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Actual facts needed about storm shelters being sucked out of the ground/doors failing
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<blockquote data-quote="Tampabucs" data-source="post: 2202472" data-attributes="member: 9581"><p>This is what I do for a living, as I own F5 Storm Shelters in Edmond. We have put in over 1,500 in ground garage storm shelters and close to 75 or so safe rooms. My biggest fear when I started the company was the lids getting ripped off an underground model. We had an engineer design our shelters with that in mind. We are one of the only companies that has tornado straps on the top of the shelter, under both sets of lids and a lock. I wanted to ensure our lids couldn't get ripped off. They are 1/4 plate steel and have over 7 points of contact. </p><p></p><p>I have seen some older outdoor cellars that had one small steel latch. I heard on the news one person had their lid ripped off on the news. I heard another story that 4 men kept a lid from getting sucked off. For me, the issue is too many companies even in-ground garage shelter companies use one barrel lock and just lay one lid over the other. I have been told by many people that our design seemed a bit much even by other shelter companies. I would much rather be on the too much side than be a guy on news channel 9 who got his lid ripped off or even worse killed someone due to negligence. It's an expensive business to be in that takes a fortune to run, but skimping on the locking mechanism is something we weren't going to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tampabucs, post: 2202472, member: 9581"] This is what I do for a living, as I own F5 Storm Shelters in Edmond. We have put in over 1,500 in ground garage storm shelters and close to 75 or so safe rooms. My biggest fear when I started the company was the lids getting ripped off an underground model. We had an engineer design our shelters with that in mind. We are one of the only companies that has tornado straps on the top of the shelter, under both sets of lids and a lock. I wanted to ensure our lids couldn't get ripped off. They are 1/4 plate steel and have over 7 points of contact. I have seen some older outdoor cellars that had one small steel latch. I heard on the news one person had their lid ripped off on the news. I heard another story that 4 men kept a lid from getting sucked off. For me, the issue is too many companies even in-ground garage shelter companies use one barrel lock and just lay one lid over the other. I have been told by many people that our design seemed a bit much even by other shelter companies. I would much rather be on the too much side than be a guy on news channel 9 who got his lid ripped off or even worse killed someone due to negligence. It's an expensive business to be in that takes a fortune to run, but skimping on the locking mechanism is something we weren't going to do. [/QUOTE]
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