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I recently read something (cant find the link, sorry) about having a generator and pump on-site, and then pumping water from your swimming pool to your sprinkle

I recently read something (cant find the link, sorry) about having a generator and pump on-site, and then pumping water from your swimming pool to your sprinklers. I suppose not everyone has a pool, but collecting rainwater etc in an underground sump could be sufficient. You could even imagine a closed-system that collects rain/sprinkler water from the roof guttering and drains around the property and channelling them into the pool/sump. You'd lose a lot of water to evaporation/steam in a fire I guess, but it could buy you some time. The other alternative I guess is just dont build your house out of combustible materials. I guess some stuff might just melt in hot-enough conditions, but by that stage where ceramics and metals are just melting in ambient temperatures I think its pretty much a game-over situation regardless... but before that extreme you can probably get a lot of mileabe by building your houses out of brick (there seems to be a lot of brick foundations left in the footage I am seeing on TV)

rconti 8y ago
I'd say very few people, relatively speaking, have pools in CA.
- Domenic_S 8y ago
  California has the most residential pools of all the states - over 1.5 million inground and aboveground units. PDF warning: http://www.apsp.org/Portals/0/2016%20Website%20Changes/2015%20Industry%20Stats/2015%20Industry%20Stats.pdf http://www.apsp.org/Portals/0/2016%20Website%20Changes/2015%...
  - makr17 8y ago
    Well, yes. But California _also_ has the highest population of the states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population#State_rankings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... Might be more fruitful to look at a per-capita metric?
    - Domenic_S 8y ago
      Imagine a state that has only two houses, both with a pool. 3 people live in one house, 1 person lives in the other. That’s 0.5 pools per capita, but for our purposes is a sufficient number of pools - 1 pool per structure.
  - lozaning 8y ago
    Silly metric though. We have the most people/homes so of course we have the most pools. Arizona kicks our ass in the number of pools per person though.
  - rconti 8y ago
    So, we're in the low double-digits in terms of percentage? Seems like relatively few. As in, it's not uncommon to live here and not know anyone with a pool.
- idontpost 8y ago
  Depends on the neighborhood. They're fairly common in upper-middle class or nicer neighborhoods.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    Upper-middle-class or nicer neighborhoods are a fairly small share of all neighborhoods.
dragonwriter 8y ago
> but before that extreme you can probably get a lot of mileabe by building your houses out of brick (there seems to be a lot of brick foundations left in the footage I am seeing on TV) Brick construction itself is seismically unsound, which makes it a bad choice for California. You can use brick cladding to make a building more fire resistant, though, but this isn't a panacea.

rconti 8y ago

I'd say very few people, relatively speaking, have pools in CA.

Domenic_S 8y ago
California has the most residential pools of all the states - over 1.5 million inground and aboveground units. PDF warning: http://www.apsp.org/Portals/0/2016%20Website%20Changes/2015%20Industry%20Stats/2015%20Industry%20Stats.pdf http://www.apsp.org/Portals/0/2016%20Website%20Changes/2015%...
- makr17 8y ago
  Well, yes. But California _also_ has the highest population of the states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population#State_rankings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... Might be more fruitful to look at a per-capita metric?
  - Domenic_S 8y ago
    Imagine a state that has only two houses, both with a pool. 3 people live in one house, 1 person lives in the other. That’s 0.5 pools per capita, but for our purposes is a sufficient number of pools - 1 pool per structure.
- lozaning 8y ago
  Silly metric though. We have the most people/homes so of course we have the most pools. Arizona kicks our ass in the number of pools per person though.
- rconti 8y ago
  So, we're in the low double-digits in terms of percentage? Seems like relatively few. As in, it's not uncommon to live here and not know anyone with a pool.
idontpost 8y ago
Depends on the neighborhood. They're fairly common in upper-middle class or nicer neighborhoods.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  Upper-middle-class or nicer neighborhoods are a fairly small share of all neighborhoods.

dragonwriter 8y ago

> but before that extreme you can probably get a lot of mileabe by building your houses out of brick (there seems to be a lot of brick foundations left in the footage I am seeing on TV) Brick construction itself is seismically unsound, which makes it a bad choice for California. You can use brick cladding to make a building more fire resistant, though, but this isn't a panacea.