Discovery Channel Canada recently spent a day at the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to film a segment on Bob Falk’s tornado safe room research. Falk, a research general engineer at FPL, is developing plans for a do-it-yourself tornado safe room made from commodity lumber. His research, which involves shooting 2×4 lumber from an air cannon at 100 mph, was featured on the show Daily Planet and the results are a blast.

See for yourself at http://www.discovery.ca/Video?vid=592208

FPL engineer Bob Falk talks tornado safe rooms with the Discovery Channel. (Click photo for video clip.)

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