Cob: the rest of the Flooded Cob story

[Ocean]

This turns out to be one of Ianto's favorite morality tales:

The person asked Ianto to build the house, but he said that they 
shouldn't build in the floodplain.  The person insisted, saying it was 
only a "hundred-year-flood".  So reluctantly Ianto helped them build a 
beautiful cob house, which Ianto still includes pictures of in his 
slideshows.  Well, the next year along came the hundred year flood!  
Away went the cob house!  Ianto sometimes includes the "after" pictures 
in his show, and it's not pretty.

Turns out I'm in a similar situation here with the restaurant!  We are 
in the Willamette River floodplain, and locals remember VW buses 
floating down Highway 99 back in the great flood of the 1970's.  But 
here we just have a garden wall which might fail, and which we can also 
rebuild even though it's 130 feet long.  Repairing the restaurant after 
a flood is another story!

Ocean


On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 06:21 PM, Charmaine R Taylor wrote:

> Apearantly someone (here in the U.S) built a cob home on a
> floodplain, and sure enough, it flooded a couple of years after
> completion.  Even with  four feet (a bit more than a meter) of
> standing water, it stood for almost four days before collapsing.
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>
> This was the cob demonstration bldg. I believe built in TX...not sure
> where, someone else may know. It was washed away in a big flood that
> year, and someone I spoke with ( a woman Dr. as I recall) had worked on
> it and had sent me  photos a few years ago.
>
> Ms. Charmaine  Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
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