On Oct 25, 5:12 pm, "DonC" wrote:
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I dont live in or near California, but I am constantly seeing
disasters in that state which in my opinion are due to stupidity in
construction.

I hear you but you ought to expand your question to other areas such as
flood planes, hurricane risk areas, etc.

What really burns me up (no pun intended) is that people knowingly build in
high risk areas and when the inevitable disaster strikes, they expect and
demand that they get bailed out by tax payer dollars. Ditto for subprime
loan victims. "You take the risk; you pay the price."

And our politicians won't draw the line for fear they'll lose votes.

There! I feel somewhat better.


If you want to go further down this route, then you could easily say
nothing should be built in most of CA at all, because of the known
earthquake risk.

In the case of the fires, there isn't an easy solution. If you
required open spaces with nothing that will burn in them around each
building they would have to be quite large to be effective. Think
about what that would look like where you live. You'd have the new
subdivision look, where some developer either buys an open farm tract
or else clear cuts every tree in sight, and you wind up with a bunch
of houses where you have zero privacy. Look out your back window and
all you see is the house behind you. And if you did that in CA it
would create other issues, like erosion, mudslides in hills, loss of
more wildlife habitat, etc.

So far the last count I heard was they were up to 1600 homes lost.
Which sounds bad and is certainly one of the worst. But it's not
unprecedented compared to other events, like huricanes or earthquakes.