[Cob] Flood resistance - NOT!

[paul]

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From: "Ocean Liff-Anderson" <ocean at woodfiredeatery.com>
To: "paul" <dotpaul at paulleblanc.net>
Cc: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Cob] Flood resistance - NOT!


> one of the cardinal rules with cob:  never build in a flood plain. 
> basically, flood is catastrophic for cob.   ianto has some great  "before 
> and after" shots of a beautiful, completed cob that he helped  build for 
> some folks in texas - who insisted it was a "hundred year  flood plain" - 
> turned out the year after the building was finished  was the hundred year 
> flood.  totally destroyed.
>

So, zero hope even with a little cement mixed in?  Even with "creative" 
plastering?



> don't do it.  of course, my restaurant's cob was is also in the  hundred 
> year flood plain.  and the last "big" flood was in 1970.  but  you never 
> know...

You guys have the Willamette river nearby, right?  It seemed to me that you 
had the elevation out at the road to avoid flooding, though.  I guess not.

Did you see this year's Mud Bog?