Start with fire. You are going to build a fireproof house. Once you have a plan to build a fireproof Los Angeles house build an architectural model using the same materials, say an aluminum foil roof etc. Then take a blow torch and hold it to your model for a day. Dena means valley, Pasadena, Altadena…A valley is a wind tunnel.
Say you have
a surviving model. Then blast it with your garden hose, raising the water level
to half the level of your model. Desert valleys flood. Make sure your model is
somehow anchored, so it doesn’t float or slip away. Check your model for mold.
The seals on your model must survive fire and flood.
Then take a
large pail of gravel and dump the gravel from some height on the steel framed model
with the fancy Swiss made seals. Valleys also have rockslides. Make sure your
model can withstand the landslide without moving.
After that,
take the entire diorama, including the model, lift it up and bang it on the
table as hard as you can. Earthquake proof means the house holds together long
enough for you to escape.
If you have
such a house and you have somehow convinced a company to give insurance, the
question remains: why would you want to?
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In the news,
I have noticed that the houses are gone, and the lawns are green. What this
suggests to me is that people turned on their sprinklers before they left. One
person even “put their hose on their eaves”. If everyone did this that explains
the loss of water pressure. They saved their lawns and lost their houses.
Don’t put
propane tanks, eucalyptus trees, electric cars or lawns in the path of a fire.
There are
also the drones. People are flying drones to survey the desolation, catch some
cool video of planes dousing the fire and see if the alerts are correct. Then
the water planes can’t fly because of drones in their way.
It is
expected that people are first warned if the fire is nearby, giving them time
to get ready and then told to evacuate, jamming the exits. Treat this like a hurricane,
people should evacuate on the warnings. Instead
of lugging valuables, have a fireproof safe.
If you can’t
get insurance that is unacceptable risk. When insurance companies raised
premiums or cancelled coverage, they told the world months before that this was
going to happen. If the insurance company won’t take the bet, why should you?