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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
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 bullB) DAF86 isn't from Mexico
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?
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