Storm Safe Rooms

By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine.

Storm safe rooms.

Our shelters are built to meet fema standards these shelters can be installed in your garage or carport typically in one day. Residential safe rooms our residential steel safe rooms are specifically designed and constructed to resist wind pressures and wind borne debris impacts found in up to an ef 5 tornado or other severe storm event. In the last several years jackson tn has been hit with 3 violent f4 tornados and west tennessee residents know first hand how devastating those tornados can be. A major benefit of these storm shelters is that in areas that are prone to flooding these safe rooms won t float away.

We manufacture and install modular above ground storm shelters and safe rooms. Above ground storm shelters built for oklahoma weather are the best tornado safe rooms. We are based in joplin missouri which means we know firsthand how critical it is to have a safe and trusted place to go for shelter during a tornado or other severe weather. As you may have guessed an above ground storm shelter is a safe room that is built at ground level.

This legendary safe room was designed and engineered while making original testing equipment for fema at the texas tech national wind institute formerly wind engineering research center. A safe room is a hardened structure specifically designed to meet the federal emergency management agency fema criteria and provide near absolute protection in extreme weather events including tornadoes and hurricanes. Our safe rooms have been tested at the texas tech wind and science institute to exceed fema 320 361 standards as well as icc 500 building code requirements. Many people choose to install these storm shelters in their garages.

We show you a type that you can build yourself. Create a safe room wherever is most convenient for you and your family. With a thick outer skin strong enough to resist flying debris and an anchoring system designed to withstand an ef5 tornado storm safe above ground storm shelters are the best tornado safe rooms available in oklahoma city and beyond. What keeps your safe room from blowing away.

Our tornado shelters will keep you safe from the storm. Part of the house. Safe room bolt together safe room kit features easy to install modular steel panels that can be fitted to closet space or simply convert a part of any larger room into a fully secured safe room tornado shelter storm safe or multi use safety storage. Storm guard builder s choice econ model bolt together panel model.

This safe room set the standard for all safe rooms tested at texas tech. Lone star safe rooms are designed to withstand f5 tornadoes with winds in excess of 260 miles per hour.