Northern Ireland ground crew!?

[Egg]

YRA - The soil was sandy and with deep grass and gorse bushes that then went into a pine forest mixed with birch trees - then more open deeper peat leading to the mountains.

Trees didn't survive - the pines 200 yards from the houses were just pushed down and became projectiles - The birch faired a bit better as they are less rigid, but it was as I say like a view from the somme when the winds went down. I wish I still had photographs of the devastation, but polaroids don't travel well.

300 / 400 miles an hour winds make me have the urge to get in a cave well back from the entrance.

[burgundia]

Originally Posted by Egg

YRA -

300 / 400 miles an hour winds make me have the urge to get in a cave well back from the entrance.

In such a situation i think the only way is to go deep into a cave. if the winds swept the soil 11 feet deep, how deep under the ground would one have to be to be safe?

[Egg]

Rock Burg can withstand winds of tens of hundreds of miles an hour. Granite mountains withstand aeons of precipitation and wind scouring with only a slight bumping.

In short, a cave would in my advice need to be 100 or so meters deep to be safe, and with a nice twisted wind baffling entrance.

Do not forget though, if all else fails, a basement in your home is better by far than nothing.

[yra]

thanks, Egg. I know trees to be like matches, they crackk all around me under wintersnows in a light breeze.

Have been living at the foot of Ingleborough hill in Clapham, North Yorkshire, GB for some years, masses of caves under there, many fill up with water rapidly when it rains...

here in southern norway I am surrounded by granite (which on the surface splits each winter under the force of ice). My cellar walls are made from large granite blocks, unfortunately the roof planks above might be 200 years old...

I had to drill for water and the modern custom is to drill approximately 80 meters down into the rock - because they say the cavities there are always filled with water/waterpressure is high enough there - guaranteed 2000 liters per day...

If you got rocks around you - get psychic senses working for you to locate cavities in the rocks - might take searching/building time down drastically