straw is actually incredibly strong stuff when you try anything compressive lengthwise, there are recorded instances when lengths of straw have been driven through pine boards on a barn after a twister picked it up and threw it about. Its also commonplace in alternative and old fashioned building.
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Date: 2010-03-07 03:38 pm (UTC)