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1 posted on 08/24/2011 7:08:09 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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I don’t know the answer but I think it is a fascinating question. I had actually wondered if one story homes (like Ranch styles) don’t do better than two story homes (like Colonials)?


2 posted on 08/24/2011 7:11:52 AM PDT by momtothree
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Best structure is wood frame...swings and sways but stay up.
Worst is stone or brick.
Too many variables with logs. Two story, falling beams, and the way logs are joined. Something small would probably be OK.
I grew up in California. Log house sounds kind of scary to me.


3 posted on 08/24/2011 7:13:58 AM PDT by WestwardHo
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VIDEO: Blockhaus Erdbeben log home earthquake test

The house will do fine. The limiting factors will be the stability of the foundation.

4 posted on 08/24/2011 7:16:43 AM PDT by Polybius (Defeating Obama is Priority Number One)
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Sounds like Lincoln Log structures. They don’t hold up to much, except weather.


5 posted on 08/24/2011 7:16:43 AM PDT by madison10
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A brief video about one family’s experience with a Heritage Log Home during Hurricane Rita.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBC0f9QuJc

My wife and I plan on building a log home in the near future.


6 posted on 08/24/2011 7:17:12 AM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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So let me see if I got this right:

American dollars were spent on a marxist style statue, built in a communist country, with zero racial diversity where citizenship for immigrants is quite literally based on race.

And it’s going to be publicly displayed in our capital?

This is a good idea how?


8 posted on 08/24/2011 7:20:27 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("Cut the Crap and Balance!" -- Governor Sarah Palin , Friday August 12 2011, Iowa State Fair)
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"We had no supply chain disruptions following the earthquake." a company spokesman said.

9 posted on 08/24/2011 7:20:43 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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better than with forest fires, I’d imagine.


13 posted on 08/24/2011 7:23:16 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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The construction method would dictate the resistance to earthquake. There are hundreds of old log cabins still standing. I suspect some have fallen before they were finished. I would try the search function to find official comparisons.
14 posted on 08/24/2011 7:24:22 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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Good question. 25 years ago, a friend and I built a log cabin on Lake Anna (not far from yesterday’s epicenter) waterfront property. Just spoke with him. Everything’s copacetic.


23 posted on 08/24/2011 7:37:25 AM PDT by Holen1 (Chesapeake Bay seasoning. "I put that **** on everything.")
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Does a log home falling apart in an earthquake make a noise if no one is left alive in the rubble?
24 posted on 08/24/2011 7:38:11 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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Bookmark.


38 posted on 08/24/2011 7:56:17 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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I don’t think that they held up very well in the New Madrid quake of 1811.


44 posted on 08/24/2011 8:05:59 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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Mine came through unscathed.


51 posted on 08/24/2011 10:07:45 AM PDT by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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