>>3946196
California, like Portugal, is filled with a species of tree known as OAK. Most oak species have a thick corky bark that protects them during forest fires and prevents the fire from killing the tree, or travelling up into the canopy. In fact a common oak species in Portugal is actually called CORK and provides a material used to make wine bottle stoppers, and bulletin boards for thumbtacks to live on.
Google Portugal wildfire and you will see similar fires.
However, portuguese are not STUPID like the DUMB American assholes with their dumbed down education system who think it is OK to live in a Mediterranean climatic ecosystem in wooden houses. The Portuguese at least are smart enough to build houses with stone and concrete and thick clay tile roofs.
If you are in a position to rebuild in California, then use concrete and avoid any wood or flammable materials except for decorative use inside the house. This means lots of arches and unusual looking roofs that have NOT WOODEN TRUSSES in them. And it means digging an UNDERGROUND GARAGE for automobiles, and making it very auto unfriendly near the house, in case guests try to come visit in cars. Perhaps you did not realize that parking tanks of highly flammable petrochemicals beside your home is plain STOOPID.
And another thing. Why don't you have an underground panic room set up with its own oxygen supply to last a few hours? Did you think the fires won't come back?
USE LOGIC and use science and lots of people can live in California in safety.
By the way, check out the EMERGY rating of concrete compared to any other building material. If you don't understand Emergy then you are NOT and environmentalist and do NOT CARE about the environment.
Embodied Energy = EMERGY
http://thepathtosustainableliving.blogspot.com/2014/01/concrete-can-you-reduce-its-embodied.html
And with steel plants producing slag again, you can build the new house out of even better concrete than in the past.
Trump has barely even started on rebuilding America's infrastructure. This is one element of it that could make California a leader in Making AMERICA Great Again