indestructible. [ gunshot ] the weather channel put one safe room to the test by blasting it with a jet engine. these rooms are engineered for 250-mile-per-hour winds. every cell of the concrete block is reinforced with rebar, and that rebar goes from a separate footer system all the way up the walls, across the top of the ceiling, and then back down, and it s all tied together. if the whole house collapsed around it, the trusses fell in, the walls fell in, it is an entity unto itself with a separate footer system, a separate ceiling. and stronger materials can make a huge difference. think a cinder-block house is secure enough? the insurance institute for business and home safety test structures made both with common materials and stronger, reinforced materials. they actually build houses in a facility in the carolinas, and they wind-test them, and
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indestructible. [ gunshot ] the weather channel put one safe room to the test by blasting it with a jet engine. these rooms are engineered for 250-mile-per-hour winds. every cell of the concrete block is reinforced with rebar, and that rebar goes from a separate footer system all the way up the walls, across the top of the ceiling, and then back down, and it s all tied together. if the whole house collapsed around it, the trusses fell in, the walls fell in, it is an entity unto itself with a separate footer system, a separate ceiling. and stronger materials can make a huge difference. think a cinder-block house is secure enough? the insurance institute for business and home safety test structures made both with common materials and stronger, reinforced materials. they actually build houses in a facility in the carolinas, and they wind-test them, and
still a possibility that irene could be a category two when it moves into southern new jersey over the weekend, and now folks all up and down the east coast are doing what janice has advised which is prepare for the worst. emergency crews are checking out bridges, they re prepping evacuation routes, getting sandbags ready in case of nodding that may flooding that may come, and here is some reaction from up in massachusetts. obviously, every three hours we know more than we knew three hours ago, and we re just trying to stay on top of it. the forecast has put the fear in some people. you got enough batteries and propane? i hope for today and tomorrow, and i m supposed to be getting a truck either later tonight or tomorrow afternoon rig rick so what are some of the ways you can protect yourself from a hurricane this size? president and ceo of the insurance institute for business and home safety, we re glad that you re here because we ve got a lot of folks out there that are bus
them ri: od stuff, julie. president and ceo of the insurance institute for business and home safety. thanksgain thas ve muc nna:th reall resoted, didn t it? at julieust said abtone or two people not defti ther nature. th reallyits home. harris, of course, all of our views ve bn watcng is big story not only just here on the st coast,but there s implications also natnwide as our whole travel system could be affected by this. a lot going on. what are people sang? reporter: people are putting up eizip co z, jenna, to find out exalyhich areas will get hurt the mt. and oula geseally touched on a big issue that s on the chat right now, and that has to do with the inland impact of this. d, you know, people just want to know how far inland iit gointo go,so there putting up their zip codes which is a new trend i had not seen. get to it by going to foews.com anjueneath the top storon our home page is a