particularly on the west coast, wood is more EQ resistant. tho fires are a bigger issue than EQs to be fair
when i was on the east coast, at least where i lived, there were way more brick/cement homes than CA
With all this LA fires problem, I found out that most houses in the US are built with wood. The , sons? Why don't you use bricks and cement like any sane person? I live in a ty third World country and even we all know better than to build toy houses made out of wood.
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particularly on the west coast, wood is more EQ resistant. tho fires are a bigger issue than EQs to be fair
when i was on the east coast, at least where i lived, there were way more brick/cement homes than CA
Chile has more EQ than the US and you won't see a wooden house there. In fact, it is law to build your house in a specific way with bricks and cement specifically to account for EQs. I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on this, but the logic just doesn't add up.
Wood is more earthquake resistant than cement and stone....? That literally makes zero sense. You build a deep foundation and cement the house many times to the foundation to minimize earthquake damage. How does wood resist earthquakes?
Yeah, his argument makes zero sense. Wood is fragile and rots after a specific amount of time. I guess the only thing worse than wood is a glass home for earthquakes? And glass doesn't really burn, but wood is cheap and million dollar homes made of cheap wood are suffering the consequences. If the Jan 12-13 SoCal earthquake pans out it's going to cause lots more fires.
im not saying they SHOULD be using wood, just giving one of the expainers. as with a lot of things, i suppose cost and availability of goods comes into play
wood tends to be EQ resistant because it has some give to it without losing its structural integrity
It has give to it but structural integrity is much better with stone, concrete, cement.
Cost and availability is the #1 and only factor and you know it. Capitalists will always find the cheapest way to sell for the most money and in California it's been out of hand for a long time. I'm not a capitalist, but it's easy to understand why they do that.
Wood is cheaper per sq ft
Muricans want moar sq feet
Gotta be honest, drives me nuts seeing people misuse the term 'third world country'. Mexico was never aligned with the Soviet Union.
Watchutalkinabout willis? I'm not Mexican, btw.
multiple things wrong with this post.
A) The Soviet Union and Communist China was the Second World, not the Third World
B) DAF86 isn't from Mexico
C) Third World countries during the Cold War era were "all other countries" not aligned with either the West/NATO nor the Communist or Soviet powers, i.e. the poverty world. But since the fall of the USSR third world has adapted to generally meaning impoverished countries/countries with questionable crime and security and human rights, i.e. what the re ed woke-left started calling "developing" countries in the 2000s just like they tried to change "BC" and "AD" to "BCE" and "CE" in history books tbh.
same bull
California runs a $300Billion budget but couldn't prioritize keeping water hydrants full
State where environmentalists stand in the way of mandatory scrubbing and DEI exists
> "Deputy Fire Chief Kristine Larson says the department priority is that residents in crisis are rescued by first responders that “look like” them.
“You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency—whether it’s a medical call or a fire call—that looks like you,” Larson says."
How do you "fill" a water hydrant?
^ email response to DEI firefighters
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No, I asked you.
But since you're acknowledging "DEI" firefighters know way more than you do, I accept your deference to their superiority.
“LADWP was required to take the Santa Ynez Reservoir out of service..."
It was a human calculated decision.
Insurance companies were prepared. Elected leadership was not.
Hydrants - not full
So it wasn't the DEI firefighters at all?
Are you drinking now?
Your answer is to never maintain reservoirs?
MSM is working tirelessly to save Newsom here. He's scheduled to come out in less than 2 years as Presidential timber, and only him! He's White with Black tendencies, he's young, handsome, beautiful, and pure. He's it. If he can't be preserved over this FIRE business the D's have nobody else.
Burn, LA, burn!!!
Bend over, I've got some wood you can build a house with.
You completely don’t understand capitalism in the US for homes and apartments.
Also don’t understand earthquakes and what falls on you but that’s a different pick your poison subject.
btw, these are not log cabins. Wood is basically the skeleton for most homes.
Do you know what the walls and the roof consist of? And you also know people like TREES around their houses?
You know what trees are made of? In many of these fires in California there are so many trees involved as fuel you would be baked in your kiln brick house that would be missing everything inside it.
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Yall think you only have EQ up there?![]()
We have the combination of fuel (trees and undergrowth), O2 (winds) to create what is basically a BLAST furnace on the West Coast.
The year prior we had lots of rain which produced even more plant growth followed by a drought. Combine this with people living close together in a beautiful part of the world. It’s not like this has not happened before with our extreme variation in climate that we face now. No matter what you build with, once this blast furnace begins, you lose your home. It’s better to ask why California does not remove all the fuel for the fire including the very small % that goes into a home.
Dont build around fuel and high winds in drought conditions. Then your question makes sense. Packing people tightly together is indeed dangerous with wood housing. Any apartment complex made of wood is extremely dangerous in itself.
The interesting thing is that tens of thousands of people will NOT die like flooding in Bangladesh and India. Or earthquakes in Central Asia where people use the building material around them (Rocks) in heavily populated areas so they can die slowly or quickly when piles of cracked stone structures shake, collapse and crush them. ONE badly constructed high rise apartment without any wood can crush hundreds of people during one shaky night.
”The lights of LA shine brightly” as I saw it put with cruel subtlety. But I get it.
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