re: #97 Charles Johnson

I heard a show on NPR about storm shelters in places like Oklahoma - one reason they don’t have more of them is because the soil’s high clay content. It makes cellars very prone to leaking water and you have to use special sealing techniques to prevent the leakage.

It’s not that much more expensive, either. But the reputation that cellars have for leaking water is one of the big stumbling blocks to convincing more people to build them.

I seem to recall reading that a “storm room” was adequate, meaning that it just had to be a room set up in the home that was adequate to withstand the high winds etc. Which just meant it had to have walls sufficiently thick to protect against flying debris and heavy enough to prevent flying away,