SB: Re: Safe Rooms (was: SB: Steens on the run)

[billc_lists@greenbuilder.com]

>Glancing around our wooded retreat here, as prairie droughts get worse
>year after year, I've considered this as well.
>
>Frankly I can think of nothing better than a hole in the ground for the
>protection of meltables. A well-protected root cellar, something like that.
>

Ah, but then you have to think about the floodables too!  Says he who 
has a room full of electronics gear. Many of nature's "cleansing 
actions" involve large quantities of liquid.  My lot is fairly flat; 
if we sunk a hole in the ground, there's a fair possiblility that the 
water would come in faster in a catastrophic event than it could be 
removed.  I might consider it if I was able to run a drain line from 
the lowest point in the safe room (down hill, of course) to a point 
on the surface that's still well above the 500 or 1000 year flood 
level.  (we've had several "100 year" floods in these parts in the 
past 10 years).

(Let's see, "fire, flood, pestilence..." Ok, so what *do* we do about 
Rob Tom?  ;-)

-- 
Bill Christensen
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