• Dainterhawk999@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Florida is extremely humid, unlike Switzerland, grow mold, don’t breathe, and cause sickness.

    Concrete houses are still being made in the humid regions near the equator and will still be made in the long future… As for the mold problem, the houses are made such that water seepage is minimised heavily.

    Don’t wooden houses have the problem of termites making big joint families of their siblings?

    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      And full concrete houses are made in Florida currently. But the original question was why do some people prefer wood houses to concrete in Florida - and I gave a long list. Yes there are pros and cons to many materials. That’s not really the original question though, which was asked pretty insensitively and condescendingly in a thread about a very recent, ongoing disaster where they are still finding bodies.

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        29 days ago

        Maybe in proper houses they would be fixing broken windows instead of finding bodies.

        “it’s not the time to discuss solutions to this” seems to be the American way of dealing with any disaster, from hurricanes to mass shootings.

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          29 days ago

          A proper house won’t save people from fucking 25 FEET (7.6 meters) to 50 FEET of flooding in a hurricane. A ship can’t even save them because it’ll get knocked into houses. Same thing with a sub. There’s weather you can’t survive.

          it’s not the time to discuss solutions to this

          I never stated that. I am just unwilling to go over every building material pedantically when the problem - overwhelming climate events - isn’t going to be fixed with fucking concrete blocks.

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      29 days ago

      Termite infestations are rare. And they can be easily eliminated through pesticide control if you should be that unfortunate.