Well, for our yurt, at least. In the strong winds last night (which didn't seem as strong as previous winds) part of it collapsed. Well, all of it I guess, but a quarter to a third of the wall bent in and down.
Bad timing, though it could have been worse. We could have been living in it.
I have a lot of emotions about it right now, not the least of which is some severe frustration with the extent to which I tried to make right a Spirit Mountain yurt. It has bitten my rear end for the last time.
Not having
ever read any accounts from others experiencing structural yurt failure, I'm not prepared to give up on yurts. I'm ready to build my own, but I have a hurdle to get over first: what is it about SM yurts that sucks? My speculation is that the roof is too steep or that the rafters don't join the
in a sturdy enough fashion. Or that they really just don't give a damn about
anything (besides money), and their yurts somehow manifest that.
And, of course, I need some plans I feel like I can depend on. So I would love to hear words of support and encouragement, and some advice about 1) what could have gone wrong and 2) how to build my own that doesn't fail.
I discovered this an hour before we were going to head four hours north to my in-laws' for X-mas, so now I'm trying to figure out how much
needs to be done to clean up the mess...
Photos, of course, will follow.
The End of the World
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