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Article #6125Re: Tornado Proof Homes
From: Wen-King Su
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:00
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In a previous article lacraft@my-deja.com writes: : ;Bet they're not flood proof. Lots of water would accompany a hurricane :in Florida (where this contractor is). Also, fire would burn the inside ;furred walls- I assume it could get hot enough to damage the concrete. :CMU is actually a common residential building method in Florida, to ;discourage termites I think. : ;In article <7m040m$jdp$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, : d000442c@dc.seflin.org wrote: ;> Homebuyers, :> ;> Check out this intriguing Web site - They claim to provide :> a concrete fortified home construction method proven to ;> resist terrifying natural disasters such as hurricanes :> and tornadoes: Hmm. To protect against both tornados and flood, I guess we can build a concrete Ark. :-) There are actually quite a few boats made of concrete.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111c3f,7e882c8b4c56d78d X-Google-Attributes: gid111c3f,public X-Google-Thread: 10db0a,7e882c8b4c56d78d X-Google-Attributes: gid10db0a,public X-Google-Thread: 1159e3,7e882c8b4c56d78d X-Google-Attributes: gid1159e3,public X-Google-Thread: 108e13,7e882c8b4c56d78d X-Google-Attributes: gid108e13,public From: wen-king@myri.com (Wen-King Su) Subject: Re: Tornado Proof Homes Date: 1999/07/10 Message-ID: <7m8bk7$ild@neptune.myri.com> X-Deja-AN: 499566708 References: <7m6a03$r2d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Myricom Inc. Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,alt.building.realestate,alt.home.repair,ca.earthquakes