May 2019 update: His Fiance did have to go down there one evening because a Wall cloud was moving in fast threatening a possible tornado. would want ear plugs as many others are commenting.

My question was answered at 5:48. I'd be afraid the garage roof would trap me inside. A floor jack inside would allow the door to be opened even if under load.

Eric T I had the same question.

Denis Nadeau dude that’s like holding sheet metal over your head in a ditch...I’d be better off drinking whiskey and crawling in a nearby cave

Thats pretty awesome. But it scares me that theres so much you have to do before you get into it to be safe. Have to have the area clear to open the door, have to find the pin and put it in the hole and step on it. Seems like it takes a lot of time one may not have. Especially if being woken up in the middle of the night by sirens

Donna Nelson yea I heard about that and it’s actually a really good idea

They are registered with GPS to the City.

Yes we have that in Tennessee also. I have an above ground shelter, My worst fear was drowning. At least that won't happen in mine.

@@rosewood513 yes we were in a storm shelter and water leaks in and it got knee deep it was terrifying

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It is for protection not to set up house keeping

@@ronaldstaples5752 it's a joke R/wooshhhhhh

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Long story short, don't live in CA

And homeless people would be living in it.

If we are in a civil war with our government, registering your shelter would make it easier to find you too.

some places in Alabama too

lol true true

This is excellent advice, and something we (and probably many) overlook.

FigBits, I, for years, have had my own “to go bag” when we are under a Tornado Watch, because I NEVER know when The Lord God Almighty will ALLOW a Tornado Watch to become a Tornado Warning. My “to go bag” is, for the most part, ready 24/7. I do not know IF you have ever been in a Tornado before, BUT I have, the first one was when I was in the fourth grade in Mountain View, Georgia, and that is in Clayton County. This Tornado, in the early morning hours, went DIRECTLY OVER our house. My family were living across the Expressway from Hartsville International Airport, and two streets behind our house was the Railroad Tracks that stopped at The FORD AUTOMOBILE PLANT. With Hartsville International Airport DIRECTLY in FRONT of us, and the Railroad Tracks behind us, two streets, I can promise you that the Tornado did NOT sound anywhere close to “a freight train OR a passenger train”. The Tornado sounded as if thousands upon thousands of the large passenger airliners were flying over our house AT THE SAME TIME, and ALSO, throw in the sound/noise of “the wailing woman”, that is what that Tornado, and the three next ones since I got married, sounded like. I did NOT intend to “talk/comment” your “ears off😊.” wado,Ann Benson.

@@ric0000 some ounces of silver and an ounce of gold would go a long way too...

It's where we store the camping gear. Tents, cook stoves, lanterns, ez-up, coolers. Double duty.

@@lakesnake2005 I once suggested that someone have food, water, clothes, a mattress in their shelter... "Oh I'm only going to be in it for a short bit." Apparently people have tornado shelters without realising they may not walk out of it and back into their home

Luc Don id just carry your ass. Ain’t got time for that in a real tornado.

Breaking Reality ours is how you open the door...the hand rail is necessary when you are getting four kids in and three dogs and myself and my husband if he is home.

Breaking Reality you have to go one at a time. Not carrying nobody down that little entry way to small.

I saw some online that were walk ins that would be easier to get in and the door opens in so you won't get trapped...I need that because I have trouble with going down stairs...

Damn good idea. Would be perfect for an oil change pit.

Greenpea until your garage collapses in on the door when you actually need it. Good luck getting out !

we share your opinion!

Greenpea they are better if you have a headache rack on them...but that only works in a building you aren’t pulling cars into obviously. I got trapped in a garage shelter after the house collapsed on top of the door. Took almost 24hours to get out. But I’m not complaining, the alternative would have been terrible. Now I have one built under my shop out back with a headache rack over the door. One of the best things I ever built!

Brilliant idea

Great suggestion! I have a shelter just like this and I didn’t think of that.

I would great idea 💡

Or a pa system

I am registered with the town so in the event of a tornado they will come around after and check on us to make sure we are not trapped. I have an above ground since I am afraid I would drown.

Register it with the city, county and emergency services and tell everyone you know that you have one. Turn your cell phone off to conserve battery power in case you need it to call 911. Tornados don't stall in one place for hours or days like a hurricane does. When it hits your dwelling it's one big explosion than in 10 minutes to one hour it's gone.

Yeah - unfortunately lots of people are in your situation. My brother can get F4's or higher so he bought a house with a shelter. Save your pennies and get yourself a shelter, it might be the best investment you ever make!

I live in Summit, MS and the only place we can go is the bathroom

@@judeharvey2322 yes us to the bathroom is the only "safe" place I pray we don't get a 4 or 5 through here I'm from Jackson

Safest thing would be to stick your head in the toilet bowl to prevent debris hitting your face and grasping the bowl as hard as you can being it’s the only thing anchored to the floor, on a direct hit

how often is water surge an issue in a tornado?

ric0000 It's not water surge per se. But torrential rain is common in a massive supercell that is usually the cause for tornadoes in "tornado alley". The majority of the children that died in ef5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri drowned in the school basement. It's rare to be trapped long enough for that to happen but it would sure be a shitty way to die after surviving a tornado.

agreed for sure... sounds like he will be getting a hand pump as a gift soon!

ric0000 He honestly should also invest in an emergency radio with NOAA weather alert. The ones with the hand crank on the side. I live in a part of Colorado that rarely has tornadoes but one of those save my life as I was asleep when the alarm sounded on it and woke me up. We got to the basement about 3 minutes before my neighbors car ended up in my bedroom and my roof was torn off. I had the radio specifically for the freak snowstorms but was sure glad I had it that day. There is nothing scarier than a tornado.

You can see the radio in its case at 3:05 if you paid attention to the video

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If that is your fear just buy a handpump or a small 12v pump and connect it to a battery. I have the same shelter at my home. If I had that fear I would station my SCUBA tank and regulator in my shelter. I could stay there for about a week at that depth.

No1s Business when you install a shelter your have to pull a permit and register it with the city. Live in Moore

That is all well and good but what happens if the fire and police department are destroyed also? Wouldn't want to be trapped in there. I would like one outside buried in the yard not under a structure.

That's what I was thinking. It's a good pit

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Or hide your ex girlfriend

Well you usually aren't in there long, so that shouldn't be too bad, but when you hear or see a tornado bearing down on your house you probably wouldn't think twice about hopping in!

Britlyn Trent I am too but I think I could handle it if an F5 were bearing down on me. Klaustrophobia is visual. If you close your eyes it helps. When going through an MRI machine, close your eyes tightly and think of the words to a song.

shadrach F5s no longer exist. It’s EF5 now.

@@plawson8577 so we are safe then.

@@ric0000 ......... If i had one of these at my place, i would jack my cock so hard in there during storms. Play some brown noise and listen to the echo too. Thanks for the awesome video!

Good point. A lot of tornadoes have visited since this was done!!

Oof lol

KZfaqr GATURKS says: Exactly what I thinking

@Taste My Faeces yeah 2 yrs ago

@Taste My Faeces plot twist: I haven't moved on

@Taste My Faeces plot twist: The world has not yet moved on

Bianca B in Indiana most of us just go into the basement or an interior room on the bottom floor with no windows (bathroom or closet typically).

@Bianca B hope your doing well Aussie ! Our prayers are with your Country.

@Taste My Faeces not sure about Austria, as I’m in Australia… and we definitely don’t have storm shelters in our homes/yards! I’m in Melbourne and we hardly see weather that would be considered “extreme” enough for a storm shelter. :)

Hey I live in piqua lol

Thanks, I never seem one until my brother moved to OK, glad you found it interesting too!

Genius lol!

Same!

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D. H. “Naive”. Not nieve”.

I was thinking some hearing protection should be put in there.

D.H. I watched a documentary on the Zenith Tornado of 74. Some 300mph winds which killed over a thousand people and left over thousand more injured and over thousand or more homes n buildings destroyed. A very horrific ordeal. Is there any remains of tornado damage still there from it?

I remember that day. I'm not sure whether they used the term "supercell" then (it may have been the first time I heard it), but here in Nashville, Tennessee, the weather was really scary. We lived in a house in a subdivision, but right at the top of a hill, and we could see all around. There were tornado warnings in our region, but not for us, yet. We walked out onto the front yard to have a look around. The clouds were moving fast, but not just in a particular direction. They were "boiling", a description my mom made of them. I had never seen clouds like that, and have nevet seen quite the same thing since. Later, we heard about the terrible storm in Xenia, OH. We just lived in that house 1 year, the last year of my father's life, so maybe that's why I remember it so clearly.

thank you for asking! yes so far so good. But his Fiance did have to go down there one evening because a Wall cloud was moving in fast threatening a possible tornado.

You give a statement without backing it up with reasoning or experiences, why would we believe you that safe rooms under the house are in fact the opposite? I'm just curious as to why you think that because they way you said it you stated an opinion rather than a fact.

Tyger You are correct, I gave no hard facts to back up my opinion on safe rooms. I just feel that anything other than being underground in a shelter is not entirely safe. I don't see these in the garage shelters are safe either (my opinion), they can be buried under tons of debris and unless they were installed on high ground, would fill with water with no escape. When I was about 10 or 12, some 45 years ago, a tornado hit the small town my grandparents lived in while I was staying with them. I remember being herded out to the cellar, about 40 to 50 yards from the house.....when it was over, nothing remained and I have feared bad weather ever since. i guess I base my opinion on fear, and I may not be right to do so.

@@earnharvick I see where you're coming from, thank you for explaining whether you're righting wrong, I appreciate it.

I can see them drowning if ever a flood

Earnharvick there are pictures from the Moore tornado where there is a flat land where there used to be houses but there are a few random safe rooms standing without a dent

Exactly, much better than other options like waiting to be sucked up in a bathtub. These shelters are rated for F5 events, in the end though, no matter what you have, things can get hairy.

Live in central OK. Don't have one myself. I live in an rv a mile from where the tornado killed people a few weeks ago. You get used to em.

Absolutely! I hope this is something my brother NEVER has to test.

Great idea!

Yeahhhhhh lol

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Youre awesome

But.., clearly, there's nothing 'heavy duty' about those chains.

If you are worried about a zombie apocalypse you need much more than a shelter in your life.