[TheForge] yurt glorified tent ( was Re: Is anyone on-line ? OT: Washed away? )

[terry l. ridder]

hello bruce;

what is needed is a basic yurt. which is as you said a glorified tent.
with proper help can be erected in one to two days and taken down in the
same number of days. the the advanced warnings now available plenty of
time to take down the yurt and move to higher ground.

On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Bruce . wrote:

> Don't need antigravity.  Use wheels.  Modular homes, each section of
> which is mobile.  This would be ONE sort of construction that might
> actually make sense in areas of risk -- with the proviso that they
> WILL be moved before storms, etc., come through.  Expensive, but all
> such construction is expensive.
>
> Meanwhile, I have an interesting observation:  Sand dunes WORKED in
> Ocean Grove and Bradley Beach.  The first line of houses behind the
> beach -- about 100 feet behind the boardwalk and maybe 150 feet behind
> the dunes -- still stands with little obvious damage.  There WAS
> flooding, some of it pretty bad, but the force of the surge was broken
> by the dunes.
>
> (I cant GET to some other communities to check on them, but IIRC,
> Belmar and Spring Lake didn't have much in the way of dunes.  (Spring
> lake had low sand "bluffs" behind the ferro-concrete board walk.  That
> boardwalk always takes a beating, and photos I've seen show it GONE
> this time.)
>
> Furthermore, at the north end of Ocean Grove, there's a beach access
> point (between board walk and beach, through the dunes) with some sort
> of woven mat -- not very thick or tight -- laid over the sand.  This
> mat is largely intact and apparently functioned like dune grass on the
> dunes.
>
> In other words, the way to resist storms is to have flexibility in the
> structure.  Imagine a beach home that is effectively a glorified tent.
> That could be lovely for summer use, and could be designed to be
> removable before a storm.  Maybe it could consist of some central
> struts holding up the roof, with cables from those to give some
> structure to roof and walls.  It could even be designed to retain
> warmth for cold-weather use.  Properly designed, I assert such a
> structure might better resist a storm than a standard wood-framed
> house.
>

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terry l. ridder ><>