Subject: Re: [Homestead] Build it right the first time
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:13:16 -0800
At 12/2/2004, you wrote:
And when we have the chance to re-build it, why should we build it the
same way and in the same place? Ultimately "natural disasters" are human
created disasters blamed on nature."
Take a look around at what survives such disasters. It is often the older
homes, homes built with local conditions in mind. National building codes,
build-for-a-price tract homes, and minimal national suppliers of building
materials combine to make a sameness of construction that to a large part
ignores local conditions. The tract home that gets blown away in a Florida
hurricane is essentially the same construction as the tract home that burns
in a California wild fire.