What's with the huge gate?

     I really like the movie "Kong", the one with Jack Black as the ringleader. It takes place partly on the island where the local inhabitants have based their entire lives on staying away from the genetically modified monkey. If there ever was a need to prepare for disaster, this is it. What could be done to protect the entire village?

A lot of people have questioned the size of the gate. 

     Build an altar to worship the beast and a huge fire to hopefully scare him away. Don't give him any access points past the 100 foot tall wall that was built. Don't let the kids out after dark, or after light either. Don't grow any crops outside the gate.
     There really isn't much that can be done to predict an action by an unpredictable being. There are similarities between protecting oneself against a monster and a natural disaster. I think King Kong is a little more predictible. All he had was his muscles and natural abilities. A natural catatrophic event has a lot of factors involved, weather, water, the ground shaking, flood or high winds, it's all unpredictible. With King Kong it seems possible to be able to hide from him when he's acting up. With a flood or wild fire for example, hiding would be fatal. In a panic some people do hide, others run madly away and still others freeze in place. Human reactions are highly unpredictible much like the actions a giant ape might take.
      Unpredictiblility is the major issue when faced with an emergency. Every one of them is different. In a wildfire we have fickle winds, tornado we have no idea where they will start run and end. Earthquake's are a "what was that?" moment, and the power of water is totally out of control or prediction. I lived for 3 years in the California desert near Mecca, California south of Palm Springs. There is a geological formation underground on the North shore of the Sea of Cortez called the "anvil". If an earthquake in the correct spot occurs the anvil will slip, allowing sea water to flow into California underground. The water would (some say it will happen again) rise 150 feet in some places flooding from Baja to Palm Springs.

The burning man ship Contessa on fire.

When I learned of that, I thought, the only defense would be to put a boat on the roof of the house, just in case. A person might gather a few nicknames when the neighbors see that but what else can a person do to prepare? A person doesn't want to set themselves up for failure. Other than a boat on the roof, what else is there? There are legends of sailing ships laying in the desert sands. You can read about some of them here. 
      The locals on the island King Kong lived on built a huge wall around their village. It looked to be 100 feet tall. King Kong looked to be nearly that tall as well. The people did all they could to block the beast out. Or did they? I wonder why they built a gate to the complex that allowed the giant ape to walk in upright. Most of the people I saw were average size for a person. Did they sabotage themselves with the huge gate? Why go through all that work just to build a gate? What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
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jimandkate
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