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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1903176, member: 38849&quot;]In my mind, a safe room and a hiding-place for valuables are two completely different things.&nbsp; Nearly all of us could get by with two cubic feet of hiding-place; in fact, you want to leave some common coins in plain sight to distract the burglar -- take<i> those</i>, instead of searching for good stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>A safe room, on the other hand, has to withstand assault, severe weather, floods, and fires.&nbsp; A second-floor safe room should have emergency access to the attic or roof, which is tricky to do; a first-floor safe room should have access to the basement, if any.&nbsp; Again, difficult and expensive.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One way to design a safe room is to build a house with lots of odd angles (think, artistic) and offsets, where nobody can figure out which room backs up or stands adjacent to which other room (your builder <i>LOVES</i> this, it&#039;s an extra 5% worth of goofy client whims).</p><p><br /></p><p>The ideal safe room would seem to be long and narrow, not square, with its own stored food, water, weapons, and communications.&nbsp; But in my mind, it is not meant to be occupied more than one day, at most.&nbsp; Note there are radios and lamps that run for several hours after ten minutes of cranking -- Amazon sells a wide variety.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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