I live 4 miles from Moore Ok. One mile north of the path the storm took. This is where we rode it out.... It was to close for comfort.
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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I live 4 miles from Moore Ok. One mile north of the path the storm took. This is where we rode it out.... It was to close for comfort.
Impressive.
Based on some stories I’ve seen about doors being sucked open, you might also consider beefing up the latch.
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It has two chain locks on it.... can’t really see them in that picture. It’s 8 x 8 .... 7 foot tall inside. Well stocked :)
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Hopefully, you have another entrance if that wall falls on the door.
I like the reinforcing tubes on the door.
If you’re handy, I look at adding another tube or angle iron along the latch side, and making sure the chains are welded/bolted solidly through the tube.
Got involved in a discussion with a neighbor about political matters and somehow we ended up with the prepper issue. He and his wife both have professional jobs, make and spend a lot of money and have no children. He stated he knew they wouldn’t have to worry about having anything extra because he knew all the neighbors would pitch in and share what they had because he and his wife “were so busy they just didn’t have time to deal with such things”.
All the other families on our block have small children, stay-at-home moms and single incomes. They are all filling their own Obama Closet as best they can, a little at a time. I certainly would help those folks if I could but I think after listening to me for a while now realizes he and his wife would largely be on their own.
That wall is north of the cellar. Typically the stuff gets blown north... but nope... that’s the only entrance. In this part of the country you’re suppose to register these cellars so first responders know where to look. My family knows where to look too. But that’s why you stock it with batteries, battery powered radio and light, etc etc... in case you gotta be there a day or two.
Good ideas.
Also... that door is really heavy. It’s made of some pretty thick sheet metal welded to angle iron. That green pole holding it open is spring loaded at the bottom, or one person wouldn’t ever get it open by themselves.
I did a (very rough) calculation.
A quick search indicates you could have a delta pressure of about 100 millibars due to the tornado. That’s about 1.5 pounds per square inch. (that’s an extreme assumption but possible).
If the door is 2 ft by 6 feet, that’s 1.5 x 24 x 72 = 2592 pounds force.
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