I'm looking for some thoughts on including some kind of safe room inmy home I am about to build. It would probably serve as a safe roomfor storms since we get a lot of twisters here, but I would want it tobe able to have offer protection so I will not have to tape over mydoors and windows with plastic and duct tape.I saw on the discovery channel where this guy built a "bomb shelter"under his home. He did it by hand and it was a work of genius. Ittook him 16 years to do it and several hundred tons of concrete.The guy had passed away by this point, but he must have had arms likesteel pipes.I also am searching the web for some info, but there is nothing likefirst hand information.

If you do a google search for "safe room", you get 145,000 hits.Most homes here in SW OK over $150K are being built with a safe room. Most are just poured concrete vaults somewhere in the house with asteel door and two deadbolts. With furring strips glued to the concreteyou can hang drywall and except for the steel door, it looks like anyother room. Most do double duty as a master bedroom closet or a pantryoff the kitchen. Underground shelters are unusual, except for the oldstyle "bomb shelter" type in the back yard. Our clay soil is not kindto basements, so they are rare in this part of the country. Ours was built as an addition to our home and it's just 4'X 6' but it'smore than adequate. It's built of filled concrete blocks with a pouredconcrete ceiling and a steel door. It needs a light and an electricoutlet; some even have a tv cable, but the cable is usually the firstthing to go in severe weather. Local contractors are adding them toexisting homes by sawing a hole in the...

Bomb shelter, storm shelter, safe room...does any one have one of these in their home?

Oct 18, 2006 22 Replies

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Tom The Great 19 years ago

Where were you in 79? I remember the same rant about voting for Reagan. Ah the good ol'days. :)

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krw 19 years ago

Goldwater in '64. Some things never change.

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hallerb 19 years ago

People just DONT trust Bush for a bunch of excellent reasons:(

so who here is seeing that movie coming out this week on his assination?

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