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Storm Shelters - Tornado Shelters
Hurricane Safe Rooms
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(FEMA F-5) Texas
Tech Tested
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WARNING!
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All storm shelters must be tested at the Texas Tech Wind
Research Center for a Federal Emergency Management Agency F-5 rating
to withstand tornados and hurricanes.
Real estate brokers have informed us that homes cannot be listed as having a storm safe room without this FEMA F-5 certificate.
To see a copy of our actual certification letter,
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Texas Tech tested aboveground safe rooms are designed to withstand an F5 tornado, or Category 5 hurricane, as seen in the picture below.

1974 tornado Xenia, OH
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Dear Customer:
You can purchase your STORM SAFE SHELTER
factory-direct from coast to coast. Our factory-trained technician
will deliver and install your safe room to assure proper installation. Our 7-person steel yard bunker is economically priced at $3495, plus delivery and installation.
The (FEMA F-5) Texas Tech
tested 5-person Iron Eagle-II is our most popular shelter accounting for more than
90% of our annual sales. The 1/4" steel, 5-person Iron Eagle II is $4295, plus
delivery and installation. The 3-person, 3/16" Steel Iron Eagle-I factory-direct price is $3695, plus
delivery and installation.
We are a small manufacturing company
operating in Collinsville, Oklahoma in the same location since 1973. We also have a warehouse located in Huntsville, Alabama. A
technician could be in your area next week. If you would like a
private home viewing of the Storm Safe Shelters, please call 918-519-0576(cell) or toll free at
800-324-9322 or for an appointment, or additional
information.
Thank you for the opportunity to earn your
business.
Brad Webb, President
"Have Storm Shelters - Will Travel" |
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Iron Eagle- II Garage Installed
Our goal here at Storm
Safe Rooms is to provide you with the best protection possible at the fairest
price.
We are now living in a
dangerous time, and you are here looking for the maximum in home safety and
protection for you and your family at an affordable price.
Thank you for the
opportunity to show you our many options in home security.
Other modifications
provide walk-in vault (panic room) protection from would be intruders.
We offer all types of safe
rooms and shelters
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The Wall Street Journal
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 VOL. CCLVI NO.63
A Closet Named Iron Eagle
By Gwendolyn Bounds
& Anne Marie Chaker
Many home owners dream of adding a walk-in closet or home office. Some are installing one that can withstand 250 mph winds, and in some cases, the weight of a loaded tractor trailer. Often made of concrete or steel, the spaces are also aboveground storm shelters meant to replace the cellar or below-ground structures long used to out hurricanes and tornadoes.
Sometimes dubbed “safe rooms”, many models are prefabricated units boasting action-movie names such as “Storm Room” and “Iron Eagle-II” and lead double lives as Survival Closets, Gun Vaults, Wine Cellars and Panic Rooms using bullet-resistant Kevlar walls.
After a decade of several high-profile devastating storms – from the recent Hurricane Earl and Katrina to the deadly 1999 Oklahoma twisters – more homeowners are investing in these new shelter designs, which typically cost between $4,000-$15,000. These safe rooms can be bolted to concrete floors in the garage, existing rooms within the home, or FEMA approved concrete slabs next to the home. While safe room’s main mission is to protect inhabitants from wind and flying debris, homeowners also pack them with valuables such as jewelry, important documents, computer data or even art and gun collections.
Richard Gallop recently installed a $5,995 Iron Eagle-II from stormsaferooms.com beside his Martinsville, VA carport, painted it while and wrote “ICE” on the side to mimic a commercial ice chest. His wife then planted wisteria vine nearby to help hide the shelter.
Most units are constructed of concrete or steel, have ventilation holes, a child-proof door and built in seating. Some homeowners outfit units with battery-powered lamps, radios, water, supplies and portable toilet.
They Many people grew up with underground shelters. They had to run into the storm to get away from the storm. An aging population may account for some of the new interest in aboveground safe room shelters. Brad Webb of Storm Safe Rooms says that wheel-chair access is a key selling point, particularly for families that might have underground shelters but a loved one who can’t navigate the stairs anymore.
Reputable safe room manufacturers must meet FEMA guidelines through Texas Tech Wind Research Center exposing their safe room designs to rigorous tests – including the flying debris test with (16’) 2x4 “missiles” fired out of an air-cannon with 100mph impact – and have them inspected by a third-party engineering company.
Some safe room manufacturers devise their own experiments. StormSafeRooms.com shows a 1989 Lincoln Continental dropped 40 ft onto its Iron Eagle-II. “Not even a dent or a scratch”, the website boasts. It’s kind of a “My daddy can whip your daddy” kind of thing” says Dr. Kiesling of Texas Tech Wind Research Center.
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USA Today
(The Nations Newspaper)
Newsline: Wednesday April 20th, 2011
Demand for Storm Safe Rooms whips up
Severe storms lead folks to shop for home shelters
By Elizabeth Weise USA Today
The wave of tornadoes and storms that brought death and destruction across the South and Mid-Atlantic has triggered another surge: inquiries to companies that specialize in storm shelters.
The calls are understandable reaction to tornadoes from Thursday through Saturday that killed at least 46 people in six states. When you go through a weekend like this, you realize how much damage these storms can do. With the National Weather Service forecasting more severe weather from Texas to the Great Lakes, the calls aren’t likely to abate. Tornadoes are happening more often and in areas considered low-risk or no risk.
StormSafeRooms.com in Collinsville, Oklahoma President Brad Webb says “Calls started hitting big time on Thursday when that tornado squall line started hitting Oklahoma.” Their biggest selling shelter is the five person, 4-by-6-foot Iron Eagle-II (1/4”) steel safe room that can be installed outside next to modular homes, or the most popular installation is the garage which costs between $4,000 and $6,000 depending on location. If the owners move, “they can unbolt the safe room and take it with them, plus we offer a moving service (why pay twice?).”
Webb says he’s getting more and more calls from companies looking to put in safe rooms for their employees. “We recently installed commercial safe rooms for Environmental Services in Mt. Juliet, TN, Harrison Arkansas Bank and a manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City.” The company is bidding on a 150 person safe room for Durant, OK Head Start school district by Tushka, Oklahoma whose school complex was destroyed by a tornado last Thursday.
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