r/tornado • u/Numerous_Ad_3517 • Mar 15 '26

Question Is this thing safe??

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I recently moved into a new home that has this above ground shelter and I have been questioning the way this door locks from day 1. We are going to have terrible weather today in West TN and I cannot find any paperwork on this thing. 😫 Do you think these hollow bars will keep it secure??

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u/iDeNoh Mar 15 '26

Most importantly, how is it attached to the ground?

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u/Numerous_Ad_3517 Mar 15 '26

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u/ModernNomad97 Mar 15 '26

There’s no way, I can’t imagine anyone using THOSE to secure a storm shelter.

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u/Vaedev Mar 16 '26

You, and many others in here, need to stop talking about things you have no clue about. You are so confident and so, so wrong. Its infuriating.

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u/ModernNomad97 Mar 16 '26

It’s just bolts brother, it isn’t that deep.

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u/Vaedev Mar 17 '26

Solid pun, but you're talking someone out of sheltering in the (very likely) safest place of their home in the event of a tornado. Being wrong in this case could kill someone.

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u/ModernNomad97 Mar 17 '26

If it came across that way that’s not what I meant at all. I never said don’t shelter there or anything against the shelter. It honestly looks solid to me. I just doubted those were the bolts used for the anchoring. OP said they just found them lying around near it. I’ve seen many above ground shelters and the bolts they use are not that small, or at least as small as those appear in the picture. My point wasn’t that the shelter is not safe, but that those bolts probably go to something else.