Mass timber!

You can do five stories of wood with no concrete at all in high seismic zones here. Tons of hardware in the walls though.

Yeah. My point was that requiring everyone to rebuild completely non combustible houses is overkill when we already have standards for wood buildings

The wind during that fire was extremely intense... That seems to be the biggest factor

Yes I know I was talking about places like Paradise

I know that in Altadena barely any of the areas that burned were in a mapped WUI zone and the houses were almost all older than the code anyway

Which houses survived wildfire? Often, those built to code The sky was turning orange and the embers were flying from the Camp Fire when Oney and Donna Carrell and Donna's father sped away from their Paradise home.

Here is a news story comparing old vs new codes in actual fires www.ksl.com/article/news...

Right that was because of the crazy strong winds. Embers were being carried way ahead of the main fire and there was no defensible space around the houses either because it wasn't considered a WUI zone. Embers get into roof vents and the house goes up very fast. The study I saw was in Santa Rosa.

In a fire like that everyone is pretty fucked - they built the neighborhoods in the forest. Even without the fuel of the houses it was a very intense fire. In more suburban areas where you are more concerned with embers (which is more typical) the 7a provisions work well

Chapter 7a of the CBC applies in mapped WUI areas and it has been very effective in preventing combustion when compared to older homes in the same area.

Our fire trucks are not any more capable than the ones in Europe. In many ways they are much less effective- but they are larger

The truth of this is that with fires getting more intense there is not that much we can do other than steering future development out of WUI areas but WUI areas are expanding as it gets hotter

Houses built to current codes burn much less and this was scientifically studied after the Santa Rosa fires. There was a huge difference.

Sure but they are also extremely carbon intensive and we have the technology to make modern wood buildings that resist fire and perform better in general. Land use patterns in Europe vs US have a lot more to do with this than building materials

Right but those buildings are also terrible in earthquakes

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So the peace deal lasted until the markets closed on Friday

Highlight of a site visit yesterday

Right but it makes new construction much harder to pencil out

This is an unappreciated thing in San Francisco where east side upzoning contained a lot of parking lots and industrial buildings vs the west side with $2 million houses on 25' wide lots

I have this graphic saved from ages ago

You also need the existing uses not to be so profitable the new development won't pencil out at the upzoned density (or for parcel assembly to be impossible)

Lol no

He's picking and choosing the wrong stuff though

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Words are inadequate.

Even further south than Buffalo

Mexico—a nation with 1/17th GDP of USA—is rolling out universal healthcare to its 130M citizens.

Starting April 13, Mexicans 85+ will have access to universal healthcare. By Jan 2027, Mexico will expand universal healthcare to all people, with full coverage of drugs, lab tests, etc by 2030.

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These seem like reasonable demands TBH