Thinking about building an underground tornado shelter

[vr4chick]

Am I nuts? Tornadoes scare me. I was outside my friends house and we heard one rolling by :eek5:

[wingnut]

Depends on where you live...

...if you reside in The rocky mountains, then I would vote crazy :D

[vr4chick]

Depends on where you live...

...if you reside in The rocky mountains, then I would vote crazy :D

Tennessee. The tornado chance here seems to be growing with every year.

[vr4chick]

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[nodoze]

no not crazy
Cold War bomb shelters: A garish trip back in tome - Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/27/cold-war-bomb-shelters-a-garish-trip-back-in-tome/?page=all)
i remember watchign a show about real fallout shelters built around the country during cold war ect.
Private Bomb Shelters (19 pics) (http://acidcow.com/pics/18466-bomb-shelters-19-pics.html)

some were very very cool and elaborate and the goverment never forced registration of the privately made ones. the one i saw they actually engineered the main entrance room to be a trap room as well being able to flood to the ceiling if anyone ever entered without permission

[vr4chick]

no not crazy
Cold War bomb shelters: A garish trip back in tome - Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/27/cold-war-bomb-shelters-a-garish-trip-back-in-tome/?page=all)
i remember watchign a show about real fallout shelters built around the country during cold war ect.
Private Bomb Shelters (19 pics) (http://acidcow.com/pics/18466-bomb-shelters-19-pics.html)

some were very very cool and elaborate and the goverment never forced registration of the privately made ones. the one i saw they actually engineered the main entrance room to be a trap room as well being able to flood to the ceiling if anyone ever entered without permission

Ours would be used for 30 minutes for every tornado warning.

[niterydr]

Safecastle Shelters Main Page (http://www.safecastle.com/sheltershome.aspx)

Father in law's company, best shelters on the market IMHO.

[vr4chick]

Safecastle Shelters Main Page (http://www.safecastle.com/sheltershome.aspx)

Father in law's company, best shelters on the market IMHO.

Above ground?

[dbest671]

I believe they are called basements :suspect:

We were at the vets Friday when they all come in the room we were in with a couple of dogs, a kid, and two cats. We were like WTF, and they said a tornado was heading our way. All I wanted to do was get in the car and go home because I left the dogs outside. I thought the storms were south and moving east from us. Pretty scary shit, I almost cried. But luckily everything was all right. Just some hail.

We thought when we moved away from Florida we wouldn't have to deal with hurricanes and shit... I think I rather deal with a hurricane than tornadoes, at least you can somewhat prepare for hurricanes.

[vr4chick]

I believe they are called basements :suspect:

We were at the vets Friday when they all come in the room we were in with a couple of dogs, a kid, and two cats. We were like WTF, and they said a tornado was heading our way. All I wanted to do was get in the car and go home because I left the dogs outside. I thought the storms were south and moving east from us. Pretty scary shit, I almost cried. But luckily everything was all right. Just some hail.

We thought when we moved away from Florida we wouldn't have to deal with hurricanes and shit... I think I rather deal with a hurricane than tornadoes, at least you can somewhat prepare for hurricanes.

We have no basement :(

[nodoze]

basement ftw! seems like up here were dealing with more strightline wind damage v tornados every year . myt town was tore up completely by that shit

[vr4chick]

a bathroom closet is the best we get. :(

[vr4chick]

Barger & Sons, Inc. - Storm Shelters BargerAndSons.com (http://www.bargerandsons.com/precast/storm-shelter/above-ground-storm-shelter/above-ground-storm-shelter.html)

[nodoze]

im no tax expert or realestate agent but im willing to bet you can deduct most of that from taxes and you will prolly get every penny back out of it when selling the home if placed properly

[dbest671]

im no tax expert or realestate agent but im willing to bet you can deduct most of that from taxes and you will prolly get every penny back out of it when selling the home if placed properly

You can't get a tax deduction... we have already looked into some things this year for "home improvements" and "home repairs".

[vr4chick]

im no tax expert or realestate agent but im willing to bet you can deduct most of that from taxes and you will prolly get every penny back out of it when selling the home if placed properly

As long as it saves my life and the life of the ones I love...then its worth it.

[dbest671]

As long as it saves my life and the life of the ones I love...then its worth it.

Do you have neighbors, like immediately next to you? If you are just building a "storm shelter", you might be able to ask them if they want to go half in and put it to where both houses could get to it easily.

[vr4chick]

Do you have neighbors, like immediately next to you? If you are just building a "storm shelter", you might be able to ask them if they want to go half in and put it to where both houses could get to it easily.

They might think we are weird....

[vr4chick]

NASHVILLE – Tennessee taxpayers who purchase qualifying building supplies to construct storm shelters between July 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011 can save up to $2,500 on sales tax paid on certain construction supplies, due to recently passed legislation.

too late.

[dbest671]

They might think we are weird....

I don't think they would, if they don't have a tornado plan. You wouldn't believe what our neighbor has asked us to go half in on... like stupid shit... not life saving shit.

[vr4chick]

I don't think they would, if they don't have a tornado plan. You wouldn't believe what our neighbor has asked us to go half in on... like stupid shit... not life saving shit.

They have a lot of connections too...but they might not like our dogs lol

[green-lantern]

http://acidcow.com/pics/20110325/shelters_16.jpg

LOL

[stealthee]

Linda you are nuts, but we still like you. :p

[IPD]

don't waste your money. if you're going to the trouble of building something underground...why not just make it a multi-car garage? then it'll save you AND your 3/s from a tornado. :)

[onebadmollafolla]

I've seen my share of tornaders in person along with first hand experience in the damage they do. They can be nasty.

[vr4chick]

I guess we've had 4 from Wednesday and Friday. :eek:

[green-lantern]

I guess we've had 4 from Wednesday and Friday. :eek:

Shit got nasty again didn't it? I thought about giving you guys a call and checking on ya. My dad called me but it barely even rained here.

[vr4chick]

Shit got nasty again didn't it? I thought about giving you guys a call and checking on ya. My dad called me but it barely even rained here.

Boyds Creek got hit a couple times and chapman highway was hit...I heard a tornado outside of the neighborhood.

[green-lantern]

Crazy

My garage got hit by one before I bought the house.

[a2j]

what are you waiting for? start digging. :)

[UTRacerX9]

I grew up with tornadoes living in Kansas, but all the houses there have basements so we were never really worried about ourselves. One year, we had one touch down in our neighborhood, the house that was two houses up the street from ours had one of those old metal swing sets. They didn't use enough concrete I guess, or the tornado was just too powerful, but it tore it out of the ground, and it ended up in the backyard pool of another family 2-3 streets over.

[niterydr]

Above ground?

Can be, recommend burying them for the incognito factor.
http://www.safecastle.com/stormshelters.aspx

I have first hand experience with these, very nice. My next house (currently own a townhome) will get one for the safety factor.

[vr4chick]

I heard its possible to get sucked out of the underground shelter....Is this true?

[IPD]

I heard its possible to get sucked out of the underground shelter....Is this true?

in any tornado, you want to be in an interior room--one without windows. the most IDEAL form of room would be one with reinforced cinderblock walls and a solid-core door. ideally, the entrance to this room should be facing ANOTHER cinderblock wall without windows or doors--and the access points to this ante-chamber should be on the back-side of this "secure" room. granted, this is all moot if you effectively have a straw roof--hence the idea of placing it underground, flush with the adjacent landscape.

[beepbeep]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...that is so funny. I have been telling Chris I wanna add one to our property since summer of last year.

[vr4chick]

Who wants to make extra monies?

[Turbo Beast]

I do, I do!

[terrets]

You are definitely not crazy. Im building a fortress for when the world collapses :D.

[IPD]

You are definitely not crazy. Im building a fortress for when the world collapses :D.

i'm retrofitting my zombie apocalypse survival kit as an "entitlement apocalypse survival kit". actually all i did was change the name, the lethal contents are unchanged.

[n2nsanity]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...that is so funny. I have been telling Chris I wanna add one to our property since summer of last year.

Still got that school bus?

Here ya go
Bus Shelter (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2012/01/28/al-bus-storm-shelter.wsfa)

[beepbeep]

Still got that school bus?

Here ya go
Bus Shelter (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2012/01/28/al-bus-storm-shelter.wsfa)

That IS pretty awesome....but I'm not burying my short bus!! But it does give us ideas. Since we have plenty of property to put it on, we just have to figure out what will be most convenient to the house without risking anything that may be underground or taking away from the integrity of the house. We have more research to be done, for certain, but we have been reading a lot about it so far.