A friend of mine tipped me off to these small houses, because he's seriously thinking about living in one full time:

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
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These homes are apparently incredibly effecient when it comes to size and energy use. They are designed to get the most living space while making the smallest dent in the environment. You can keep them on a small piece of land or hitch them up to a truck and take them anywhere.

Pretty neat! <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

*sigh* I'd rather be in any one of those instead of at work. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Just add a generator and satellite internet and I'm good. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thoreau-ly impressive!

Geez, if you had a full production line, I'm thinking you could produce those faster than a RV. Perhaps FEMA should see abou this. It fills the niche between "americans don't sleep in tents", and "americans must have this RV because it has modern conviences they can't live without, including the hair drier plug"

*gack*


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" our house, is a very, very nice house house. With two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard. Now everythng is easy 'cause of you." I'd whistle the intermezzo to ' Tumbling Tumbleweeds' but I am recovering from Valley Fever. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

My boss, when I lived in the Arroyo Grande/Pismo Beach area up the coast from you, got Valley Fever during extended visit to the Bakersfield-area. It was an arduous recovery. If you've really got it (not that I'm suggesting you've ever told an untruth on here <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />), wish you a speedy recovery.

Thanks for passing along the link! What a neat little setup. I am definitely bookmarking this one...

Thanks, for anyone unfamiliar with coccidiodomycosis AKA Valley Fever; it is a fungal spore in the greater southwest. Usually stirred up up in dust after fires or storms ( and archaeologists digging units.) Symptoms range from a nasty flu like condition to individuals suffering additional effects including stroke and cardiac arrest. It is nasty stuff. Anyone who visits the area and becomes ill should be tested.Mmany M.D.s are not familiar with it.

a better idea for FEMA ....
I don't have details right now, I will have to take time some day and google/look for it ....
But I remember an architecte, in Japan, proposed small emergency "houses" made of cardboard (that was right after the earthquake in Kobe, IIRC) :
- easy to stock, unmounted
- easy, quick to install
- cheap
- tough enough for a few months
- more comfy than a simple emergency tent shelter (more privacy, like in a real house)
- when no longer needed, no need to take it back to some stocking center : just burn it !!