Cob: Flooding questions

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 lightearth at onebox.com wrote:

[snip]
> knew a lot about the little building was that it would have probably
> stood and dried out again if it the water had been allowed to rush INTO
> the building, thereby equalizing the pressure.
>
> In this case the flood waters receded in a couple of days but the
> softening of the walls and the pressure were too much for it.
[snip]

Probably allowing water in to equalize the pressure would not have
helped and likely would have made things worse, since doing so would have
put the water in direct contact with both sides of the wall and caused it
to soften much faster.


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