Building a shelter on the sand
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Enigma2

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 01:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Meridian:

My book "Survivor Shelters for Dummies" (am holding up the cover for the tv cameras now)
does not include the use of non-native materials.
Each chapter gives complete directions for a different type of shelter. Examples:

—The Andrew / an anti-bellum A-frame
(materials include bamboo, palm fronds and 4 stone corinthian columns)

—The Burton / a bauhaus bungalow
(materials include bamboo, palm fronds and a little steel and glass)

—The Trish / a tudor townhouse
(materials include bamboo, palm fronds and some stone carved ogee door frames and mantel surrounds)

And so forth. (for more information, buy the book) (am, again, holding it up for the tv cameras)

Rupertbear

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 03:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Enigma.....lmao, why did I never notice in all my years of lurkdom, how truly hysterically funny you are? lol lol lol :)

p.s I'm gonna have to ration my praise of your wit because everyone will become tired of me telling you you are such a funny man ;)

Meridian

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 05:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Enigma.

Don't forget "The Jon."

Enigma2

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 06:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Meridian:

The last chapter of my book –"Survival Shelters for Dummies" (now almost available via amazon or barnes & noble) covers subsidiary structures.

After discussing the function and –importantly– location of latrines, I have followed-up with explicit instructions for making sun-dried brick of local muds and straw-like materials (a free and easy-to-make building material which dates from the earliest Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures). Plans are included –in my book (available at most Z-rated bookstores)– for constructing the ultimate subsidiary survivor structure: "a brick s--t house"

Needmylifeback

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 06:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
But, building a shelter such as theirs on the sand ...in that rare, perhaps guided by the phases of the moon, 22' high tide....they then have a structure that they can fish from while they sit around and do nothing! LOL! :)


In previous Survivors...we've at least been shown each tribe trying to get food...like fishing when there was water involved....I don't believe we've seen the Morgan tribe attempting to gather food...but, maybe they have ...but it was funnier to show Osten tossing a coconut! :)

Snee

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 09:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
enigma, please consider writing 'surviving pirate pinheads...for dummies'. seems that jon guy is starting to bug people.

p.s. sign my copy too!

Trinity63

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 09:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wonder if they have all had malaria shots or medication because of all the biting insects like mosquitos etc..

Lorry

Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 10:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Snee: I noticed neither you nor I got any response about our request for signed copies... hmmmm rofl

Enigma2

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 09:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
To all of those waiting on the long lines for autographed copies of my new book: "Survior Shelters for Dummies" (now not quite on the New York Times best-seller list):

Signed copies will be available as soon as I remember my name.

Csnog

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 10:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They have to contend with an insect called "no-seeums" so they need to have their shelter where they can have a breeze. Tides are very low near the equator.

The water is located inland and so there are mosquitoes inland.

Building near the beach is not a bad idea but they need to get their bodies off the sand.

Meridian

Friday, October 03, 2003 - 11:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
We have to contend with a terrible insect called "nauseum" too. LOL

Catfat

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 10:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
So the waves are washing their shelter away. Told you so!!

Azriel

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 08:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It amazed me that Morgan was putting so much effort into keeping the water away instead of moving the damn shelter. DUH!

Foliage

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 08:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Have these Morganites never been on a beach! My 12 year old beach bum was screaming at the TV "move the shelter you can't win against the tide at full moon!"

yeesh

Seamonkey

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rupert will be rolling his eyes!

Pannie

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 09:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea, Catfat you were right-on weeks ago! Good observation and thanks for sharing with us!

It was soooo funny that they kept trying to build a SAND WALL. Hello?!? Foliage's 12 year old and Azriel have great advice for the Morgan's. Also, logs float (i.e. drift wood) and a sand 'wall' is really 1000s of tiny sand particles...not a wall. Even a rock jetty or a concrete wall does not stop a high tide or large waves.

Poor Rupert, he'll have to single-handedly cart the entire shelter up hill for them - after he spears scores of fish for them. LOL!

Tasia

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 09:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think those poor Morganites are in the wrong storyline... They are supposed to be living like Pirates, not some castle where they all lie around like royalty complaining, complete with a moat :)