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niemandhier01/17/20252 repliesview on HN

Sure Japan did it, so did Mexico. The latter is probably much more important as an example for the US.

https://www.preventionweb.net/news/not-drill-how-1985-disast...


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galangalalgol01/17/2025

Many of the gouses burning weren't built to current codes, but the cost to retrofit houses to code was insurmountable by any of the owners and apparently by the state or even the nation. So they will just wait for them all to burn and then rebuild them I guess?

forgotmysn01/17/2025

Mexico is in the middle of a crippling drought

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