And of course when another child was born a bit more house was tagged onto the main building if space allowed.
They were the days eh
Jay.
Picking on Brits a Bit
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They were the days eh
Jay.
Oh, we did a lot of building crap housing over rich farmland. The San Fernando Valley is a perfect example of it.
I thought quirky products were considered part of British culture.
Regarding brick versus stick construction, guess which does better in earthquakes.
Cloaca is the anatomical word,I believe.
”vent” is the colloquial
Thankfully we don't have many earthquakes in these parts rather like most of the US. California is the only earthquake hotspot I believe.
I read the excellent Simon Winchester book 'A Crack In The Edge Of The World: America And The Great California Earthquake Of 1906' and that made me very thankful I didn't live there. It's only a matter of time before the next 'Big One'!
That said, living in a wooden house, I'd never sleep for fear of it burning down. Once those stick houses get going, there's no putting them out.
Jay.
I'm very familiar with most of it.....but only by sticking my hand up the vent to pull the rest of it out
Turkey livers make a splendid pate, I made tons of the stuff. Also their eggs make great omelettes though the yolks are rather pale. I used to collect the eggs at the turkey farm (they were normally just wasted) and sold them to an egg dealer on Sudbury market.
No news from the Forum's favourite Welshman aka @Flatfish. Methinks either he got blown away in the recent gales or his power is down.
Jay.
I have to admit, I was actually unaware of this unique anatomy issue...
Hey, we do that too!!
It's either a poorly built cookie-cutter subdivision or many acres of Amazon warehouses. Either way, farmland goes away, crappy construction appears.
Your first paragraph is not true. I do seismic engineering stuff at work. New York City and northern Jersey are in seismic zones. There is a huge zone in the Ozarks that is past due for seismic shift.
To your third paragraph- we have concrete fire barriers between our wood-framed row homes.
All in all though i think Americans should get back to homes made of more permanent materials. It would cost more, but we could offset that by reducing our average square footage per house (and yard). I see a lot of unused yards and spare rooms in the average American family home.
I do love the turn this thread has taken, heading into architectural discourse. I recently read a book by Bill Bryson, called At Home. He’s a writer who has lived much of his life in England + America, where he takes a deep dive into our architectural differences, and the reasons for them.
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dnr.mo.gov
According to the Missouri DNR , there was a humongous one (and aftershocks) in the winter of 1811-1812 . Estimated mag 7.0 + .
Facts about the New Madrid Seismic Zone | Missouri Department of Natural Resources
While not as well known for earthquakes as California or Alaska, the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), located in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois, is the most active seismic area in the United States, east of the Rocky...
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Alaska is the US hot spot. California is certainly up there though and , as far as major damage, has a larger population and may more built up areas so, if/when they ever get a major quake it could be catastrophic.
Californicators just whine a lot more than Alaskans, that’s all.
The '64 Alaska quake was the worst ever recorded in US history , 9.2 magnitude ! 131 killed !
What a horrible mess !
1964 Alaska earthquake - Wikipedia
They should have never built where they did in Anchorage and I've read that they've re-built there again...The '64 Alaska quake was the worst ever recorded in US history , 9.2 magnitude ! 131 killed !
What a horrible mess !
1964 Alaska earthquake - Wikipedia
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Too much time has gone by to remember? Don't know...
I feel like there was a desired shift around the 08-09 mess that lasted a little while, then the size thing started creeping back up before totally blowing up after 2020. Now everyone needs their own bedrooms, everyone needs their offices, etc., etc.
Everyone around me keeps adding additions or knocking down to build 2-3x the house that was there while I sit in my sub-1000 square foot home feeling like it's kind of spacious.
Wouldn't want any smaller yards though. Don't need to start over crowding out here. it's busy enough.
I'm going to plead guilty. I developed my family's farmland this last year. Most of our farming is moving to Mexico, because the money sucks.
I don't mind not having houses that'll last 1000 years. Heck, in my neighborhood, the trend is to buy, knock down and build what you want. Maybe Americans are just too individualistic to live in a house designed by someone else. We all want our own space to meet our own specs.
So if your let's say grandfather left you the totally unique house that he built with his own blood, sweat and money, you wouldn't feel a certain amount of pride in living in it yourself, and with a view to passing it on to one of your offspring?
*Serious question.
Jay.
Oh, I used to own my grandfather's house. I let my sister live in it for a while, and then sold it. It was torn down before i started developing the land.
I owned by dad's house for a while, but... why would I want to hang on to their flimsy paper houses? Ha ha.
@mawnansmiff I would definitely want to live in my ancestral home. My father had no choice but to sell the house that my grandfather built. But he and I and the whole family would have loved to have kept it if possible.
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