Comments on: Life lessons on Maya Mountain

By: Albert Bates on The Great Change | The Esperanza Project

Albert Bates on The Great Change | The Esperanza Project — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:40:12 +0000

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By: Mel Riser

Mel Riser — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:36:03 +0000

I also saw the same thing when Hurricane Gilbert hit a fishing camp I was working for in Tamaulipas. the buildings that had tin and tile roofs all had most of their roofs destroyed, but the main cabana building and areas around the swimming pool and bar, had thatched palm roofs and they survived the cat 5 hurricane relatively unscathed. It literally took one day to patch the roofs on those buildings and weeks to patch the roofs on the tin roof buildings.

By: Melissa Gaskill

Melissa Gaskill — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:18:28 +0000

Tracy, Very interesting article! Especially the observation about the thatched roof of a Mayan house withstanding the storm as it does. I visited a Maya village on the Yucatan not long ago, and tourism officials said income from tourist visits (which included rappeling into a cenote, a shaman blessing, and swimming in a cenote) would help the residents of the Mayan village build houses made of concrete, the better to withstand hurricanes. Is this one of those examples of “modern progress” turning out to be a step backward? Where the old way of doing things is actually the best? It also occurs to me that if your thatched roof blows off, it isn’t going to crush you, nor is it going to be impossible or expensive to replace!