First real monsoon - Hyperadobe Solar Shed is still standing! 

Put chicken wire over your chicken coop then soak some bedsheets in watered down cement then lay it over your chicken coop. Itll probably weigh it down in your next storm as well as providing shelter and shade and will solve the problem quickly as I'm sure you have those things already. It'll dry rigid.

I love the music on this video!!! A+ for the 9yr old. You rock 🎸

Oh my! We just bought 10 acres in Cochise and prepping our move back to AZ from IL! Your family is one of several who have inspired us to take the leap of faith and go off grid! The monsoons are the main thing I'm concerned with blowing our RV to Kansas! 🤣

That’s a normal monsoon finally. Where I live I can’t have anything that could potentially blow away. Everything is concreted in the ground at least a 18”. We have very high winds all of the time. The monsoon rains are a welcome blessing to this Az desert rat

Wow, that concrete mixter does look a whole lot better after that chisel job! The chicken wire seems like a perfect solution to covering the window wood. You did a wonderful clean up job. Yet more COB. The kids took it pretty well. Flower beds with hyperadobe bags! That will look really cool! Too bad the small bags didn't work but the big bags look nice because they match the building. WOW, YOU WATCHED IT HAPPEN! YOU ARE HOLDING DOWN THE GARAGE WHILE IT IS RAINING, BLOWING, AND HAILING OUTSIDE! That was amazing. Music was perfect to view the damage. Nine nine looks so cute in the pond! That is a LOT of stuff to move but a very great idea to do NOW. Yes, don't strip the thread! I had that happen on my car so it stopped starting. After a new starter and new battery someone suggested a new post. Two of the threads had stripped and that stopped it from starting! Nice normalizing of batteries. Yes, you guys are a great match! Poor goat lodge. It doesn't look too bad once you put it back up. Poor chicken coop. I like the flower beds!

I could never get my mixer really clean. It’s a very old and really big mixer with a cast iron tub. No beating allowed. One day a friend asked me to make a rather large order of horse shoe art and provided several hundred dirty used horse shoes to prove she was serious. Long story short I tried several way to clean the shoes without satisfactory results. Finally I decided to just dump several boxes in the mixer and, what do you know, the shoes came out clean and so did the mixer. So that’s the secret to cleaning a cement mixer. You use horse shoes. LOL.

Just ordered some soap. I have really been wanting to try goats milk soap, and was waiting for Blue Cactus Dairy to sell soap, but I really wanted to help these folks out. I will support BCD in another way soon. I hope this helps. Could make nice Christmas gifts🙂, just saying. ❤️🌵☀️⛈️🌈☮️🐎🐐🐕🐿️🐝🦍🐖

Yay dinosaur dancing, love it, thank you! Love to all glad you survived!

If you spray WD40 into the drum before mixing, clean up will be a breeze. Nothing sticks! Great progress guys and gals.

9:26 Good thing there aren't any plants in that flower bed because Ashley would have your guts for garters! Dancing! Dancing in the flower bed! Crazy!!

Guys don't be fooled. That storm was normal strength which are strong but even small tornadoes can strike so expect extreme weather every monsoon season. That's why earth structures are so good out here. Enjoy

The good news is they are out of soap, the bad news is they are out of soap. Also. we don't have a bath tub in this tiny trailer.

It amazes me you only have 13k subscribers. Thanks for the upload

I love your channel!! 💗 The support that you all have for one another is amazing. I know that no family is perfect but I love that you have your kids helping and involved with building and caring for their home. Bless you all!! 🥰

99 so funny great news that no body got hurt buildings can be replaced take care and God Bless you all

Just watched this video 🥺 Wow, my heart goes out to you all. Monsoon season is rough, but glad to hear your damage wasn't too severe as your neighbors. I absolutely love watching your videos, and how strong a family you are. God bless you all 🙌 sending you all positive vibes and thoughts. Kay from Northern California 😎

Maybe make your animal structures from steel and concreted into the ground. That way you can be assured in the monsoon wind and rain to come that the structures will stay in place. Kind of expensive, but with the price of wood these days, it could be a better choice. Probably need to get your storage done first. Gosh you guys have so much work ahead of you. But as a family who all works together, you will surely get this accomplished fast. So glad you were all safe.

Need to collect all that rain water!!

Wow... you guys are survivors. Now at least you KNOW to build strong enough to take on these challenging conditions.

I like this playlist. The 9 year old was awesome!

Sorry about the damage from the storm. Looks like you might have a pool where you were digging out the dirt for the dirtbags! At least it is a place for Nine-Nine to play! :D

Saw another off grid show where terrible wind storm hit in desert. They had three shipping containers they welded together for protection for animals as well as feed. Check out the Raneys home rescue. Also had a segment on digging under the soil and made natural air conditioner.

Living in Oklahoma, in Moore, TDC of Tornado Alley it seems, I understand the devastation storms can bring. After May 3rd, 1999 wiped a good chunk of Moore down to bare Earth, leaving only foundations of houses, most of the rebuilds here are now Hurricane grade builds, adding steel straps, beam straps and stronger building regulations for new homes, and most offer in-ground shelters as a selling point now. Your Solar shed with those roof straps was a great idea. I hope you can look into some of those ideas for examples for your house when you build it. Ada rocked the music! I would like to see you guys let each of the kids to so the same, as well as participate in more of their own projects. You might have some future engineers or artists you are raising.

I love Ada's taste in music! More, please!

I loved the doubtful look on your oldest's face when you threw in the trowel

I think you two are evenly matched too.

I don't live far from you, most years monsoon starts on jul.4th every day between 2.30/ 3.30.

28:55 awe, so sweet!! 🥰❤️

Hi Ashley, I admire your determination to see the bright side of all the rain and water damage. You really cannot tell how and where water will flow and collect until you have lived the rain storm and been out in it. Good luck with your future rainwater management projects, I presume you have seen My Little Homestead use of swales.

If you are going to have a permanent storage shed, it might be beneficial to spend a little more and build a brick vault or better yet, with adobe blocks, and use spray foam or stucco to waterproof it. It requires a little more work, but the end result would a room really insulated and solid that nothing can blow it away.

Nine nine is totally oblivious to everything and just wants to play in the mud!!! So cute! And you two are so sweet complementing each other!!!

1. I wish I could just plug in to your playlist. 2. Nine nine could have his own channel and I’d subscribe to it too. Although, all of the animals are super cool the way they hang out together! 3. What the heck was that desert crab (tailless scorpion) looking thing? 4. I don’t shower much but I guess a couple bars of soap won’t hurt 😬 Glad you weathered the storm okay! (Weathered the storm…that’s a weird term) ❤️

I got my shopping in ... looks like sooner is better for best selection! And now I'm watching their videos :) You are awesome for helping them

One way to keep things from flipping from the wind is dig a few 3-4 foot hole big enough for an earthbag . wrap the earthbags in chain and run the chains up to a mounting point high on the structure..Then fill in the holes with the dirt you dug out earlier... The reason for attaching chain high on the structure is if u put it low on a 2x4, the roof or structure can be easier pulled apart . just an idea. I remember seeing a video of a jeep buried in sand... They put a tireless rim on a drive wheel and attached a strong rope to the wheel and the other end went to the object buried 3 ft in the sand. They were able to drive out

So glad you and the family 👪 are ok after the storm, hope your neighbor recovers ok from any damage they may have suffered, please stay safe, are you going to put a new cover on your garage storage shelter, since it is secured down or do you have other plans, 😊👍💕💕💕

Nine9 is so funny to watch you like bite that the dirt looks like it's trying to eat the water

I am from Oz, but have been in Phoenix during several bad monsoon storms. We would watch them swing around up towards Flagstaff then swoop down on Phoenix and past it. Quite spectacuar to watch but I was well protected in a motel as I was over there for 3 months on a work assignment. I got down close to you on Tombstone, doing the tourist stuff, but didn't visit Cochise county. Too late to give advice regarding equalising the lithiums.

Get that Office done so you don't lose anymore cobbing, and take care of those footings and drainage away from the feet of your hyperadobe/cob buildings, and have a stronghold for Monsoons and Haboobs. Hydraulic Lime mix will keep it breathing. You'll likely regret the cement, quit dinking around with "pretty", get the cobbing water proofed. Water, Housing, Food in that order. Consider this Monsoon a blessing. Education the hard way. Been there myself. "A Desert is a flood waiting to happen." Geoff Lawton

Pool liner and some heavy rocks. Instant pond

Grateful the damage wasn't worse. I hope your friends recover soon. Nine Nine providing a small amount of comic relief in the suddenly available small pond.

Ada's choice of opening music was seriously Incredible! And no, you need floors before flower beds, that way you can get the solar working and the AC installed. But for the small bags, maybe you need a 2 gallon bucket jig. Also I'd bet money that it would hold back the dirt just fine, unless you were going to go like 6 feet up.

Sending our love & so thankful your loss was small....❤❤❤

A great way to retard a mix of concrete is to add *sugar* to the drum. Half a cup is probably plenty for an almost empty drum like that. You'd want to scrape off the upper drum with a 2-3" putty knife first, then make sure everything is soaked through with the sugar water. That's also a good time to add some big rocks to the drum, and tilt it so the rocks tumble all the way to the mouth of the drum and back. The sugar will stop the concrete setting process, leaving an easily scraped or tumbled and rinsed sandy mud. If you do have to chip cured concrete from a mixer drum, hitting the outside of the drum makes the best physics sense, often popping off huge sheets with a single blow. You don't want to make dents in the drum (especially a rental!) as they will rust and crack over time. Hammer is the easiest to way to dent the drum. A pipe is better as it spreads the load; larger diameter is better. A piece of square steel tubing would be best as the flat can deliver good blows without denting.d A good way to hold down things like coops is UV resistant nylon or even kevlar strapping. Look for it bulk by the roll, it's sold by width and load rating. At least 2 straps attached to heavy ground anchors and pulled tight provide good tensile strength, and play much nicer with tarps and covers than a round rope profile of the same strength. Those precast concrete post anchors with steel straps for 4X lumber make good anchors, and you can easily cast your own.

Awesome animal's. I think Mabel would be nice.

Ada has great taste in music 🎵

Wow, glad too hear everyone is okay? Minus one chicken! Thankfully minimal damage, can the damage shed be recovered with corrugated fiberglass sheets and fasterns ?! And it looks like nine-nine enjoys the starting of the pond. Keep the faith and take care until next time, and God bless amen.

Hey y’all Glad to see all are safe sorry you had so much damage But it’s preparing you for the long hall You guys are troopers and will prevail Just an observation but I head you say Black was Positive Red was Negative Red is always hot as with Blue and other bright colors White is always Common Green is Ground But it’s a choice for your setup Just sayin

Your channel is so entertaining thank you so much for sharing your adventure with us.

Dig the Music Man....

Looking forward to trying the soaps. That's a great idea to promote their soaps. Besides, they have peppermint soap. I like anything peppermint ... lol.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 so sorry about the storm yikes 🙏

I really enjoy watching your videos you guys are a lot of fun to watch.

I find your videos informative, fun and entertaining. The disa are fun and the animals running around....great fun! I am getting ready to do the same but prolly a dome configuration for the main structure. Thanks.

Love your dog he is so funny running through the water thank God you are all ok take care you guys

You all are amazing! I would have been so discouraged after that storm! I think I would have been napping and eating for days! I am glad you saw the blessings in it and you just got right back to work. I pray your friends sell a lot of soap and can fix the storm damage! Also, I have said this before, but I LOVE your music choices! I really loved the beginning music and then the music during and after the storm.

I feel for you guys. I had water coming in through the roof last night during a winter storm here in Australia.

Great job guys! Sorry you had to go through that terrible storm. Also sorry about your chicken loss and all the cleanup that you have to do. Keep smiling!

I would recommend making those wicking beads.

Good job on music Ada

A couple of things I noticed while watching the aftermath of your storm. Wouldn't the greenstalk do better in a corner of the solar shed that gets sun? It wouldn't be right by your kitchen but it would be protected from the wind. You can easily replant them. Even way up in Michigan I will still be replanting veggies. There's still plenty of time. The other is would using some of your cement blocks attached to the chicken coop to hold it down during upcoming storms

hahahhahahahah I'm dying at your comment and MY actions: " no matter HOW tired you are clean up" I just bought a new toaster oven because I am just not feeling cleaning the one I've got....... It's 7yrs old and only cost $20 so NOT like replacing a cement mixer but LOL I'm just not feeling cleaning the melted cheese off from my granddaughter's pizza!!!

I want a Nine Nine! Fortunately I live on the other side of the Atlantic, I would have come to steal it from you 😁 I’m glad you didn’t have too much damage in that storm. Thanks for sharing 👍

Nine nine enjoyed her private pool. Thank God no one was hurt.

Re: bus bars, you may already know this but when putting bus bars on, do every second one followed by the ones in between so the bus bars are not angled but flat on the terminals. This may not matter in your case as you will be doing mostly series to get 48 V and so each bus bar will only be between two poles (I think, unless you are doing parallel first). Also you may have been just demonstrating you didn't have enough bars (copper pipe flattened and drilled works nice) without respect to how you would normally mount them which would just make me... picky. ;)

I loved the watery smell before monsoons. Miss those crazy storms. Hopefully you'll rebuild from any damage.

Hammer on the outside of the drum...

If we could only be like Nine-Nine 😊

I found you through @mylittlehomestead and am so glad I did! I wished they had vids of the early years and YOU GUYS are what I found! Great to see the reality of the learning, and the critical thinking out loud! I appreciate you sharing your real deal stuff and look forward to watching this unfold!

So glad that y'all were able to do some recovery and salvage things and that everyone is safe. Just saw in the forecast that flash flooding is predicted for today for your area. Hope y'all stay safe! And yay for dancing dino❤️

Have you contacted Shelter Logic about the tent cover? It's under a 1 year warranty and they will replace it if it's within that time frame.

I like that ••••••••••• “Suck it up- Clean it up!” 😏

1/2 gallon of muratic acid. Let it run for a 1/2 hour and don't rinse it. let set over night and volia: clean as a new.

You just need a 20 foot shipping container to keep your stuff in

I was so excited to buy some goat milk soap but they are pretty much sold out of everything, I will definitely be buying when they get more stock… I’m so happy y’all didn’t have much damage and no one was hurt….well except for the one chicken 😢

I like the way you make the animal housing. But have you thought about rebar bend on end to a L shape and pound in so the L part is hooked in to the buildings the deep you go the better chance to keep where it belongs

OMG, that spider and HUGE looking scorpion? Was that a scorpion???

What about storage containers like metal shipping containers you can find some that are insulated the food rated those things don’t go anywhere and you can anchor them to the ground should you need to or partially buried them

Since you have the cob to the celling is it cooler? Praise God y'all are safe.

Wow, God Bless you all in all this damage. One day at a time and you learned things for the future. Keep looking to the future and you'll have it done in no time.

Dude, you guys ate in a flood plain. You guys should think about raising finish floor on the rest of your building.

Is it good to water flowers so close to the shed re water damage? It looks really cute though! I learned a lot from you all.

A Tee shirt ; suck it up clean it up ; And: that's some crazy chicken weather : best ever sound engineer

OMG

I was going to ask how you plan on filling those 8-inch bags but you burst my bubble now I can't ask you cuz I know you can't LOL

I'd be worried that moisture would get through the wall at the planters w/o a bearer of some kind.

Will insurance cover any of the damage. Please tell us you didn’t lose any animals.

How about getting a copper pipe flatten it drill holes to match posts

What a week 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Once agins folks excellent reeport .. burrt iv gotta tellya .. ya gotsta clean the ceement mixer right properlike .. no point gettin ya pantyloombs in a knott .. i jurrst hope the people from the preevention of mr meaners and cruelty to ceement mixer were watchin ..you.d have a lotta explanin to do .. did like how the lil chitlins jumped into doin the flowerbed ..they looked a lil deflated at first .. burrt with in seconds they were bright eyed and bushytailed ..and thats acredited to them ..towitt translates to moore icecream .. 😍😎😁pip pips pilgrims

9:25 🦖 😉

What is the shelf life for a single battery

Suck it up...lmao!!!

Is that a Soundwave Tattoo arrow I see on your arm?

I see the storm removed some of the cob from the outside of the house . Is that going to be a problem? The other you tuber I am watching is using bags and they are not holding up very well.

They sent it for series hook up,

Is there a shirt with, “Suck it up. Clean it up.” on it?

link to the batts?

I've only been watching you guys for about a month. Went back this morning and watched some of the ones from a year ago. I hate to ask, but what happened to Brooklyn? I only see 99 since I've been watching.

When are u gonna start building rooms for each of the kids

What town you close to