Remagen Tornado Safe Rooms
Time and Motion Study
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“.