long term shelter

[RoConroy@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/2/2005 8:57:20 PM Central Standard Time, 
jmgoldma at dwx.com writes:
This is interesting Dick.  Steve Miller was perfecting dome
construction using sheets of plywood, a similar concept.
  One question I had though - corrugated steel is often used for
simple quonsets. A dome would have greater footprint area for the
quantity of steel used, than a quonset, but are there any other
advantages?
    In the US we could just use screws to join the panels, even put
sealer putty on the edges like they use in grain bins to make them
somewhat air tight.  What do you figure using in remote areas?  I know
there are some adhesives available now that are so strong they are now
used to join panels on semi truck boxes, replacing rivets.  Maybe a
few cans of that?
   Dan,
        If you cut the lightweight corrugugated metal sheeting, that can be 
found at Home Depot, into 12" wide sheets, they can be screwed to dome 
sheathing in the same manner as composite shingles are laid on domes.  They are so 
thin, that they flex against the grain of the corrugation.  By overlapping the 
edges, no adhesives should be required to prevent leakage, because the 
corrugation creates an uphill barrier against water migration.
     The head of the UN relief agency for Pakistan said they are discussing 
pulling out because they ran out of money.  He was on a discussion program on 
public television Wednesday night.  He said there are 15,000 remote villages 
with no passable road network.  Living throughout the winter in the high 
mountain terrain, without shelter, will be problematic for the 3 million survivors. 
     People are selling their own body parts, such as an eye or single 
kidney, to raise money to live on, but according to an Australian news report, some 
are selling their children into prostitution to raise money.  One group was 
caught taking body parts out of the dead to sell as replacement organs.
      Don't get me wrong, I am not overly concerned about the adults, but the 
problems with the children is another matter.  If you notice, disaster areas, 
such as Sri Lanka, and North West Pakistan, seem to be radical Muslim 
strongholds.  I am not too concerned about there being a few less gun toting radicals 
out there, but it would be nice if the children could be helped.  Keep in 
mind that the worst hit of Katrina was New Orleans, a city and state with a long 
record of corruption, which seemed to live off high priced beer, sold by the 
drink, bare breasted women, prostitution, and a livelyhood of living of the 
dead, by parading up and down in the streets in honor of the dying.  
 Bob