![]() ![]() One guy might think it’s no big deal, wish they weren’t coming over every time the wind blows, you know.ĬURWOOD: What do you suppose people think they’re going to do otherwise? And some neighbors, you know, are more worried about seeing a little bit of wind and they’re calling ‘em and running over to the house. So it seems to be a pretty private thing.ĬURWOOD: They don’t want the neighbors from down the street to come running up and bang on their door at the last minute, huh? Sometimes when I was first starting this business I had little signs made that show my name and phone number in the front yard while we’re putting one in, and about nine out of 10 customers didn’t really want me to even display a sign. WEBB: Well, you know, most people are pretty private about ‘em, really. But I’ve heard, you know, I’ve heard stories at the home and garden shows about a tornado came through the area and we’ve got a six by eight shelter, it holds, you know, nine or 10 people, and we had 16 people in there, you know, and two dogs! So, I mean, I’m not sure if I was grandma and grandpa and the kids were all visiting and tornado’s coming through we wouldn’t, you know, leave them out in the garage.ĬURWOOD: Is it a good idea to let your neighbors know that you have one of these things? WEBB: Well, five square feet per person is the standard. Maybe the folks next door, maybe the kids from down the block are there. Somebody has a Storm Safe Room, it’s got room for, let’s say, six people, and there are ten people there. If you’re in hurricane country it wouldn’t be a good idea to be in a in-ground or above-ground safe room.ĬURWOOD: I got an ethical question for you. Of course a flood, nobody wants to be in a floodplain. Lincoln Continental and storm-safe room, post-demonstration. WEBB: We dropped it on to this safe room two times and just demolished the car, and we didn’t even make a dent in this safe room.ĬURWOOD: Now, are these designed to survive floods and earthquakes as well? To give you an idea of just how tough that test is, here a few years back during the Tulsa home and garden show we dropped a 1989 Lincoln Continental 40 feet using a hundred ton crane doing a demonstration for the home and garden show. They’ve got a wind research tunnel, and they also developed a flying debris canon that shoots this 16-pound, 16-foot two-by-four into the side of one of these like a missile, simulating a 250-mile-an-hour speed wind. But they have a test, the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid Texas Tech University to engineer these for an F5. All they’ve heard about is in-ground shelters from the old days, what they’re grandfather and grandmother had. WEBB: Well, a lot of people are kind of skeptical about them. ![]() ![]() At a Tulsa Home and Garden Show Demonstration, a 1989 Lincoln Continental is suspended 40 feet above a storm-safe shelter. ![]()
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