Greetings,

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 02:15 -0400, Richard Ginn wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:55 AM, [email protected]
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>         We had four flood in the storm. Mostly ok now but what can one
>         do to prevent flooding? Tape seams along tarp did not like the
>         water.
> 
> In theory, a 1-piece seamless waterproof tarp or plastic sheet (6 mil
> or more?) covering the bottom and up the sides about a foot, taped to
> the walls or even pegged into the walls might do the trick.  Or maybe
> that would all float away if the water got deep enough.

Just because it seems obvious to me, but ... do you tape it on the
outside of the Hexayurt, or the inside of the Hexayurt?  For standard
yurt (ger) construction, we bucket on the inside, but it makes more
sense to me to bucket on the outside for a hexayurt.

> In practice, where do you get such a thing at BM?  Or any other
> emergency?

Flash floods happen.

Percival

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