A safer home/school to build
Posted by hanna on 5/22/2013, 2:14 am
Maybe it is time to reconsider the way we build.

Monolithic Dome Home Survives Missouri Tornado.  

Image: Morgan Home — This Monolithic Dome home has already successfully survived a devastating tornado. It’s a 40-foot-diameter dome with two bedrooms, one bath and a loft.  

An unpleasant surprise.
"I heard a very loud sound like thunder that had no intermission. It was just continuous," said Romain Morgan about her encounter with one of the many tornadoes that swept across Missouri and other states on May 4, 2003.

That afternoon, Missouri had been put on tornado watch, so Romain, together with her daughter, two granddaughters, their guests and all their pets gathered at Romain's Monolithic Dome home in Goodson, a small, rural community in Polk County.

"When that thunder sound started, I told them that there was a funnel near by," Romain said. "But everyone just kept saying that it was only thunder - until my granddaughter, who was watching out my bedroom window, yelled, 'There's a funnel in the yard. It's here.'

For the rest of the article click on the link below.

http://www.monolithic.com/stories/monolithic-dome-home-survives-missouri-tornado


Monolithic Dome Schools

Bishop Nevins Academy - Bishop Nevins Academy in Sarasota, Florida is the first Monolithic Dome School in the state of Florida.


For the article click on the link below.

http://www.monolithic.com/topics/schools

Monolithic Domes Protect 30 Humans and 800+ Pets from Hurricane Frances

Can you imagine walking your dog during a category 2 hurricane? Can you picture yourself standing at a window, watching the hurricane's 105 mph winds battering your structure?



According to Frank Valente, Director of Operations at The Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, that's exactly how he and some 29 other volunteers spent much of their time while Hurricane Frances raged through West Palm Beach, Florida on September 4, 5 and 6.

Valente said, "We had over i a800 animals here at our shelter during Hurricane Frances. That included the pets who were already here, plus nearly another 300 that were brought in by people who had to evacuate the area.



Built in 1985, on a 14-acre site, this animal shelter consists of three, two-story Monolithic Domes. The smallest of the three, a dome with a diameter of 70 feet, provides office space and housing for a staff veterinarian and an ambulance driver.

During Hurricane Frances, Valente said that he stayed in the domes during the entire storm. "I felt perfectly safe -- experienced no stress other than worrying about what was going on outside the domes. But inside, I never once felt that we were at risk."

Apparently the animals were not that confident. Valente said, "They were nervous and finicky with their eating. Animals understand when something's going on, and they can read a human's concern. I also believe animals are very sensitive to certain types of storms, especially when the barometric pressure drops. During this hurricane, they were definitely aware that something was not normal."



"I felt perfectly safe standing at those windows and watching," he added. "I saw a lot of flying debris. We have a couple of gas stations across the street from us. Their heavy signs got blown into our domes. Once it was all over and we were able to go outside, we could see that we suffered a severe loss of landscaping. We lost trees, fences, signs. Our property remained under water for a couple of days, and we discovered unpassable driveways. Many of our neighbors did not fare well -- roofs blown off and mobile homes destroyed."

For full article.  http://static.monolithic.com/gallery/commercial/animal_shelter/


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