Safe Room Question - Page 3

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

My understanding has always been a safe room is for protection from home invasion, burglars, etc. and not from storms or tornados.

bells4me · ‎03-13-2010

The only safe room I would have would be underground. I'll take earthquakes any day.

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

On 4/29/2014 PinkSugar said:
The only safe room I would have would be underground. I'll take earthquakes any day.

Me, too.

scotttie · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/29/2014 Love my grandkids said:
My understanding has always been a safe room is for protection from home invasion, burglars, etc. and not from storms or tornados.

Hello Love my grandkids: (I love mine too!): No there are safe rooms to protect from tornadoes. The question is who builds them and how they are built if they are effective.

scotttie · ‎03-09-2010

On 4/29/2014 esmerelda said:
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.

You are welcome!

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

Safe rooms are safer, but not perfectly safe. A big tornado can pick up a locomotive and fling it around, so unless you can build a space that can survive an impact with a thrown locomotive, it's not perfectly safe. There are very expensive custom made safe rooms made of specially formulated poured concrete, that are installed with deep concrete foundations and reinforced concrete on all sides and top, but even those aren't perfectly safe.

Tornadoes are God's sledgehammer. If He really, really wants to destroy something a tornado is the tool to use. You can build a house to survive floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, etc. but there's nothing you can build that will absolutely, positively survive a big tornado. When you have a storm that can pick up things as large as locomotives and hurl them around, there's not a lot you can build that will survive. A well made safe room is safer, but even the best made safe room can be destroyed by the right storm. There are some tornadoes that are nearly a mile wide and move slowly just hammering anything in their path with anything and everything they can pick up and move. Anything in the path just gets pulverized including safe rooms. They'll hold up longer than an unprotected space, but given enough time even the safest safe room will fall.

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straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

From what I read ... the door came off or opened on the safe room this woman died in....the door is the weakest part of these rooms.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

It sounds like some people build their own safe rooms and they don't have the skills or knowledge to do it correctly. Just because you call it a safe room doesn't mean it is one.

happycat · ‎09-18-2010

Thank you all for your replies. I feel like the safe room concept has been hyped up (here, at least) I know of at least one company pretty close who builds and installs them on site. I think in some cases consumers might have been taken advantage of, just wanting to protect their families.

Last night, I read on the internet that two men had been arrested for trying to get copper and other things they could sell from some of the wreckage in Vilonia. They had said the police were going to stay around there at night to keep the vandals out, but from the pictures they are showing on tv, well, I really can't even imagine what anyone would be thinking, to want to be doing anything but helping out. So disgusting, I hope they get the book thrown at them.