I remember J. Baldwin, a contemporary and friend of Bucky's, a few years back in SF, saying that a dome (I don't know size or windspeed, but lets assume between 20' adn 40' in diameter, and 60+mph) was susceptible to uploads of ~40 tons. This is what scares me on the Playa, is that people are actually capturing that much energy (I'm sure that's what's got The Man and the ISS lookin' so closely @ The Playa, J/K). Just for fun, try looking for the ISS (International Space Station) with your naked eye, sometime around sunrise on Sunday of The Burn. It's rad, and The Playa is on their yearly flightplan, just like clock work. Any way..... The whole dome failure thing..... They aren't ever actually blown down, but sucked. The side that's facing the winds forces shears it to it's sides, and as the wind accellerates and reforms somewhere past the back end, a vacum is created on the backside of the winds impact. It's the side opposite the wind to really watch when it all comes crashing down. As far as the uncovered dome going down, yikes! That, I could have never taken a guess at. Live and Learn, except here, we only have to share our experiences, and distribute or null the grief of human mistakes. Thank God, we don't all have to learn each mistake. One per group suits us quite well.