EXPEDIENT SHELTER CONSTRUCTION AND OCCUPANCY EXPERIMENTS

摘要

This report strongly indicates the practicality of tens of millions of Americans evacuating into rural areas and building and occupying high-protection factor expedient shelters during an escalating international crisis This concept was successfully tested by untrained families who built expedient shelters during winter in Colorado, summer in Utah, and spring in Florida Their efforts are presented in this report primarily by the captioned photographs showing these typical American families evacuating their homes, driving to rural shelter-building sites, and then, with hand tools, constructing their own sheltersnThese average, mostly urban, American families were guided only by step by step, well illustrated written instructions given to them at the start of each experiment Crisis conditions were simulated, and adequate motivation was provided by the promise of a cash bonus for completion of the shelter within 36 or 48 hours, depending on the difficulty of construction All families, or groups of families succeeded in winning the bonus, with one exception.