[Cob] COB: (a bit off colour) Haiti COB and Mixing

[Katherine K Hebenstreit]

I hear the talk of Monies to be sent and spent.   The "industrial builders" who will arrive to be so humaine (and make a profit).  .. 

Yet Haiti appears to have the best mud mixers by far.   Did You SEE the news where the women make COOKIES out of dirt and water (clay as they claim the mountain clay has minerals at least) - and they mix it to a creamy texture then shape them like flat pie pans and dry in the sun.   For the CHILDREN TO EAT and at leas separate the stomach walls.  

I am not trying to sound Insensitive.  But the truth is, the mix for those cookies would make you wish you had such a texture for your finishes - so smooth!      

Wouldn't it seem wiser to have cheap housing for such an impoverished community?   They already have a talent with the clay.   

First gulf winds storm raging through Haiti with modern (1st world housing) is sure to be flattened or degloved (loose it's crown/roof) as most N.American housing is wont to do.    

I'm sure such N American houseing won't do.  Plumping into the 'bathroom....?  where people carry water by hand because of 'no city pipe works'!   HELLO.  


Alternative Builders I should think SHOULD be trotting on down and showing the poor folk who survived and own land how to build again on the cheap.  

*sorry about the poor writing.   Under the weather, small fever, headache...but wanted to get my GRIPE out before I forget about those mud cookies*




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