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The whole way houses and cities are built in California is to blame for this tragedy (not discounting the effects of global warming of course). It's high time
by luckydata 8y ago
The whole way houses and cities are built in California is to blame for this tragedy (not discounting the effects of global warming of course).
It's high time California realizes building wood framed boxes with walls of compressed paper with no defensible space between the wilderness and the houses is a BAD idea and we start building with more sensible materials like concrete, bricks and stone like Europe has been doing for centuries - because it works.
- pixl97 8y agoEh, telling people to build with brick in earthquake zones is a bad idea. Of course putting pine trees beside houses in fire zones is a bad idea too.
- luckydata 8y agoEver heard of concrete? Also, there's plenty of earthquake resistant techniques you can apply to masonry. Mediterranean houses are all built with steel-reinforced concrete and bricks even now and there's all kinds of seismic activity over there. https://clay-wienerberger.com/expertise/brick-buildings-for-seismic-prone-areas https://clay-wienerberger.com/expertise/brick-buildings-for-...