Time and Motion Study

Remagen Tornado Safe Rooms

tornado warning A very important tool in determining the appropriate location for an emergency shelter for a home is a “Motion and Time Study”. It is important to determine the time it will take for each family member to reach the safe room from living and sleeping quarters. Tornadoes usually strike with little advanced warning. Most tornado survivors say that they had less than one minute to seek shelter when they found that they were about to be hit by the tornado. Bear in mind that movement may have to be done in darkness and outside under very hazardous conditions.

StormCloset in First Floor Closet

Leg of Trip to Emergency Shelter Travel Time (seconds)

1. Bedroom to upstairs hallway	6 seconds
2. Hallway to top of stairway	5 seconds
3. Top of stairway to bottom of stairway	10 seconds
4. Stairway to doorway of safe room	5 seconds
5. Through hallway safe room door	2 seconds
Total travel time	28 seconds
Alert/Wake-up time	15 seconds
Lock-down time	10 seconds
Total time to shelter:	*53 seconds*

Outside Underground Tornado Shelter

Leg of Trip to Emergency Shelter Travel Time (seconds)

1. Bedroom to hallway closet	26 seconds
2. Hallway closet door to rear exit door	9 seconds
3. Rear exit door to bottom of outside stair	9 seconds
4. Outside stair to shelter door	12 seconds
5. Open shelter door	3 seconds
6. Down stairs into shelter	7 seconds
Total travel time	66 seconds
Alert/Wake-up time	15 seconds
Lock-down time	10 seconds
Total time to shelter:	*91 seconds*

Conclusion

When precious seconds count, seeking shelter in an outside underground storm shelter can add as much 41% more travel time to safety.

Installing an in-home Remagen Safe Room’s Residential Safe Room patented steel shelter system turns any new or existing home into an impenetrable shelter helping to increase your family’s security – “keeping what’s important to you safe“.