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These tests? >> the fema guidelines require wind pressures for the storm come from a 250-mile-per-hour ground speed tornado and thats speed on the ground and that the typical debris generated by that storm would be a wooden 2x4 thats 15 pounds and propelled at 100 miles an hour. >> so you recreate those conditions in a lab using these commercially available buildings. do you feel like people who are marketing these -- obviously this is a public safety issue, also a business. when you are finding...

For being with us tonight. >> youre very welcome, rachel. >> you are an expert on these things and you work in this field and i do not. let me first ask you if in terms of explaining safe rooms and how they have functioned in the past and how towns rely on them, is that basically your understanding? >> safe rooms certainly will if theyre tested, safe rooms will certainly protect you from these kinds of storms no doubt. >> what kind of wind speeds can structures withstand? how do you test them an...

Mr. tanner, thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> youre very welcome, rachel. >> you are an expert on these things and you work in this field and i do not. let me first ask you if in terms of explaining safe rooms and how they have functioned in the past and how towns rely on them, is that basically your understanding? >> safe rooms certainly will if theyre tested, safe rooms will certainly protect you from these kinds of storms no doubt. >> what kind of wind speeds can structures wi...