Dust storm in Australia

[LoadsaMoney]

Bit daft really aint they, prone to those huge bush fires, so they make houses/towns out of wood.

Ive always wondered why, when the news reports bush fires destroying millions of homes over there, wiping out towns etc.., as you would think they'd have cottoned on by now

Like all those daft buggers who have built cities on those fault lines, prone to earthquakes you know here, ahh so what, lets whack 50 million 200 story skyscrapers up on em, be fine.

 

[Sankari]

Bit daft really aint they, prone to those huge bush fires, so they make houses/towns out of wood.

Ive always wondered why, when the news reports bush fires destroying millions of homes over there, wiping out towns etc.., as you would think they'd have cottoned on by now

Like all those daft buggers who have built cities on those fault lines, prone to earthquakes you know here, ahh so what, lets whack 50 million 200 story skyscrapers up on em, be fine.

I'm not sure why you're raising the issue of bushfires in a thread that's actually about dust storms.

But to address your query: most of the wood houses were built by the people who first established these villages ~100 years ago, when nobody was really thinking much about bushfires. Having said that, most of the houses destroyed in the bushfires were actually brick and stone.

Here's a brick church in Kingslake:

And here's a brick house from the same village:

If the fire is big enough, it won't care what your house is made of.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

^ Agreed. And wooden houses on fault lines actually make a great deal of sense. I'm also slightly puzzled by his post.

 

[mac1st3]

Bit daft really aint they, prone to those huge bush fires, so they make houses/towns out of wood.

Ive always wondered why, when the news reports bush fires destroying millions of homes over there, wiping out towns etc.., as you would think they'd have cottoned on by now

Like all those daft buggers who have built cities on those fault lines, prone to earthquakes you know here, ahh so what, lets whack 50 million 200 story skyscrapers up on em, be fine.

the Japanese use paper in walls to make them lighter so when there's an earthquake there's less heavy rubble killing people. also their tallest building (forget the name) is built pretty much earthquake proof

 

[Dark_Angel]

Have to say that it looks absolutely amazing.

Imagine how long it will all take to clean up later though!

 

[theNude]

am currently living in Sydney, was pretty awesome to wake up with a red glow to the world, it wasnt city stopping like they are making out, wasnt even that bad to go out in, i walked to work (6k) into the city and other than having a dirty taste in my mouth wasnt that bad at all. any window left open in the flat now has orange dust on everything, makes for good pictures though, got some over bronte beach and it looks cool.