"We will rebuild" is repeated a lot after climate disasters nowadays. Sadly, i don't think you can "rebuild it back like it was" and expect different results and a repeat nowadays.
Personally, I think the Japanese have the right idea with "Tsunami Stones"
Smithsonian: These Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan’s Coastline
“Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.”
In events like this the fire on the wind is like a blowtorch directed at the structures, which sets fire to everything in and of the building at the same time, so even if the house is resistant everything inside will burn anyway.
Australia is interesting, their eucalypts can generate enough volatiles to make the air flammable, and I think I've seen some of that in LA.
The media storm around the question does smell a little of Big Oil propaganda.
@godzero @zl2tod @ai6yr Engineering a fireproof house, can be done. But it also has to look pretty. And be affordable. But not /too/ affordable, because then you will get local government opposition - people don't want the lower socioeconomic classes moving in to their neighbourhood. The problem is people.
The same is true of energy use. You can make efficient homes, but people love their huge expanse of sun-facing glass, and mitigating the heat through heavy air conditioning.
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Collective memory or learning from the mistakes of the past just isn’t a thing most in the species do.
Otherwise we wouldn’t be talking about ending things like the polio vaccine.
If you were a kid in the 70’s environmentalism was a thing. We had Woodsy Owl and Captain Planet and all sorts a people talking about climate doom; while the adults ridiculed Carters sweaters and solar panels.
There was a huge “oil crisis” then. Remember odd and even gas days? If we’d listened to, instead of laughed at, Carter we could be leading the world in alt-fuels.
I’ve about given up on the human race because it just seems to be too self centered and stupid to not annihilate itself.
@ai6yr too much thinking...
you know who *does* seem to learn the lessons of the past? People who want to exploit other people for fun and profit.
People keep pointing to German history and current USian happenings and drawing parallels.
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Maybe put them up in the WUI over houses that have burned down
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@ai6yr I think any homes need to be built to better withstand fire. Thick concrete isn't sexy, but more practical, as well as stone, and to a lesser extent, brick.
In Palm Coast, FL, it took my BIL three years to get his home built, to required specs that mean it can withstand most hurricanes.
Fire is much harder to build against, but I remember one house that had thick cement walls that survived some years back, while none of the other wood frame homes made it.
@mizblueprint @ai6yr Appreciated.
Just want to note that fire+earthquake resistant/proof building/retrofit is out of the cost range of most people. Hence, trade offs.
@ai6yr @ghouston it's also a very small place. We have two EMTs for the whole region, one journalist, one funeral person who deals with all death care, two cops.
When I say anarchy broke out, I mean it. After the storm the social order completely fell apart and so did the roles of individuals.
People took on the roles in front of them. I personally moonlighted as EMT twice, an ambulance once, a makeshift pet shelter, an emergency wildlife vet more times than I could possibly count, taxied around people I had never met while eating food given to me by strangers cooking on the street.
Pretty much all doors and gates were open. People removed stuff from damaged properties in informal volunteer treams. It was common to see a group of random people taking stuff out of someone else's house. It literally never occurred to me once this could be looting.
I cannot stress enough that pretty much everyone in town has access to a rifle. I didn't see one or hear about one being anywhere other than a in safe through the whole ordeal.
The town still isn't the same months later. The infrastructure is still damaged but the anarchy hasn't quite gone either. The old social order and roles haven't managed to re-establish the control they previously had.
@ai6yr I think the Comment by Fumihiko Imamura is a bit of overly wishful thinking (more so in most western cultures these days)
""It takes about three generations for people to forget. Those that experience the disaster themselves pass it to their children and their grandchildren, but then the memory fades," Fumihiko Imamura, a professor in disaster planning at Tohoku University, told the AP."
I would bet its more at 1 generation if you are lucky!
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