Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Because nearly everything here is bricks and mortar with wood only used to form part of the structure. I'm sure a brick structure would have stood up to the hurricane better than a wooden one.

Originally Posted by Burning Down

Most things here are concrete and steel, and some older buildings are stone and brick. The only wood frames here are found mostly in older structures and houses (most new houses now have steel frames with brick walls).

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

It certainly varies a reasonable amount from place to place within the US.

Originally Posted by Rjinn

I've never seen a wooden house in Australia before...



That's what I thought. Which states/cities are they more frequent in?

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Rjinn

That's what I thought. Which states/cities are they more frequent in?

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Wooden houses? I'd say they're probably most common in the northeast.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I watched Salems Lot again last night and that was in Maine, and those wooden houses went up a treat when set on fire!

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Yeah, I'm surprised they still build houses out of wood in Maine with all those vampires around.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I watched Salems Lot again last night and that was in Maine, and those wooden houses went up a treat when set on fire!

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I watched Salems Lot again last night and that was in Maine, and those wooden houses went up a treat when set on fire!

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.