For your safe room, skip the duct tape

Sealings ... nothing more than sealings.


So my newspaper, the Raleigh News and Observer, had a quickie feature in the Life section giving advice for preparing for a hurricane. Part of the story talked about safe rooms: a sturdy room in your home where you can ride out the storm:

SAFE ROOMS

A safe room is the best protection in a tornado. To build one using Federal Emergency Management Agency specifications, go to www.fema.gov and search “safe room.” Pre-fabricated rooms are available for less than $5,000. The National Storm Shelter Association ( www.nssa.cc) lists verified safe room vendors.

That’s all fine and good. We’ve got a “safe room” designated and the family has met there before during tornado warnings. However, the picture next to the article showed some genius taping the door of his safe room with duct tape. The caption reads: “Keep duct tape handy to seal a ‘safe room.'”
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