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> Your comment is like saying no one should bother building basements in tornado country because a strong F5 will kill you anyway. The vast majority of tornadoe

> Your comment is like saying no one should bother building basements in tornado country because a strong F5 will kill you anyway. The vast majority of tornadoes aren’t strong F5s so taking some precautions absolutely will save lives and property. No, my comment is like saying clearing 30 feet around your house is an absolute no-brainer, of course do it, but don't expect that alone to miraculously save you from a fire. Saying this as someone who's mountain cabin survived the Detweiler fire, largely because of vegetation control.

hueving 8y ago
>No, my comment is like saying clearing 30 feet around your house is an absolute no-brainer, of course do it Ok, but that's not what you said. You just ignored it completely like you were disregarding it. If it was such a no-brainer everyone would have done that in California, which was clearly not the case and it's why we're having this discussion now. It's like someone posting stats about seatbelts saving lives in response to tons of vehicle deaths where people weren't wearing seatbelts. Then you come along and point out that if you drive off a 500 ft cliff a seatbelt won't save your life and some of the deaths were caused by driving off of a cliff. Either the implication is that the safety mechanism would not have helped, or you are offering a useless observation that it's not making them impervious.
- haberman 8y ago
  > or you are offering a useless observation that it's not making them impervious. Considering that the original post literally used the phrase "could make homes basically impervious", I don't consider this a useless observation. I found it quite informative.
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pixl97 8y ago
>my comment is like saying clearing 30 feet around your house is an absolute no-brainer, of course do Watch the videos coming out of the area. These people have trees touching their homes.

hueving 8y ago

>No, my comment is like saying clearing 30 feet around your house is an absolute no-brainer, of course do it Ok, but that's not what you said. You just ignored it completely like you were disregarding it. If it was such a no-brainer everyone would have done that in California, which was clearly not the case and it's why we're having this discussion now. It's like someone posting stats about seatbelts saving lives in response to tons of vehicle deaths where people weren't wearing seatbelts. Then you come along and point out that if you drive off a 500 ft cliff a seatbelt won't save your life and some of the deaths were caused by driving off of a cliff. Either the implication is that the safety mechanism would not have helped, or you are offering a useless observation that it's not making them impervious.

haberman 8y ago
> or you are offering a useless observation that it's not making them impervious. Considering that the original post literally used the phrase "could make homes basically impervious", I don't consider this a useless observation. I found it quite informative.
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pixl97 8y ago

>my comment is like saying clearing 30 feet around your house is an absolute no-brainer, of course do Watch the videos coming out of the area. These people have trees touching their homes.