(September 15, 2022 at 7:46 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(September 15, 2022 at 5:11 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's going to be one of the problems in the us going forward. Structures that were originally built for relatively mild and dry fall seasons are seeing that integrity buffer erased. Single family units all the way up to commercial installations. The rated lifespans and suitability of alot of construction materials depend on numbers and situations that are no longer true, within regions in which they were widely employed. When they say your roof is for "twenty years" they actually mean a certain number of hours and wind that are historically present. Good luck with that shit in future. Used to be you could get federal relief to insure a beach house provided it was made a certain way - not for long.
Yet another reason to wake up day after day and fix our shit, or stack fat knots to pay people to fix our shit. Hopefully realtively disadvantaged people that work for less per hour than we do, to maxcimize the effect of our funds.
Fuck it. I say we ride this cannon ball straight to hell.
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