Comment by ajsnigrutin

Comment by ajsnigrutin 3 months ago

Some of us live in reinforced concrete socialist-built apartment buildings, and our homes don't burn like american houses do. Same for single family houses made from brics and cement (most houses here)

Same for eg. gas explosions, this is one one looks like in us:

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/23081219122...

And this is one over here:

https://www.prlekija-on.net/uploaded/2018_11/eksplozija-plin...

Same for eg floods, pump the basements and ground levels, repaint, move stuff back in. Someone from US I work with on a project had a pipe burst while on vacation, and insurance wrote off their whole house, because of a few days of water.

I mean, sure, you could that, but looking at the photos from fire-affected areas, nobody did that, it's all burnt to the ground.

infecto 3 months ago

I think you missed the point. Its the same as me asking about the drab prisons you live in. Not to mention your cherry picked examples don't really hold up. A 2500sqft home filled with natural gas has a different explosive potential than a small apartment. I am also not sure it makes sense to build homes expecting for a natural gas explosion, not even a measurable risk. You can absolutely build a home that is fire resistant which most modern homes in fire risk areas are.

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tossandthrow 3 months ago

A lot of people do, in fact, talk like that about eastern european homes (them selves included).

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ajsnigrutin 3 months ago

Even single family homes are built from bricks and cement. Even large ones.
It's not just gas explosion, it's 'everything', fire, structural rigidity (only ground floor houses are rare, almost non existant here), and well.. they're built to last.
https://www.metropolitan.si/kronika/tovornjak-trcil-v-hiso-s... <- a truck hit a building, and old one, and you can see the damage... one wall. The girl in the room survived.
I mean... again.. you could build a home that is "fire resistant", and we do, but most americans don't, as we see in LA.

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- infecto 3 months ago
  
  I am not sure what built to last means and not sure if evidence exists that it makes much different over multiple generations. Those SFH built to last as you would say, will still undergo major renovations as technology improves and tastes change. Certainly when in areas that are prone for specific types of disasters, there should be designs to minimize risk but again that happens in the US but often (not always) these major disasters play out in areas of risk but the even is black swan compared to history.
  
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