California Wildfires, 2014

[I-25]

I almost lost my house in the 07' harris fire.

seems theres quite a few of us San Diegans on subsim.
We should start a SD charter

[Platapus]

Back in the 1970's when I lived next to the LA national forest (prime brush fire area), there was actually a city ordinance that REQUIRED all of the houses to have roofs made of wood shake shingles. You could not have ceramic or any of the artificial wood shingles. By law, we had to have a very flammable roof material.

Dry, wood shingles on a house where there are brush fires almost on a yearly basis. What could possibly be wrong with that?

It was not until the 1980's that people were able to start replacing roofs with a synthetic wood shingle that, honestly, looked way better than real wood.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Back in the 1970's when I lived next to the LA national forest (prime brush fire area), there was actually a city ordinance that REQUIRED all of the houses to have roofs made of wood shake shingles. You could not have ceramic or any of the artificial wood shingles. By law, we had to have a very flammable roof material.

Dry, wood shingles on a house where there are brush fires almost on a yearly basis. What could possibly be wrong with that?

It was not until the 1980's that people were able to start replacing roofs with a synthetic wood shingle that, honestly, looked way better than real wood.

The wooden roofs look good.

Nothing wrong with it, IF your city wants to keep the money flowing to the lumber yards.

Plastic roofs are okay, I prefer steel, tho.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

The wooden roofs look good.

When the wood shake shingles are new, yes, it does look nice. But after baking in the CA sun for 3-5 years, they did not look so good.

[fireftr18]

An article with some nice pictures

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/1391...-diego-county/