tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post2546124164550199667..comments2024-03-26T14:19:33.332-07:00Comments on Bench Grass: Postblogging Technology, March 1943: An Appendix About Flooded Basements (Any Port in a Storm)Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-17407824024582928322015-04-07T09:54:16.710-07:002015-04-07T09:54:16.710-07:00Well, this comment has certainly been sitting arou...Well, this comment has certainly been sitting around long enough. (Ask me about how labour shortages can exist in a low wage environment! Tho' my response may be limited to shambling up to you and trying to eat your brain.)<br /><br />I doubt that Rolando's business has to concern itself very much with basement flooding due to building envelopes being shattered by high-explosive blast. As a Vancouverite who endured the "leaky condo" fiasco of the 1990s, "building envelope" is a chilling phrase. In our case, it appears that the problem was largely one of traditional building methods not taking progress in envelope function seriously enough.<br /><br />That is, specifically, progress from places like the Britain of the 1930s, where building envelope integrity had a ways to go. I am speculating here when I suggest that the ultimate extent of British housing reinvestment during the 1950s had something to do with the failure of authorities to take adequate cognisance of the effect of blast on buildings not originally identified as damaged by the air war. <br /><br />What I'm now beginning to wonder, as I suffer through Geoffrey Crowther's editorials taking aim at Swintons 450,000-starts-a-year plan is whether this failure to recognise the potential extent of damage might have been, let us say, self-interested.Erik Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-49533859925342616402015-03-31T12:01:13.835-07:002015-03-31T12:01:13.835-07:00Great stuff! It's nice to read about a more co...Great stuff! It's nice to read about a more comprehensive and historical take on the matter of flooded basements, which persists and in some cases has intensified to this very day. It's really interesting to hear how military operations had been deployed for that. Well, it is a security problem if it leaves lives unstable and the market unsure, or cuts into the latter's dynamics. Anyway, thanks for sharing such a perspective and instructive, Erik! All the best to you!<br /><br /><a href="http://ecopurerestoration.blogspot.com/2015/03/handling-crawlspace-moisture-problem.html" rel="nofollow">Rolando Glover @ EcoPure Restoration</a> Rolando Gloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562380127606232846noreply@blogger.com