prone area. If a storm is headed your way, please use the safety lessons you have been told for years. Center of the house away from windows. In the bathtub with blankets on top of you. Closets that aren't on an outside wall. There is only so much you can do and if you know in advance, please get out of the area.

Preds, we always go in the basement during a tornado. I think that is a lot safer than the center of the house?

Preds · ‎12-17-2012

Scottie ... if you have a basement, it may be. Southern homes may not have a basement. We've never had a basement. Center of the house is our best bet.

Fate whispers to her, "You cannot withstand the storm." She whispers back, "I am the storm."

scotttie · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/28/2014 Preds said:
Scottie ... if you have a basement, it may be. Southern homes may not have a basement. We've never had a basement. Center of the house is our best bet.

Oh. Okay. Yes, we have a basement.

esmerelda · ‎03-10-2010

Based only on the movie Panic Room (think that's the name, Jodie Foster), IMO safe rooms (aka panic rooms) are safe from people (think home invasion)...not weather.

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scotttie · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/28/2014 esmerelda said:
Based only on the movie Panic Room (think that's the name, Jodie Foster), IMO safe rooms (aka panic rooms) are safe from people (think home invasion)...not weather.

That's a different kind of room, esme. There are panic rooms (think Jodie) and there are safe rooms that are built to protect from tornadoes.

Disneylandfan · ‎03-10-2010

Maybe it wasn't a very good safe room. I've seen stories about safe rooms where they showed wood beams hurling at the room at the velocity a tornado would create and it didn't even make a dent in the room. So maybe some are made better than others. Sad story.

ennui1 · ‎06-23-2013

On 4/28/2014 happycat said:
I always thought safe rooms were safe.

Mother Nature is a real beeyotch.

esmeraldagooch · ‎03-10-2010

happycat, The safe rooms we saw being constructed in new homes we viewed in Alabama were in walkout basements. Regular basements were not built in that area because of ground water. The construction of the rooms were in far back corners of the basement where the two walls were poured cement and the two other walls were created with cement blocks and a metal door. I too wondered if they could take a direct hit. Guess they don't.

esmerelda · ‎03-10-2010

On 4/28/2014 scotttie said:
On 4/28/2014 esmerelda said:
Based only on the movie Panic Room (think that's the name, Jodie Foster), IMO safe rooms (aka panic rooms) are safe from people (think home invasion)...not weather.

That's a different kind of room, esme. There are panic rooms (think Jodie) and there are safe rooms that are built to protect from tornadoes.

Thanks, scottie. Smile

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straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

I've seen pictures of safe rooms that were simply bolted into a corner in a garage....that didn't look safe to me....my idea of a safest safe room would be one positioned in the center of the house like a closet ....but I can see how people would not want one of those metal boxes inside their house taking up space....I guess if I was building a new house I would pay the extra to have one built into the plans....with that said....while safe rooms are cheaper I think the underground ones are safer....but....buyers beware...there are people out htere selling these things and many are not up to code or installed properly.

I heard on the news today that all of us here in N. Texas who applied for the grant to help cover the cost to put in a storm shelter are SOL because at the rate the grant money is alloted it would take 25 yrs to get to everyone who applied last year.

We do not have basements here in N. Texas....our homes are built on concrete slabs.