Diggin' a hole. A big hole. They got about a foot down and hit limestone. Yessssssss. Our cellar is 12,500 pounds of steel-reinforced concrete set in a bed of solid rock. I sleep better at night already.
Paul had to take down half of the fence on one side of the driveway so the semi could make it in.
Down she goes........
And there she is. The installer just piled the rocks and dirt back on top and now it has to settle. After it settles we can pick out the rocks (I'm thinking it's a perfect job for the kids!) and cover it with dirt. Everyone keeps telling me that I should plant flowers on it and around it, but I totally have a vision of our cellar mound covered in pink plastic flamingos.......Tater said that was pretty much a guarantee that our house would be put on CNN the next time a twister comes through.
Of course, the kids think it's just a fancy new underground playhouse.
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Thats pretty cool!
Not that is just cool. Paul doing all that - AND you have a SAFE SPOT.
I'm thinking of all the other uses... mind boggles.
Okay, a couple things.
First, Paul TOTALLY rocks. He just does.
Second, those are some seriously Gorgeous Kids!
So it just sits there sort of covered with dirt? Is is bolted down or something? Are there any spiders in there? Yet?
I've never seen one installed, before! I am not off to research on the internet to answer my own questions.
I'd just hide in there to scrapbook. Anyway, we use the basement around her and if things get REALLY bad, the crawlspace.
While it is a cool underground playhouse, it is also a nice place to store the Christmas tree and vinyl pool!
Courtney
Good for you and yours.
I am OH SO GLAD you have this storm cellar. You are the first person I think about when I hear tornadoes are headed our way. You know, because you always go hogging the spectacular weather, like the tornadoes and the floods and the ice storms, so they are all petered out (heh, heh, I said 'petered') by the time they get here to Missouri.
My entire family has basements to hide in. I can't imagine how freaked out I would be if we didn't have anywhere to go.
Too bad your cellar didn't get installed by the pool boys I had a couple summers ago.
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