The San Andreas fault lies a good few miles inland from LA at this latitude. It converges on the coast, further north, at San Francisco.
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Or " Prefabs" .In the UK - don't we call structures built like that, "sheds...." ?
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You mean like the timber framed modular ones that are catching on here, as often featured in" Grand Designs" ?
Not sure - aren't those externally bricked skinned once erected though?
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As in Huff Houses . Just modern Prefabs . Pre fabricated for speed, cost effective and covering for the lack of skilled labour. Whats not to like ?
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Fur coat and no knickers....
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Not all of them, some are clad with profiled steel sheet.
I'll mostly be keeping out of this thread, my house construction, from the outside in*, is 150mm thick larch trunks, celotex, 38mm timber studs and lined inside with 20mm cedar planks. And it has a grass roof.
*Ignoring the various vapour and moisture barriers.
Just been watching BBCi, in one segment, ( edit, filmed in Altadena ), they showed a timber power cable pole hanging mid air from cables the bottom half burnt away, nothing.
While the horror and devastation doesn't escape me it did occur to me it might make and would look good in an art exhibition as a statement--maybe.
While the horror and devastation doesn't escape me it did occur to me it might make and would look good in an art exhibition as a statement--maybe.
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Some of the propagation was by fireballs propelled by high winds, but so far they've only gone up to 300 metres so you should be OK.
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yea the worst in years
realy feel sorry for folk either flooded out or fire ..used to get a fair few electrical callouts making stuff safe . was horible seeing folk in tears out on the street loosing the lot
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But a subtle difference…..they get dry and hot. You get wet, very wet, or exceedingly wet
Yes and we mustn't forget recent floods and loss here in the UK, smaller scale maybe, sorrow as great for those affected however it arrives.yea the worst in years
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But the thing is, you have not built it where there are annual bush fires.
I was involved in joint Strike Fighter manufacture in the area - machine tools needing sensors to shut down if vibration of the right type detected. Steel sructures needed certifying for earthquake resistance, everything secured to the floor etc.
No-one higher up could answer my question - why are you putting machine tools in an earthquake zone and not somewhere, anywhere, else in the US that isn't having hundreds of tiny quakes a day?
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Knowing the way things work either there was a monetary benefit or the boss man 's wife liked the view from the pool bar.
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News reports are saying that brush control was stopped years ago by the greenies.....
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now the vegitaion is gone/burnt along with everything else they'll get heavy rains now.....it's a no win situatiion...
Earth fault lines, thats why it's called shakey city......
the other problem that is never mentioned is overhead elec cables n Palm tree's....yes they have a policy or replacing the trees when they get too tall but I was there when a huge fire was started by a falling tree......2 square blocks ...the only house that survived had a tile roof.......!!!!!!!
u can now get fire proof fiberglass shake roof tiles/shingles...there are also thousands oh propeties with felt roofs.....
remember a lot of the houses are old and have been rattled a lot by quakes, they would/could not take the weight of concrete tiles as an add on.....
dont fancy having 2 tons plus of tiles over my head in a wooden framed house even if it was designed prop, esp with the quakes.....
FIRE...
there was no rain from Feb/March until Nov last year....average tem was in the high 30's....
simillar temps and probs here as S. Calif........
every spring we clean up all the pine needles and debri under the trees for that reason......
I have installed extra hose connections in the garden n driveway....hosed up n ready for use.....plus a petrol engined water pump in case I need the s/pool water.....
water line pressure is 100 PSI....
u need to be prepared........
pretty much every group of villages here has a manned fire applience on stand by 24x7 from June.....we often see f/fighting helicopters on training runs....
Glad to say fire is taken very seriously here...
Earth fault lines, thats why it's called shakey city......
the other problem that is never mentioned is overhead elec cables n Palm tree's....yes they have a policy or replacing the trees when they get too tall but I was there when a huge fire was started by a falling tree......2 square blocks ...the only house that survived had a tile roof.......!!!!!!!
u can now get fire proof fiberglass shake roof tiles/shingles...there are also thousands oh propeties with felt roofs.....
remember a lot of the houses are old and have been rattled a lot by quakes, they would/could not take the weight of concrete tiles as an add on.....
dont fancy having 2 tons plus of tiles over my head in a wooden framed house even if it was designed prop, esp with the quakes.....
FIRE...
there was no rain from Feb/March until Nov last year....average tem was in the high 30's....
simillar temps and probs here as S. Calif........
every spring we clean up all the pine needles and debri under the trees for that reason......
I have installed extra hose connections in the garden n driveway....hosed up n ready for use.....plus a petrol engined water pump in case I need the s/pool water.....
water line pressure is 100 PSI....
u need to be prepared........
pretty much every group of villages here has a manned fire applience on stand by 24x7 from June.....we often see f/fighting helicopters on training runs....
Glad to say fire is taken very seriously here...
