I'd been thinking about the storm shelter/root cellar we had when I was a small child in Oklahoma. It was in our garage. Problem was, it
was leaky and always had water standing in it - I think we had a
high ground water table. I was actually afraid of it as a child - it
was creepy. But the idea, minus the water, is very appealing to me,
as one could access the shelter during a nasty storm without going outside into the storm. And, the space could do double duty for food storage. Of course, that would mean jack-hammering out some of the concrete floor in my garage, and excavating INSIDE a pre-existing building. I've never attempted anything like that, but I expect that the cost of doing it would be pretty high. Since putting the shelter in my garage is likely not an option, placing it as close to the house as possible would be my next choice.
My ground is pretty flat, Gene. But I suppose that if one dug into the ground a ways, the dirt from the hole could be used to cover the top of a shelter and create a little hill of sorts. I guess that would cut down, a little, on the depth of the needed excavation?
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