After school or in his spare time, Canto often performs burrowing by hand. Later, Canto’s friend Andreu brought along a pneumatic drill to speed up the process – the two eventually created a 3m deep cave. Andres Canto stands outside his cave. Six years later, Canto tried to create his own cave with separate living room and bedroom with heating, wifi, music system. Now 20 years old, Canto really doesn’t understand what motivated him so much to build this cave but he’s happy with the result. Canto continued: “It’s great, I have everything I need. Working here can be uncomfortable because it’s humid and there’s not much air around, but I found my own motivation to keep going. keep perfecting it every day”. Cantor’s burrow sometimes suffers from flooding and is often visited by insects, spiders, and snails, but this guy usually doesn’t mind. He further explained: “I have always liked building small huts. I live in the countryside and when I find discarded wood, I will build a nice house,” added Cantor. Canto estimates that the project costs no more than €50 (£43) as most of the building materials are much cheaper than he expected. Canto mainly burrows using buckets to bring up the soil, but eventually decided to incorporate other digging techniques such as using a pulley system. Canto also reinforced his cave’s roof using a vaulted entrance and vaulted ceiling with columns, as well as concrete walls to prevent collapse. Image of the cave during the previous construction. Video of Canto’s cave quickly went viral on social media and immediately attracted the attention of local authorities. Canto said: “Since I was the first to do such a thing, when the local officials arrived, there were no specific reports of it. It was not a basement, nor was it a warehouse, it’s just a well-built hut in the ground.” Amazingly, Canto’s parents were also normal with their son’s “retreat” in the ground. Canto even said: “My mother went down to the cave and told me it was smaller than the one in the video”.

A shelter room in the basement of a building in Tel Aviv. Photo: Van Ung – P/v VNA in Tel Aviv During the conflict that has been going on for the past week, Hamas in the Gaza Strip fires hundreds of shells and rockets into Israel every day in retaliation for the Israeli army’s attack on this force. According to Israel’s Civil Defense Law, enacted in 1951 and subsequently amended several times, all homes, residential areas, offices and industrial buildings must have additional shelters built. In addition, Israel has also launched many propaganda campaigns, instructing people on how to stay safe whenever the sirens sound. In recent clashes with Hamas, the bunkers along with the Iron Dome (Iron Dome) interceptor missile system have helped Israel very effectively limit the number of casualties from Palestinian shells. The idea of ​​shelter was born after the First Gulf War, to help people quickly reach a safe place from bombs, bullets, missiles or chemical weapons. Later, with the development of the construction industry, Israelis tend to build shelter rooms right in their apartments. Whenever there is a missile alarm, people just need to quickly enter the shelter, close the door and wait until the alarm is over for 10 minutes to be able to go out safely. Currently in Israel there are some basic types of shelter works as follows: Shelter: All homes, residential areas and industrial buildings in Israel are required to have shelters built. The law also allows several houses or apartment buildings to share a bunker. In the event of war, the garages can be requisitioned as shelters or makeshift hospitals. The bunker must always remain closed so that anyone can quickly and easily access it when the sirens sound. Israeli children in a bunker. Photo: Jerusalem Post Shelter room: This is the most common form of shelter in Israel. Shelters are built right into apartments, floors of buildings or other public areas. The shelter room, built of reinforced concrete, is located near the entrance to the apartments. Usually these rooms are used by residents as storage, but when there is an incident, this place will be required to be cleaned up to be ready for people to enter the shelter at any time. Fortifications: Neighborhoods near the Gaza Strip often build fortifications, which are dome structures over buildings to avoid being penetrated by rockets. Since 2008, the Israeli government has built a solid bus stop with reinforced concrete to avoid being hit by shrapnel. Since 2009, all schools in the South have been fortified with anti-missiles. Migunit: This is a concrete structure shaped like a bell or box, with enough space for a small group of about 10 people to shelter. Migunit can be moved to place in vacant lots or near roads so that people can easily access when there is an alarm. Sewer pipes is a pipe several meters long placed near a house that can provide temporary shelter. At the request of the agency in charge of civil safety, the minimum size of the shelter room is as follows: Covered area 13m2 (3.6m x 3.6m), clear area 9m2 (3m x 3m) . Thickness of outer wall 25cm, thickness of inner wall 20cm, thickness of ceiling 30cm. The room must be built of solid materials, with metal-reinforced doors. Israelis take refuge in a sewer when rockets are fired from Gaza. Photo: Getty Images Normally, the shelter room will be the innermost room of the building, with limited wall area exposed to the outside, no windows or small windows, and the walls are not covered with fragile materials. shot causing injury such as porcelain, brick, mirror, glass… For old apartment buildings, the law stipulates that there must be shelter rooms with reinforced concrete walls at least 12 cm thick or at least under concrete stairs. cardboard with enough supports to keep the building safe enough from bombs and missiles. In the past, when there were no clear regulations, each shelter room was only 5m2 wide and was often used as a laundry room or storage. Later, the law stipulates a minimum area of ​​9m2, but most families still use the shelter room as an extra bedroom or office. In the event of a war, in each shelter people usually keep some items such as canned food, emergency lights, communication equipment, fire extinguishers, copies of important documents, phone chargers, and batteries. batteries, bottled water. There are also some personal items such as money, clothes, candles, medicine, first aid kit and important phone numbers.

French photographer Jeremy Buchholz didn’t have the money to buy an apartment in Bordeaux, so he decided to buy an abandoned garage and turn it into a great hideaway. This old garage has a big corrugated iron door and inside is a messy, dirty room. So, Jeremy Buchholz called his friend architect Matthieu de Marien, who specializes in renovating shops, offices and other spaces into homes. The front of the garage was formerly a rusted white corrugated board and has now been replaced with a sturdy sliding wood panel. Stepping into the house, you will gasp in surprise. The living space is very cozy and beautifully decorated, different from the outside. To make the space feel larger, De Marien created a “home within a house”: a large piece of furniture that includes a small bathroom, bedroom, desk, wardrobe, chair sofa and storage. All space is designed in this large furniture box. The rest of the house is open plan with kitchen, dining area, living room and front yard. Indoor skylights both bring in more natural light and create a more open feel.

Located behind a thick iron door in the lobby of the building, the bunker ensures the safety of the building’s residents in the event of attacks. While some residents have their own private cellars in their homes, shared shelters in the lobby of buildings can help anyone, even passersby, quickly enter. Usually, this bunker is locked and becomes the people’s storage. However, when there is an emergency situation, the main door will be opened. Each building resident has a key to the bunker. Inside, residents leave luggage bags containing essential supplies such as water, snacks and spare batteries to be able to sustain life for a period of time. The cellar also installed two air conditioners to ensure air for people sheltering inside. The bunker has only one window and is surrounded by an “iron wall”. From the moment the rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip, the people of Tel Aviv had about two minutes to get to the shelter. Meanwhile, those who are closer, such as those living in the cities of Ashkelon or Sderot near the Gaza Strip, have less than 30 seconds to reach safety. Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is said to be able to intercept about 90% of incoming missiles, but the constant rain of rockets from Gaza in recent days seems to pose a challenge. defense system that Israel has always been proud of.

Every time before and after Tet, people in the West are bustling in the slapping season to catch fish. When the field legs began to run out, the fish retreated to the shelter, people began to slap again to harvest the field fish. Fishing is a long-standing activity in the West and has become a cultural feature of the people here. Every time we slap, everyone in the neighborhood helps, called “catching the pangasius”. At dawn, everyone took advantage of the slap. Copper fish often go very deep in the mud, hiding in caves. People are happy with their achievements. In the past, people used dandruff and barrels to slap, so it took a lot of effort and time. Currently, every slap, people use the pump to pump water, so it is less strenuous and shortens the time. While waiting for the water to run out, healthy young men and men take advantage of clearing grass, water spinach, scrub (a dry tree for fish shelter) to easily catch fish. The fish in the mud are very diverse, most of them are tilapia, perch, octopus, snakehead fish, and catfish … When the water is almost dry, people gather to catch fish. Copper fish often go deep in the mud, so people have to soak in mud, crawl in grass, in caves to catch big fish. Copper fish in the West is very plentiful, most snakehead fish, perch, waterfalls and chach. Finished slapping, the owner took the delicious fish to make many dishes, treat neighbors to thank everyone to help him. Western people think that “the fish you sell for money will use up, but if you have the heart to choose delicious fish for customers, your long-term love is hard to fade”. Among the delicious dishes from copper fish, there must be grilled snakehead fish. Snakehead fish grilled with sweet, fragrant aroma with the smell of coal fire, eaten with a bunch of copper vegetables, though simple but passionate about the taste of the countryside. Slapping a lot of fish, they also dried, made fish sauce to eat gradually. After the slapping, the owners often catch the best snakehead fish and bring them to grill, treat them to slap. Grilled snakehead fish, a specialty of the West. Pham Thi Hon (living in Khanh Binh Dong commune, Tran Van Thoi district, Ca Mau) said that in recent years, the amount of copper fish has decreased sharply, but people still keep the habit of slapping. “Because copper fish is increasingly rare, very few families sell fish. If they have a lot of fish, they will sell some to familiar traders. Most of the fish are divided among brothers and friends. The most fun is the scene where the brothers catch copper fish together, then grill or charcoal in the middle of the field, “said Hon.