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Posted on 1/8/25 at 10:08 pm to stout
I was on the road a good bit the last decade and those days are over. But the most surreal and scary remnants I’ve ever seen of anything was Paradise,CA from fall of 2018 to 2019.
Seeing a modern town from the main road with hollowed out cars everywhere while looking up at only foundations on the hillside is emotionally deafening. I’ve still never experienced anything like that silence there.
I passed what looked like a massive trailer setup for a film crew on the way in, but learned the next day that it was the entire town in those trailers.
Seeing a modern town from the main road with hollowed out cars everywhere while looking up at only foundations on the hillside is emotionally deafening. I’ve still never experienced anything like that silence there.
I passed what looked like a massive trailer setup for a film crew on the way in, but learned the next day that it was the entire town in those trailers.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 10:20 pm to stout
Fire or flood, I think i take flood. You have something to come back to. Some things you thought would survive a flood won't and others will surprise you and make it. Fire it's just a slab.
Posted on 1/8/25 at 10:25 pm to stout
Even if your house is under 20 fr of water everything is soaked, molded or water damaged....somehow that seems better than reduced to ash.
I'm with you....out of the 2 give me the hurricane
I'm with you....out of the 2 give me the hurricane
Posted on 1/9/25 at 10:52 am to scott8811
Looks like these are a lot better as far as fire resistance as well.
https://monsterconstructors.com/residential-icf/
So if you have a basement or airtight interior room where you can get away from the heat and smoke coming in through your exterior windows and you keep some air tanks down there seems like you’d be able to ride it out.
If I was a Hollywood star spending 20 million on a new mansion right at the foot of a national forest in a place like CA where fire prevention is such a SNAFU seems like it would have been a good idea to go with this type of construction, and include a safe room with oxygen.
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ICF house
https://monsterconstructors.com/residential-icf/
So if you have a basement or airtight interior room where you can get away from the heat and smoke coming in through your exterior windows and you keep some air tanks down there seems like you’d be able to ride it out.
If I was a Hollywood star spending 20 million on a new mansion right at the foot of a national forest in a place like CA where fire prevention is such a SNAFU seems like it would have been a good idea to go with this type of construction, and include a safe room with oxygen.
This post was edited on 1/9/25 at 10:54 am
Posted on 1/9/25 at 11:10 am to OMLandshark
quote:Such a gross simplification
You can prevent a firestorm by properly culling the brush
Posted on 1/9/25 at 11:20 am to stout
Having experienced both I will take a hurricane 10 times out of 10. You have some warning with a hurricane that gives you time to move to a safe area. The speed and ferocity which these wildfires move is terrifying.
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