protective enchantments / an atheist / creation / wooden houses

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:


> Here in California, brick and cinderblock buildings are not 
> such a good idea. They are called 'unreinforced masonry' 
> and collapse almost explosively in earthquakes.


zanooda:

That's understandable. But I live in Texas :-). OTOH, at some point of my life I lived in Israel, which is also in a seismic-active area, and they only have brick and stone buildings there, no wood (not that they have much of it :-)). I suppose they just don't have earthquakes as often as you do in California :-). I've only been through one that was rather strong and the houses stood well. It was very scary though. 


> Catlady wrote: 

> Built of wood with a layer of bricks on the outside? 


zanooda:

I've just found out it's called "brick veneer", I think :-).