Posted on 05/30/2013 1:54:16 PM PDT by Kartographer
My edc bag was valuable. It had phone numbers of all of my family, a comb to fix my kids' soaking hair, mints to bribe the kids, keys, knife, etc. I didn't have to spend minutes looking for all my pocket stuff. My bug out bag, on the other hand, needs work. It was so heavy, and soaking wet, I thought my elderly neighbor was going to hurt himself as I handed it down the ladder. In the future, I will break it into two bags, with the heavier stuff like food spread out. Also, I'll work to make it more waterproof. I suspect that many disasters come with rain. Hopefully, the small lessons I learned are valuable
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wow...
Did they get tore up?
I don’t blame you for wanting to be underground in your area. Where I’m at, storm runoff could quickly flood an underground shelter. Something like the shelter you pictured may be the only option.
Yep.... flooding isn’t an issue for me, so I’m good there. You know... Moore is 4 miles east of me. At the hospital over there, it’s 3 stories tall. There was a car on top of it that had been down the street a ways. Can you imagine being in one of those above ground safe rooms and having it hit by a flying Toyota? LOL
I’m sure it’s far better than being only in a wood frame building but no substitute for being below grade level.
Hopefully some folks will look closely at the aftermath of the Moore event and study what worked and what didn’t. I see on my local tv you guys are back in the potential risk area so be safe. We get it here in Indiana tomorrow.
You be safe too....
Not considering wet weather is an easy mistake to make. As we learned in the Corps, if it ain’t raining, you ain’t training.
We drove thru the devastation last Thursday and again yesterday. That area looked like a war zone. Some cars looked like they had been in a junkyard for years and dropped next to IH 35. All the paint was gone and there was no way to ID the make or model.
Give me something underground,
Yeah.... it’s crazy ain’t it?
They are rated to survive an F5.... so they say. I think you’d want to take your hearin’ aids out while it blew threw.. :)
FYI tornados actually cannot “suck” doors open. They can only reduce the pressure on the outside, so the force of the air pressure cannot exceed the differential between the air in the shelter and the lower air pressure in the funnel. In reality the shelter is forcing the doer open by its air pressure.
Just the engineer in me ...
Enjoy your day.
You never know whats really important. This is my family after my Grandmothers death from the F5 in Tuscaloosa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hXTGmK4XxY
By the way, we got it back! FREEPERS! They don’t know what we’re made of.
Out at the old family place, the cellar was away from the house and trees. Here, I want one but the water table is too high.
Wasn’t that the calculation I showed?
The 100 mb differential pressure between the inside of the vortex and the shelter chamber?
Of course we totally neglected any pressure equalization that would occur because the door is likely poorly sealed.
But it does give a bit of insight into the forces acting.
Or what we call in Indiana “farmer math”
The door seals pretty good actually. I mean it won’t rain in and water won’t run in it. But it has two 4 inch air vents in the cellar. PVC pipe inside those tin vent covers.
I think I have one neighbor who is preparing. His bug out plan includes a rebuilt moped he plans to use to ride out of dodge.
I’m pretty sure Im on my own.
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