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Safety in garage floor / in ground vs above ground tornado shelters ?
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<blockquote data-quote="cjjtulsa" data-source="post: 2204071" data-attributes="member: 6146"><p>It's a consideration. The in-floor shelters have a comealong inside them to jack the door open, but that may not be of any real help if the entire house is on top of it. Then again, EF5 tornadoes are the exception, not the rule, even among storms that are litterally hit and miss. Most tornadoes take a roof and maybe a little more, where the EF4s and EF5s clean homes from foundations and leave huge piles of debris on top of slabs. Thankfully, those aren't as common. Just my 2¢, and it may be wrong.</p><p></p><p>It was my best choice, as my wife (nor I) trust the above ground, bolted to the floor units. And I eliminated the idea of an outdoor shelter, as the idea of trying to drag two terrified kids outside in the dark, rain, hail, high winds, and hellish lightning to try and get them to go into a dark, likely damp concrete box half buried in the ground didn't seem like a good idea, either. And the best place in my yard to locate it to be the most convenient just happened to be the same space occupied by all of our incoming electric, phone, and aerobic septic tank. So we have the GroundZero, and I'm comfortable with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cjjtulsa, post: 2204071, member: 6146"] It's a consideration. The in-floor shelters have a comealong inside them to jack the door open, but that may not be of any real help if the entire house is on top of it. Then again, EF5 tornadoes are the exception, not the rule, even among storms that are litterally hit and miss. Most tornadoes take a roof and maybe a little more, where the EF4s and EF5s clean homes from foundations and leave huge piles of debris on top of slabs. Thankfully, those aren't as common. Just my 2¢, and it may be wrong. It was my best choice, as my wife (nor I) trust the above ground, bolted to the floor units. And I eliminated the idea of an outdoor shelter, as the idea of trying to drag two terrified kids outside in the dark, rain, hail, high winds, and hellish lightning to try and get them to go into a dark, likely damp concrete box half buried in the ground didn't seem like a good idea, either. And the best place in my yard to locate it to be the most convenient just happened to be the same space occupied by all of our incoming electric, phone, and aerobic septic tank. So we have the GroundZero, and I'm comfortable with it. [/QUOTE]
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