 It's one of nature's deadliest forces. Every year tornadoes kill dozens of people and create millions of dollars in damage. Maybe it's time to fight back. Hello I'm Michael Holligan, welcome to your new house. It's protection right inside your home. A super strong indoor tornado shelter that can stand up to almost any storm. I'll show you how it's done. And tornadoes aren't the only weather to keep an eye on. Super handyman Al Carroll has a state of the art weather station you can install yourself. Plus we're going to talk a little bit about air infiltration and how to save half of your utility bill each month by keeping outside air out. All this and more coming up right now on Your New House. For a moment there you probably thought your television was tuned to the wrong channel or perhaps your satellite provider had connected you with the wrong link. Well this is Enet, it is learning again and I'm Ken Stewart. We slipped the opening for Your New House in to let you know that we have two new television partners here, Michael Holligan's Your New House and the Discovery Channel. I'll tell you more about this later but right now I'd like you to think about this question. Is your community at risk from tornadoes and hurricanes? If yes is the answer and for much of the country it is, then today's program has some important information for the residents and builders in your area. For many years now the Federal Emergency Management Agency along with corporate partners, researchers and local communities has been working on ways to reduce structural damage from high winds and lower the death and injury toll produced by these storms. From these joint efforts has come the concept of above ground safe rooms, a secure area in a home where the family can take shelter should a tornado or hurricane hit their neighborhood. Much of the research work has been conducted by the Wind Research Engineering Center at Texas Tech University located in Lubbock, Texas. Recently we had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Ernie Keesling, one of the center's founders and learn about the results of their work. In May 1999 FEMA responded to the tornadoes that swept through the Midwest particularly Oklahoma and Kansas. Among the responders was a Building Performance Assessment Team. We've included footage from their work as well in this first segment, safe rooms from research to practice. We are inside our safe room and it's a six feet wide and 12 feet long safe room and we have steel reinforcement inside these walls and they're six inches thick and our ceiling is 10 inches thick. It is a multipurpose room for us. It's a safe place to be able to keep things protected from fire. If we have documents that we want to keep safe there's a place to be able to do that and should we need to be here for any length of time we have a little table and chairs. We have a battery powered TV and radio, a little bit of water, flashlights, just the extra chairs for neighbors if they should come in. We're just so very proud that we have it with this steel door and our latches as Texas Tech designed and and very proud to have it. I feel very safe. The wind forces will be somewhat higher in a tornado. On the other hand they're higher only for a very small area and and even for only a small portion of the width of the tornado because in a tarnatic wind the wind speed is say if the vortex is rotating at a given wind speed and that's where the maximum wind speeds come from where the translational speed adds to the rotational speed is where the wind speed is going to be the greatest in a tornado but then as soon as you get out away from the center a little bit the rotational wind speeds die down considerably so it's only a very very narrow strip where the wind speeds are high in a tornado. Most of the damage is done by wind speeds say well under 150 miles per hour but in providing occupant protection we feel we need to design for that worst case scenario. Now in a hurricane it's a different situation. The wind speeds typically are not as high even for tornadoes that are spawned by hurricanes but the wind speeds are a much longer duration and in fact they can come from both directions as say the pass is close to the point of that we're considering. So they're a different challenge and furthermore the occupants are going to be there for a much longer period of time and because of that you're also likely to have far more people in the shelter so we have to pay attention in hurricane design to amenities to more space to some comforts in there because people are likely to be there for a long period of time. Obviously the garage was not a very good place to be or the workshop you can see the walls the door has been blown out and the roof is gone a lot of debris is going to be flying around in here. We go inside you can see all this exterior wall the windows have been blown out so you want to stay away from windows. Inside here here's where we had a major failure within the home obviously some sort of missile penetrated this wall and you can see the splatter on the opposite wall this room would be very dangerous to be in. It's clear it'd be filled with flying glass and debris and that's your major hazard in tornado hits. First of all there's a higher concentration of structural members there and then in say in the case of the bathroom you have some plumbing that is affixed to the walls into the floor that further anchors the building so it's not surprising that the small interior rooms offer a higher degree of occupant protection simply by the way they're built and the size of them and it becomes relatively inexpensive then to modify them to provide yet a higher degree of occupant protection by hardening and stiffening. You have an interior hallway you can see there's a lot of debris splattered around in here but essentially anywhere within this hallway for this case would be a relatively safe place to be. Now my recommendation in this sort of situation if we can come down the hallway in here would be the bathroom and obviously what we've been telling people is get into the bathtub pull something over on top of you from everything we've seen that if you're going to survive the tornado that's one of the best places you could possibly go. Another good place would be an interior closet. This sort of structure also will will tend to be the last thing to go in the house. First of all the shelter needs to be anchored to the floor so we would in new construction then that's primarily what this would be intended for. Leave reinforcements sticking up out of the floor when you cast the foundation floor. This be a typical four inch slab or six inch slab? Yes at least four inch slab that's minimum that more codes go down and in fact for this masonry shelter anytime we have the weight of concrete or masonry it's recommended that the slab be thickened or there be a footing under it so this shows a thickened slab and then leave reinforcements sticking out of there to anchor the shelter build a conventional concrete block or now insulating concrete forms are used as well for the construction then upon completion of the walls put a reinforcing bar into each cell and fill that cell with concrete then the reinforcement over to form the reinforcement for the ceiling and put a concrete ceiling on it. So that's a poured concrete ceiling? Yes sir and the ceiling must also be able to repel the falling debris in this case because some of the debris is lifted very high in the air and dropped so this is simply one of the techniques and one of the strategies for building a residential shelter and it is I think suited best for or suited best suited for new construction for retrofit. This is not really suitable because you would essentially have to clear the area so if we have an existing stud wall construction then another strategy would be used for that. For existing construction we would recommend several others this one is probably the most suitable for if you have stud wall construction we would recommend double studs and double plates both top and bottom but this uses simply two layers of three-quarter inch plywood for the structure getting the structural integrity and then a sheet of metal on the inside to provide the resistance to be on the inside of the room. Yes sir and so in this concept if you could get at it from the inside as you normally would be able to do in a closet or a pantry without tearing things up too much then you could strip it from the inside add the plywood and the steel and tie it all together before we add the plywood or the steel we would want to anchor the lower plate to the floor and then of course you have to pay attention that the ceiling built probably in the same way is firmly attached to the walls would be some sort of a joist hanger that would tie that. That's one strategy yes and then the walls must be tied together too because with the wind forces the extreme wind forces pushing on here there's a tendency for it to collapse so the shear walls must be able to carry the forces and the door is critical for wind loads because they must carry the same loads that the walls see and those forces can be either inward or outward depending upon the direction of the wind and that's not an easy thing to do to hold that kind of wind pressure with a door this is a one that that utilizes concrete and again we would use the plywood to get the structural integrity use double studs but this just utilizes concrete block for solid four inch concrete block that stacked in there this is not really that suitable for retrofit either because you have some sizing problems the stud spacing is not as good but for a person who does not wish to use poured in place concrete yet wants to use this basic concept that's that's one way to do it another concept for retrofit with this one uses poured in place concrete and we found that you can even use lightweight concrete there but there we add a layer of welded wire expanded metal on the inside and then the plywood to get the structural integrity here there's a tendency for the the debris to simply knock out a cone like a you see in a windshield a damaged windshield so this expanded metal would essentially arrest that and keep it from some from going on through also the new construction this one would work well in new construction it simply leaves a space between two layers of brick and fill that with reinforced concrete this is a little more expensive and requires of course a mason to do the brickwork the benefit of it is that you have finished wall on both sides that probably would match the masonry and the rest of the house we can use metal doors if the skins of the metal door or 14 gauge or thicker then it does not need modification to resist the fine when born debris if it's lighter in weight than that then we have to supplement it with a steel plate and screw a steel plate to it furthermore the hardware is critical because we can find no single latch that will carry the wind forces or the debris impacts so we recommend total of three closure mechanisms they can be sliding bolts but we would prefer dead bolts that can be operated from either side so that no one locks themselves in I was and I wanted to say for him and this is it you can tell by these walls there's 12 inches of concrete here 12 inches concrete here the roof is 8 inches it's all poured concrete one thing that I didn't think of the contractor did was the door they said to be sure and have a door that opens inward so you don't have to worry I mean if that bathroom had been full of stuff we still could have got out we still wouldn't have been trapped because the door opened this way we don't have to worry about the door being blocked so you get two pieces of three-quarter inch laminated plywood and in the the inside sheathing cover is 14 gauge steel and of course it's all screwed together and glued together and it's all tied in you have to put the the light bolts in about every four to six inches as you can see in these whole the walls in the ceiling are done this way the Texas Tech University ran a impact test on this thing and they had it all monitored and engineered and they fired a two before through the wall at 100 miles an hour and this was all tested and verified and I used my own test on it in that I went to the firing range and I got my 45 out and from about 15 to 20 feet I fired a bullet through this thing as you can see it went in here and it did not come out on this side it did make a little bit of a dent in the steel but it didn't go through obviously the cars were in the garage but there is no longer a garage back here this is the living room it's just you can't we haven't been able to get anything out of it it was probably done in the kitchen area this is the guest bathroom in here this is one of the closets and I've been pretty bathroom and this is the closet I went with the the inside closet as opposed to a cellar mostly because I didn't want some we had to go outside the storm sellers tend to leak we were trapped one time years ago a neighbors couldn't get from under their carport to the cellar because a softball size hail so I mean there something outside is is just more dangerous I wanted something plus the idea of the closet it's usable I mean I use it every day you know it it's that's my closet so it's a room that that gets a lot of use regardless of whether you're using it for a storm cellar or not this is the outside two walls of the safe room of the room addition that we did as you can see up here there's the concrete roof it's eight inches thick these walls are virtually other than the dirt and debris are unmoved why it happened that way even on down past the safe room which comes to here I can't explain why it stood to the West down that wall I can't explain why the wall stood there's a lot of wall standing in this house compared to the other homes in the area the best we can figure is that this safe room protected the whole house when the power went off I just dumped up slam the door locked it and within minutes it was here it was here and you knew when it got here it announced itself very good probably not more than five minutes total all of this was was done in five minutes I mean just the total total destruction took five minutes even though you build this room for this reason we just never thought of you know nobody can ever imagine something like this happening and we should have had flush lights in here and didn't we it ended up we were okay because it was still light outside once the tornado passed if it had been later at night we would have been in real trouble because you couldn't you had no idea what you were walking on nails and wires and I mean it there was no way of knowing what you're gonna step on it's safe I mean this room didn't it didn't move it didn't rattle it didn't I mean it did just exactly what it was supposed to do in our next segment Michael Holligan the host of your new house reviews safe room construction supplies and the equipment you would want to keep in that kind of a room and he also shows us an alternative method for installing a safe area in the house Michael Holligan Homes has been a corporate partner with FEMA's project impact program for some time and this segment is one of several that addresses upgrading new and current construction for wind resistance there are 170 tornado days that account for over 800 confirmed tornadoes in the United States on average 20 of these tornadoes are labeled killers claiming about 90 lives per year and accounting for thousands of injured what can homeowners do to protect themselves now your first line of defense is at your home it's traditional to put a storm shelter out in the yard but who wants to run outside during a tornado FEMA has come up with some plans where you can actually build a storm shelter inside your house you can see underneath the staircase here where they've already put up a layer of steel and now the guys are put in plywood up against it according to plans that you can download off the internet FEMA is the federal emergency management agency it's the government body that's responsible for safety preparation for natural disasters FEMA's website is full of advice on how to prepare for any kind of natural disaster there's an entire section devoted to plans for storm shelters and safe rooms home builders can implement these designs in the construction of their new homes Ray Higgins of Jim Sexton Homes is such a builder so Ray you've got your piece of steel on the exterior here and then a couple pieces of plywood and then one on the interior yes that's correct the the steel is 14 gauge plywood is three-quarter inch two layers and this will go on the exterior with a single layer of three-quarter inch plywood on the interior of your structure and that's according to the FEMA plans and what type of wind will that take how much that'll handle 250 miles an hour so it's it's a sturdy structure so that could be a big tornado and I'll stand up yes I noticed over here that you did go ahead and bolt our bottom plates of the wall down to the foundation and then you put straps holding the bottom plate to the studs that's correct we've got half inch J bolts and the metal tie down straps to tie the wall down to the double plate so not only should it not burst through the wall but it shouldn't rip the room off the foundation and then you put it underneath the staircase that's gonna add some strength as well and exactly we don't have an air cannon here to sheet studs at it a hundred miles an hour but you want to take a few wax at it and try see how strong it is compared to a normal room yeah that should be plenty strong you still got another piece of plywood put on the exterior don't you right so that'll give you an idea how strong the the structure is going to be now I hear you're putting a different type of shelter in another part of the house sure let's go to the garage okay let's take a look break here's another shelter in the garage we're building it's by a tornado shelters and closures I tell you that it's something else this is a big boy this solid steel hey Dave how you doing good good tell me what is this without a besides still what's this is a it's made out of a three-and-a-half inch tube still five sixteen cents thick with a half inch polycarbonate skin on it state-of-the-art material and if you're in a tornado this would be like watching it on TV you can see it come right up to your room yes you could yeah one of the things we've done we use a healthy anchoring system with this we've got some heavy safety factors built into that area in the anchoring this design where it's certified a FEMA 320 but our design criteria we've beefed it up a lot more than that we can take some really heavy wind loads on this structure sure looks like it what goes up on top the same thing this is a panel design all the panels are typical all the connections are typical except the door and you would mount the same panel on the roof of it is a glass bulletproof this is not bullet resistant we can make it bullet resistant with some thicker materials so you could use this like a safe room so that breaks in your house just lock yourself inside they could see you but they couldn't get you that's right we have the dark panels also in case the homeowner didn't want to see things flying at them or coming at them so they have the option of going dark or the clear the nice thing about this panel design is you can go into an existing home and measure up a closet put it in the closet you can make a home office out of it change the colors so it doesn't have to be in the garage like no it doesn't have to be in the garage we typically would like to see them in the center of the home somewhere that's usually the safest area and because we really want the home order better get into it within 20 or 30 seconds anywhere from in the house and bolted together like this it should be plenty strong oh it's the wind loads it can take are a lot more than 250 miles an hour I guess the biggest question would be the glass if you guys tested that yeah we were Texas tech has done all of our testing we got some footage of that glad to show you now they did the FEMA 320 test which is a 15 pound 2 by 4 at 100 miles an hour so Dave is that what the glass looks like after a tornado yeah it's a 15 pound 2 by 4 at 100 miles an hour well didn't crack the glass at all did it no just made an impression sure it in we don't have the air can in here but why don't you take our unofficial sledge test to it sure see how it holds up wow takes a big hit doesn't really do anything to it scooted it back a little bit it's not bolted down and that's heavy so I mean you're really hitting it the total unit's about 4500 pounds yeah it looks like it can take a tornado now if you're ever caught in a tornado even if you're in a shelter there are a few basic supplies that you're gonna have to have let's take a look you need to have some place to store a little bit of food preferably dry food that won't spoil especially things like peanuts make sure that you have an emergency scanner so you can listen to what's going on with the weather a cell phone is always a good idea a flashlight plus enough extra batteries for everything you definitely need some fresh water wouldn't be a bad idea to have a conventional radio in there as well a first aid kit in case emergency does occur a blanket if you have to stay in there for a while and stay warm and a bucket and I won't really explain what that's for but if you've ever been camping you probably know what the bucket's for I guarantee if you're inside watching a tornado tear your house apart around you you'll want that bucket if you like more information on how to prepare for a tornado contact us on the internet at michaelholligan.com we've heard in two of these segments about the testing and research at texas tech let's return to the wind research engineering center and take a look at those tests and get some more information on wind resistance a number of instances some small portion typically an interior room a closet a bathroom a pantry would remain standing even if the house was totally destroyed so the idea occurred to us rather early in the 70s that if we exerted some effort toward further stiffening and hardening that small room then we could provide a very high degree of occupant protection with relatively small costs so that really was the birth of the concept of the above ground storm shelter what we have observed is that the most common piece of debris that we see is a two by four and generally speaking again about a 14 foot two by four which depending upon the kind of material the as weighs roughly 15 pounds is what we see the most of simply because of the the extent that they're used in construction when we first got into this business there was a lot of lure and myth there there were reports in the literature about wind speeds in tornadoes the speed of sound and seven 800 miles per hour and all kinds of strange details of the effects of those extreme winds so we found a little substantive in the literature about wind speeds in tornadoes so one of the earliest contributions here I believe was working with scientists meteorologists in particular arriving at realistic wind speeds for tornadoes it's not sensible to try to prevent damage in the worst case scenario you're going to have some damage you can reduce the damage by paying close attention to connections in that building and trying to hold it together because most of the wind damage occurs at wind speeds say well below 200 much of it below 150 miles per hour and we can prevent that major damage we think the worst wind speeds we've seen are 200 or below 200 and we're designing for 250 so there again is a margin of safety this then which is again is a two by four stud construction we would probably put a vapor barrier of some type and then either plywood or a an oriented strand board or something to which we could attach the exterior siding so this with three-quarter inch plywood here is is uh as strong or stronger than we would find in considerable number of house constructions and this will will not nearly withstand the debris impacts probably I don't know for sure but I think a two by four traveling at 40 miles per hour would probably pierce this whereas we're seeking a hundred this is the behavior we see when the missile perforates it simply punches a hole in the wall section in this case the the end of the missile was hardly damaged blunted a little bit and the missile would simply have kept on going at it not hit the end of the laboratory but finally when it hit the end of the lab the missile splintered what we desire to happen of course is that this wall section have the ability to absorb or arrest the energy of the missile and stop it or to reflect the energy of the missile back into the to itself to cause it to shatter as we'll see when we use a more massive wall section here this wall employs some reinforced concrete this is two courses of masonry with about four inch concrete layer between it that's reinforced so this has the mass and the hardness to reflect the energy of the missile back into the missile itself causing it to shatter as you see here so i think the secret is either to have reinforced concrete in place as we have here or to have metal that will give some and absorb the energy before it perforates this was simply a material that we tested for someone at a fiber reinforced plastic that performed successfully the missile impacted right here it stopped caused a little structural damage but that's of no concern once the shelter and once the wall section has repelled the missile then the damages of little consequence because it's saved the people inside i think when we assess the public benefits of keeping more people in place then we will find that the there is a substantial public benefit to the widespread use of shelters in hurricane regions the major reason for having a shelter in a tornado zone is is the peace of mind that it offers if one looks at the probability of being hit at a given location it's very small yet that's not very comforting when weather warnings are issued and and when you see the devastation caused by tornadoes i think the the best reason for having a shelter in a tornado zone is the peace of mind of knowing that a safe place is available and you can go about your normal living patterns feeling that the safest place for you to be is at home at the end of the segment on safe room testing you saw the results from tests performed on fiberglass wall materials it's a relatively new construction material in homes the folks at your new house and steve eastley toured a plant where these goods are manufactured and we've got that segment for you did you know that they now make wall sheeting materials for the home that can actually withstand the impact of a bullet well today we're in weco texas and we're going to show you how bullet resistant wall panels are made it takes a lot of muscle and patience to make a wall panel that will stop a bullet they call this paneling armor core and at the weco composites a four-man team produce about 16 panels a day enough to cover the walls of an average bedroom armor cores made from layer upon layer of especially coated fiberglass cloth compressed together under a tremendous amount of heat and pressure thickness of the panel depends upon the caliber of bullet you want to stop Wayne you make four different thicknesses of this bullet resistant material why steve we are trying to stop four different weapons here level one armor core level one is a five six inch thick product that's designed to stop a nine millimeter round that looks exactly like this here you've got three shots per one square foot panel and you can see that we defeated or stopped the energy of the bullet it's just humped up there but the bullet's in there that's correct the bullet is locked inside the panel level two is designed to stop a 357 magnum which is around just exactly like that that's a much heavier bigger bullet correct a little thicker panel and again you can see that three rounds per this one square foot were stopped and contained within the panel okay level three armor core level three is a product that's designed to defeat or stop a 44 magnum round which is a bullet exactly like this as much heavier much heavier and here we have two shots per one square foot good example of how the product absorbs or defeats the energy of the bullet by delamination process we call it controlled delamination big hump here that's correct big hump but it's amazing that this thin material can stop a bullet that big correct here you have a product we call armor core level four and it's heavy that is very heavy almost 14 pounds per square foot here you've got a 300 wind mag high-powered 30 caliber rifle now this would be used for what well most common application for level four is in rural situations where you have a home that's concerned about taking stray rounds from deer hunters or an adjacent shooting range I see and this stopped the bullet as well the company has its own indoor gun range to ensure that the panels are not only bullet resistant but ricochet resistant as well so when you shot this target three times with a 357 magnum is that right that's correct Steve and let's go ahead and open this and get the panel out see what we got as you can see three rounds of 357 magnum let's take a look at the back side what you have here Steve is a perfect example of how the bullet right there as you can see has been defeated and contained within the fibers of the panel so let's pass the test it passed the test no no penetration it's locked within the fibers and this was probably at about 1350 feet per second wow it takes nearly two hours to produce a single panel and the time the fiberglass is stretched to the trimming of the rough edges well Wayne this looks like the same material that they make fiberglass boats out of that's correct Steve woven roving fiberglass is used to make a lot of different products what we have here in making these ballistic panels is the fiberglass is being pulled through a resin bath by this impregnating machine here it goes between two squeeze rollers that are squeezing out excessive resin making sure that the glass is completely wetted out then the fiberglass is received on this end onto these call sheets and we'll continue to pull just enough glass to obtain a desired level of ballistic resistance now the resin is basically the binder that holds all this together and hardens right that's correct the resin is the binder that is allows all the plies to be squeezed and held together now the more plies the more bullet resistive the panel is that's correct so what happens after it leaves here from this stage after they pulled out the number of plies they need this lift table will bring it over and load it into a hydraulic press here where we'll press it a temperature of probably in excess of 150 degrees for a period of roughly an hour at at least 1500 pounds per square inch one hour later the panel is removed from the press hard as a rock and bullet resistant so wayne after the panels come out of the press they've cooled down they come over here but they sure look rough right steve at this point we bring them over to this saw it's 16 inch diamond saw that's that's a wet saw we trim it down to whatever size our customers wanting four by eight and three by eight well that's the four by eight sheet here right exactly this is a four by eight sheet of level two armor core designed to defeat a 357 magnum this is about three eighths of an inch thick it's three eighths of an inch thick weighs approximately 137 pounds now how do i cut this in a field it's a good question steve if you're in a field situation a carpenter can field cut it down to any net size using a skill saw with a masonry diamond disc blade well you know i've seen pictures of hurricanes and tornadoes where they've actually sent pieces of wood flying through trees and homes this looks like it'd be a really good material as a storm resistant panel steve just recently we were tested by the wind engineering department at texas tech university in cooperation with thema as it turns out these panels are excellent to resist and defeat the energy of a two by four that might be propelled by an f five tornado traveling in excess of a hundred miles per hour wow well if i were ever building a home in storm country i'd definitely consider using this four by eight sheet of level three armor core cost about four hundred twenty five dollars and that means if you wanted to build a 10 by 12 bullet resistant room it would cost more than four thousand dollars certainly an option for the homeowner with a height need for security you've had a chance to look at the materials and criteria for building safe rooms now let's go to the internet and check out some of the resources that we've talked about today at www fema.gov site this is the fema web page project impact you see that we've got a lead stories all through the page here if we want to find out specifically about safe rooms we're going to go in through mitigation and prevention when we go to mitigation and prevention you see we have a link here to tornado safe rooms and if we go into that one get some sound effects here but you'll notice here that we have a page that talks about taking shelter from the storm uh we have safe room events funding some of the initiatives some of the projects mitigation today we looked at the building performance assessment team this will describe the team what they do there you notice that there are several links here one is to the residential safe rooms new expanded second edition this is the booklet that describes fema 320 and talks about the construction plans and cost estimates for putting in an above ground shelter you can get this by contacting the folks if you just click on this expanded second edition it'll take you to the toll-free telephone phone number where you can go ahead and get that book sent to you they talk about some of the concrete possibilities here this is the portland cement association another one of the corporate partners with fema they're working on some possibilities and then we go to the texas tech university wind engineering research center we're going to head on over to that now we've there's still quite a bit of information on the website here at fema you'll notice when you come over to the wind site you get their address you're leaving the fema website this is actually the easiest way to get to texas tech we come forward again and we're going to be at the texas tech wind site this is the wind engineering research center and where i really wanted to take you on this was protecting the family they have a you notice we've got quite a few menus here and one of these is protecting your family how do you protect your family this has some terrific information in it on protecting your family what to do different sites you can go to they reference back the tornado and hurricane tips from the federal emergency management agency they talk about the american red cross here we have a website on in residence shelter what do you do at home if you're at the mall if you're in the car at a ballgame in fact we can kind of go forward here and take a look at that if you go to tornado safety tips you notice they talk about what you do at home at school in your car at a ballgamer at the mall now if we just come down here you notice at home you have a plan monitor the weather and in residence shelter again although a full basement do so if you have an outside shelter and we talked a little bit about that in some of our segments today get out as soon as the warning sounds what you should do at school occupant protections for school there's another website right there what do you do if you're in your car monitoring driving an open country drive away from it sounds obvious but these kind of storms sometimes attract folks what to do at a ballgame so we've got some good information here even beyond looking in in residence shelters our next site is michael holligan dot com and we wanted to come to this site because here we've got some information for us on various materials you can use to harden up your house if you remember we talked about hardening your house today if you're a nascar fan you may want to come up here to team 25 michael holligan's nascar racing team they have daily updates on that and even if they haven't had a particularly good race they're pretty upfront about what happened what i want to do is come down here on the second page i'm into the television page here and you'll notice that here we have summaries of all the segments for this week's programming remember that michael holligan's your new house is shown on the discovery channel and you can check your local cable listing your satellite time up here you can see you can either go ahead to the next week see what's coming up or go back to previous weeks rather than searching through all that what we've done is we've typed in tornado as a keyword search and when we go forward from that you'll notice that we've got all of the segments that are related in some way to hurricanes or tornadoes actually you get both in here brick exteriors here's the bulletproof paneling segment that we've already taken a look at today here are some sites on this is from the framing program framing a house this has to deal with tying the frame down to the foundation stormproofing your home here's a segment here on tie downs and i think that's the segment that was actually shot in hawaii so if you're looking for some good shots of hawaii you might want to go there here's a tornado shelters you notice here's the opening one of the ones that we actually looked at here and let's head on over to this as an example here in the tornado shelters page this is segment 5051 you can ask michael questions you can join a discussion group here are the tools that you're going to need and you notice this is what we talked about earlier flashlights the bucket the radio the scanner the tornado shelter the first aid kit here we look at the featured product this is the tornado shelter we actually looked at and if you want some information about that you here's the size here's the price you can actually order it here on the website talks about the design what it is where it goes all of these sites and others as you go through are a good way to find out more information about protecting yourself and your family in high wind storms you will have noticed a bit of blank space between the segments on our broadcast learning again programs are developed as teaching tools therefore we've separated the host from the program elements so you can queue the tapes comfortably the segments in this program can be used for presentations to builders and homeowners who might consider adding safe rooms to their structures as well as the public officials who might support safe room construction special thanks for today's program go to tim hickey the executive producer of your new house and patty peterson from the discovery channel you know as michael holligan said in his opening windstorms are dangerous but we can fight back on behalf of the staff here at enet i'm ken stewart thanks for watching