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Yes, the hurriquake nails help prevent earthquake ...

2008-08-03T13:31:00.000-07:00

Yes, the hurriquake nails help prevent earthquake damage as well

would this also help in earthquake regions (speaki...

2008-08-03T12:14:00.000-07:00

would this also help in earthquake regions (speaking as a socalfornian)?

This has some interesting side effects: it means ...

2008-08-03T10:25:00.000-07:00

This has some interesting side effects: it means that militarily, a relatively-unsophisticated blanket attack via nuke or the like will be much less effective if houses are generally able to withstand much higher psi. For instance, I'm in N. Texas... hurricanes and nukes aren't going to get the housing codes upgraded... but tornadoes and derechos (straight-line winds, which can be just as deadly) sure might.

That means that *militarily*, if there's a shift to generally hardened homes, you're going to see a generally continued impetus to low-volume-of-fire military work with more-highly-trained individuals. This is already in-progress to some extent... in our current war zones, you can tell the US is fighting by how *few* gunshots you're hearing, rather than how many, and the military is actively scaling *down* the size of its shells and rockets for close-quarter work, so that infantry can be close enough to the blast to get in and get people while they're still stunned from the hit.

They fit in regular nail guns and have been used t...

2008-08-03T09:21:00.000-07:00

They fit in regular nail guns and have been used to build tens of thousands of homes in the Gulf region and around the USA. Widely available nationwide now. Sold on amazon and at regular hardware stores

Hurriquake nails look like a cool design, but if t...

2008-08-03T08:58:00.000-07:00

Hurriquake nails look like a cool design, but if they can't be loaded into a pneumatic nailer they won't be used by most crews, even if the builder foots the added expense.