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The Mouth

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6. If you're going to build a home in a place that burns every 20-50 years

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue May 30, 2023, 10:10 AM

May 2023

and has for centuries, why should you expect anyone to insure it?

Here in Santa Rosa, they approved housing in an area that had burned heavily twice before (Fountaingrove). But the last time, in 1964, it was mostly just oak and shrubs.

And they let people rebuild! Out of the same materials.

We have 20 million too many people here in CA, and at least 200K too many in Sonoma County.

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State Farm to stop accepting homeowners insurance applications in California due to wildfires [View all] BumRushDaShow May 2023 OP

Yikes. That's scary. underpants May 2023 #1

Lots of problems in California TexasDem69 May 2023 #2

It must have been 20 years ago that the front page of USA today had a pic of a whole hillside of brewens May 2023 #3

When will we quit paying for Florida's PlutosHeart May 2023 #4

Right? Especially for 2nd homes More_Cowbell May 2023 #5

If you're going to build a home in a place that burns every 20-50 years The Mouth May 2023 #6

It's not the whole state though going through that BumRushDaShow May 2023 #7