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[Howard]

I think the idea is, since we are talking emergency relief and assuming that someone
is bringing said relief on a truck or by airplane, that the tubes or bags would be
easy to provide in large quantity and since the recipients have earth or at least
rock to fill them with it seems emergency shelter of that sort would be a very good
idea.  Bricks on the other hand I find much more amusing since they would be very
heavy to ship even in small quantity and air dropping, of course, a bit risky for
those trying to catch enough for a shelter.

Darel Henman wrote:

> I think its amusing that they think that those bags used for earth bag
> construction would be
> around in an emergency.  I can see bricks being available, but not the
> long tube bags they use.
>
> Perhaps pillow cases?
>
> > They show several people stacking and filling the bags, making a door
> > and pounding the walls with a simple brick ( assumedly the only tool one
> > might have in an emergency) to align them.
>
> A good canvas tent would be faster in an emergency....   Just rambling
> here..
>
> Darel

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