On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:23:16 -0500, Muggles wrote:

On 10/9/2015 11:49 AM, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:28:48 -0500, Muggles wrote:

There's no really perfect place to build a tornado shelter. A house or
debris could fall on the entrance and people would be trapped. I think
a good idea would be to build a couple of access entrances to an under
ground shelter. Store food, lights, batteries, a working cell phone, and
other essentials in the shelter. I'd love to have a tornado shelter,
but they're so darn expensive.

At the early construction phase, adding a hardened safe room does not
add that much incremental cost.


That's a good thing. If it can be done at that stage I think it's a
good idea. Better to have a safe room like that and never need it.

I'd guess an ocean shipping container would be easy. Dig the hole,
make the entry and bury it. Containers can be had on Craigslist for
as little $2500.


I'd need a little more land for one of those! They are huge, but it's a
good idea.

You can get smaller container like buildings that they use for
construction "trailers" in places where security is an issue.
They are as small as 8x12. They get dropped from a dumpster truck.
If you anchored that down well I think it would survive a tornado but
buried they would certainly work. That has to be something you would
do in a place with a very deep water table tho or it would just be an
inground pool.

The most wind resistant structures above ground are concrete dome
homes. We knew a guy north of Tampa who had several dome structures on
his property.