Both trials that randomized clusters of houses used trained community mobilizers to promote the filing of cracks in walls and floors with mud or lime (Chowdhury 2011 BGD; Joshi 2009 ASIA).
The gangster invades the home via a peculiar trap door in the middle of the room, emerging from the floor, caked with mud.
For some of those looking glumly from the windows of stationary buses, flooded streets awaited at home; or worse still, soaked sofas, ruined fridges, and kitchen floors slick with mud.
The floors were slippery with mud.
"When cellphones went down, there was paralysis and panic," said Shoji Ogasawara, the head of emergency communications at Miyako's City Hall, where the tsunami filled the first floor with foul-smelling mud.
One thousand five hundred and fifty three (72.3%) subjects lived in houses with mud floor, while the remaining 596 (27.7%) lived in houses with a hard floor design.
Majority (>90%) of the community in the current study area were self employed, live in house with mud floor, were Muslims and Amhara in ethnicity.
More than 90% of the community in the current study area were self-employed, live in house with mud floor, Muslims religious followers, Amhara in ethnicity, had toilet and used piped water for drinking.
Families typically live in small compounds of three buildings with mud floors, with several persons sleeping in the same room.
The majority of respondents (67 %) reported living in tiled roof houses with mud flooring, while only 40%% indicated easy access to potable water.
