Hello Jim:
After doing Industrial Security in some of the roughest English Industrial
Towns, we found that "moating" vulnerable doors and walls against
heavy equipment traffic was a great help in preventing the equipment from
prizing open doors, or more simply being run backwards through the doors
and walls. The floors at the man doors and protected vehicle doors had a
two foot deep by three-to-four foot wide ditch dug and a light weight (two
inch
in many cases)
concrete topping poured over an infill of mostly styrofoam bead.
When we needed to bridge in with heavy gear we used overlaying steel [trenching]
plates to spread the load, but if a forklift ventured on the spot-loading would
break
through and the lift would go down.
Our inspiration was a rural 19th century US Postal Service post office construction
technique of having a small concrete island under the floor safe, surrounded
by flooring & joists
purposely sized too lightly for the safe to be dragged away - the safe would
fall 10
feet into the cellar if rolled off of the concrete island. 73s, - Steve W
Mr. Rawles;
I enjoyed reading tonight about the prospect of "hunkering
down in a commercial building". We have two warehouses and actually live
in one of them! No one has any idea,
either! You cannot tell from looking at them. They are located on
a short dead end street, so there is no traffic to speak of. There is land
between the two buildings that I will begin to garden this spring. I would love to
be on 20 acres somewhere way out of town, but this is where we are now. It
is convenient and close to everything that we do. We also have a location out
of town on several acres to go to when the Schumer Hits the Fan. Sincerely,
- Mrs. Downtown
Mr. Rawles,
Just wanted to point out that if you follow this gentleman's advice in regards
to this line: "If outdoor growth is not a viable option, try indoor crop
growth with lamps, skylights, or mirrors. As growing things indoors can be
difficult at first,
it may be good to practice this well in advance of the need to do it for your
life."
That, I am fairly certain that if you have a moderately clandestine location
with a large indoor growing operation you are at way more risk for a [police]
SWAT raid
than of TEOTWAWKI
in the (very) near future. If the feds find a bunch of grow lights etc. (and
especially if they are associated with stockpiles of food, weapons,
and preparedness supplies) there is no way they wouldn't prosecute for a drug
crime, confiscate all money and goods (they don't even need to prosecute to
keep it -- you have to prove it wasn't drug money). Even if no illegal drugs
are found
the lights and equipment are considered "drug paraphernalia" for
the purposes of prosecution. That could be tough to explain. - Bill B.