Problem: Article: Retrofitting an existing room in your home or business is the cheapest and simplest way to protect your loved ones from storms or intruders. While building or installing a prefabricated safe room can cost between $2500-$6000, you can retrofit an existing room for a thousand or less. Choose a room that is in the interior of the house with no windows or skylight, and no walls shared with the outdoors A large walk-in closet works well. A safe room needs a door that can withstand high winds or being kicked in by an intruder, and should ideally open inwards rather than outwards in case debris is stacked outside the room during a storm. Remove the existing door and doorjamb. Replace the doorjamb with a steel one, and reinforce the surrounding wood with steel angle iron (which will prevent the door from being kicked or blown in). Replace the door with a heavy, solid wood door (such as one sold as an exterior front door for a home) or with a heavy steel door. Mount it so that it opens inwards rather than out. You can choose if you want to use a traditional deadbolt or a keyless deadbolt. The keyless deadbolt has the advantage that you don't have to find the key in case of an emergency, but can be dangerous if you have small children in your household who may lock themselves inside. Before installing the new locks and doorknob, reinforce the wood around them by installing steel or brass strike plates, which you can purchase at most hardware stores. Install the locks so that the door locks from the inside. If it's a traditional deadbolt, be sure to make a copy of the key and keep the keys in two separate but easily accessible locations, where you can find them immediately in case of emergency. If you are adding the safe room to new construction, you can reinforce the walls and ceiling with concrete, chicken wire, or steel sheeting before adding dry wall and paint to the walls. If not, you will need to tear out the existing drywall to reinforce the walls. The most cost-effective way to reinforce the walls is by pouring concrete into the cavity between the 2x4s in the walls. Then, screw plywood or 1-1/8 oriented strand board to the 2x4s on either side. You can then cover this with drywall and paint. You can also screw steel sheeting to the 2x4s and cover with drywall and paint. You will need to use steel sheeting or chicken wire in the ceiling, which can be done from the attic if you're in a one-story home, or applied directly to the ceiling (less attractive, but chances are good no one will be looking at the ceiling of your closet safe room). If you want to create a more complicated or stand-alone structure, its important that it is up to code. If you don't have a lot of experience with construction, you can contact a contractor or local storm shelter company for help planning and installing your project. Ask around for recommendations of local contractors. Ask family or friends who have recently remodeled or done construction work, or contact the National Association of the Remodeling Industry or a local building inspector, who will be able to point you in the right direction.
Summary: Select your room to retrofit. Replace the door. Install locks. Reinforce the walls and ceiling. Contact a contractor for help.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you're in an open area, drop flat to the ground to evade gunfire as soon as you hear shots. Try to determine where the shots came from, and move out of the line of fire to the nearest available cover. Look for bushes, a brick wall, a ditch, or any other feature that puts you out of sight. If there's no cover within a two to three second sprint from your location, drop to the ground and crawl to cover. and contact emergency services. Once you've found cover or a relatively secure place, hide there, stay down, and don't move. Don't raise your head or peek out to see what's happening. If you have a cell phone, call emergency services when you believe you can safely do so. If you're hiding inside a car, stay down, as windows obviously offer no protection. If you're using a car as cover from shooting, do your best to get away from the area where the gas/petrol tank is situated, which is usually just ahead of the rear axle. Try to hide behind the engine block by one of the front wheels.

SUMMARY: Drop, then quickly move to better cover. Hide Hide near the engine block when using a car as a barricade.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: To help increase your grip strength, try incorporating exercises like hand extensions into your regular exercise routine. This exercise is not really a grip exercise, but it will strengthen the muscles that help to give you a strong grip. You can either use a thick rubber band (or multiple rubber bands) or get a professional tool that helps you perform this exercise. To use the rubber bands, pull the rubber band down over your hand so that it's resting near the base of your fingers. In a slow and controlled way, spread your fingers and thumbs out away from your palm. They should be pushing against the rubber band. Hold your fingers and thumbs as long as you can against the pressure of the rubber band. Repeat a few times on each hand. Another great exercise to try is by squeezing a hand gripper. You will need to get a gripper, which is a handheld grip exerciser that you squeeze with 1 hand at a time. Squeezing a gripper will help strengthen your grip by working the muscles in your hand. Hold on to a gripper in each hand or work 1 hand at a time. Wrap your entire hand around the handles. Make sure the grippers have a plastic coating to help make this exercise comfortable. Squeeze the handles so they are close together (this would typically open the gripper so it could be placed around a barbell). Hold this squeeze for as long as you can. Repeat a few reps with each hand. Another great exercise to strengthen the muscles in your palms are plate pinches. Grab a few conventional weighted plates to get started on this exercise. Place 1 or more 10 pound plates together with the smoother side facing out. Pinch or squeeze them together with your hands (thumb on 1 side and 4 fingers on the other side) and hold them as long as you can in the air. Keep the plates closer to the floor in case you drop 1. Also, do not hold them over your feet. Try to work up to being able to hold four 10 pound plates in each hand for at least 1 minute. Repeat two to three times if you can. If you have barbells that have a wider circumference than the standard barbells, these are a great tool to use to help improve your grip strength as well. Improving your grip strength with a fat or wide barbell is easy and simple to do. Grab 1 of these barbells with both hands and squeeze as tight as you can. Your fingers and thumbs should not be able to touch when your fist is clasped around the bar. To make this exercise more difficult, add plates to either side of the bar. Your goal should be to hold this bar for at least 1 minute and repeat for 1 or 2 more sets.
Summary:
Do hand extensions. Use a hand gripper. Incorporate plate pinches. Squeeze wide barbells.