HURRICANE PROOF BUILDINGS

Two comments.

1. If I lived in hurricane country, I'd have at least one Gunnite-type
quonset hut to put my valuables in and hide in.

2. I've seen safe rooms built out of wood, but IIRC, they were made of two
sheets of 1 and and eighth plywood laminated together.



"Juan Jimenez" wrote in message
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"Vaughn" wrote in
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Wood is an amazing building material. A properly designed wooden
structure will stand up to a hurricane just as well as a properly
designed concrete structure.

Sorry, but I won't buy that for one second. Concrete doesn't blow out when
a window gives way and air pressure builds up inside the house, not at
hurricane speed winds. Safe rooms built inside wooden homes in tornado
alley are not build out of wood -- they are built out of reinforced
concrete.

Did you know that they even make airplanes out of wood?
(aviation content)

Sure, and very few people find them suitable for permanent habitation.

"Ken Finney" wrote in
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Two comments.

1. If I lived in hurricane country, I'd have at least one
Gunnite-type quonset hut to put my valuables in and hide in.

Oh, that explains it. Well, I was born and live in hurricane country (the
Caribbean) and very few people here have quonset huts to hide in. We just
stay indoors.

2. I've seen safe rooms built out of wood, but IIRC, they were made
of two sheets of 1 and and eighth plywood laminated together.

I've seen thicker wood complete run through by a flying piece of debris,
but never concrete.

Juan Jimenez wrote:

"Ken Finney" wrote in
:


Two comments.

1. If I lived in hurricane country, I'd have at least one
Gunnite-type quonset hut to put my valuables in and hide in.


Oh, that explains it. Well, I was born and live in hurricane country (the
Caribbean) and very few people here have quonset huts to hide in. We just
stay indoors.


2. I've seen safe rooms built out of wood, but IIRC, they were made
of two sheets of 1 and and eighth plywood laminated together.


I've seen thicker wood complete run through by a flying piece of debris,
but never concrete.


Comparing 2" of wood to 6" or more of concrete is simply dumb. It is
easy to poke a hole through concrete that is only 2" thick ... I've done
it several times.


Matt

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:17:26 GMT, "Ken Finney"
wrote:


1. If I lived in hurricane country, I'd have at least one Gunnite-type
quonset hut to put my valuables in and hide in.

Yup, quonset huts do good in the wind. Four winters ago the small
rural fishing town in Alaska where I lived was hit by a typhoon and
hurricane force winds were measured in the small boat harbor. Trees
went down all over town (fortunately most of the power lines were
underground), and many people lost roofs. One building in particular
literally exploded and its roof was carried away, out over the inlet,
never to be seen again. Our commercial buildings consisted of a
large, wood framed quonset hut and a timber framed shop and adjoining
warehouse built with 12x12 timbers (my dad didn't know the meaning of
the word overkill). Our total damage consisted of a couple chimney
caps that got blown off. One was rusted out and needed replacement
anyway, and the other, after the stoorm ended I picked it up off the
ground and put it back where it belonged. I felt kind of bad
considering the damage some of our friends suffered but oh well.


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