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<blockquote data-quote="OK Corgi Rancher" data-source="post: 3981089" data-attributes="member: 45773"><p>Quoted from the link above:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To be fair, that article is 10 years old so I don't know if it's still accurate. But the statement in bold is exactly what I'm talking about.</p><p></p><p>I did find one article about a lady killed in a 2014 tornado in Arkansas while inside her above-ground safe room. The door was impacted by debris and it failed. But... It wasn't a door designed to be used on a storm shelter. It was a regular steel door with a knob and deadbolt lock. Yeah...that's not gonna work.</p><p></p><p>All the certified above ground shelters survived the storm and protected the occupants in a 2013 EF5 in Moore:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.oklahoman.com/story/weather/2013/05/31/oklahoma-tornadoes-aboveground-shelters-stood-up-in-face-of-ef5-moore-tornado/60929516007/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OK Corgi Rancher, post: 3981089, member: 45773"] Quoted from the link above: To be fair, that article is 10 years old so I don't know if it's still accurate. But the statement in bold is exactly what I'm talking about. I did find one article about a lady killed in a 2014 tornado in Arkansas while inside her above-ground safe room. The door was impacted by debris and it failed. But... It wasn't a door designed to be used on a storm shelter. It was a regular steel door with a knob and deadbolt lock. Yeah...that's not gonna work. All the certified above ground shelters survived the storm and protected the occupants in a 2013 EF5 in Moore: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.oklahoman.com/story/weather/2013/05/31/oklahoma-tornadoes-aboveground-shelters-stood-up-in-face-of-ef5-moore-tornado/60929516007/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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