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Source: Tulsa World, Okla.儲存Oct. 16--You can spend $20,000 on a residential storm shelter, but how do you know you've not blown your cash on one that will just get blown away?The National Storm Shelter Association (nssa.cc) was formed in 2001 "to ensure the highest quality of manufactured and constructed storm shelters for protecting people from injury or loss of life from the effects of tornadoes" or high winds. The association is self-policing to maintain public confidence and respect for the storm shelter industry" and provides a Safe Room certificate of installation to attest safe rooms have been properly manufactured, tested and certified tornado-proof."For homeowners, there is really no other way to ensure their Safe Rooms will hold up," said Ann Patton, a founder and former director of Tulsa Project Impact, an effort "to create safer, more livable communities -- better equipped to survive natural disasters.""Also, in the city of Tulsa, there is a permitting process in the building code that says, in essence, if you are going to build a Safe Room (or storm shelter) it "must be constructed in accordance with national codes," said Patton. These include ICC-500, FEMA 320 and FEMA 361 -- codified in Tulsa city ordinances as Title 51 Section 423.1 (adopting the 2009 ICC International Building Code). 迷你倉efore any safe room or other storm shelter can be built in Tulsa, its plans must be inspected and a permit, for its construction, issued.NSSA brochure, "How Can You Discern Quality in a Storm Shelter?" is available at bit.ly/shelterpdf It offers "guidelines in quality assurance for storm shelters. Members of the NSSA have subjected their products to rigorous testing and evaluation to assure quality. They meet stringent quality considerations and pledge sound business practices." Area NSSA members are:1. Jim Giles Safe Rooms LLC, Tom Bennett, 2214 N. Industrial Road, Sapulpa, OK 74066; 918-639-8102 or fax 918-227-3948 -- tom@jimsafe.com or jimsafe.com2. New Day Tornado Shelters, Dirk DeRose, 6040 E. Tecumseh St., Tulsa, OK 74115; 918-277-3758 or fax 918-275-4897 -- dirkderose@aol.com or newdaytornadoshelters.com3. Tornado Alley Armor LLC, Leslie & Monty McGee, 9300 Broken Arrow Expressway Suite B, Tulsa, OK 74145; 855-552-7667 or sales@tornadoalleyarmor.com or tornadoalleyarmor.com4. Concrete Shelters Inc. LLC, Kyle Ray, 1904 E. 137th Place, Glenpool, OK 74033; 918-260-5603 or fax 918-995-7354 -- kyle@concretesheltersinc.com or concretesheltersinc.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) Visit Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) at .tulsaworld.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage