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Back in the late 70's my great aunt went up to her son's house for the Christmas holidays. Upon returning to her home, she had found the heater failed, the pipe burst, the floors buckled, the foundation shifted in some places. The insurance paid out 10's of thousands of dollars to repair the disaster.
I see the point now. Being on the grid, powered by natural gas and electric, using an american made heater is just not to be trusted. Americans and their engineering failures of the so called greatest generation from the WWII time period, well they just turned out to be a bunch of short bus losers too.
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Originally Posted by 1ntCobra
Back in the late 70's my great aunt went up to her son's house for the Christmas holidays.
I see the point now. Being on the grid, powered by natural gas and electric, using an american made heater is just not to be trusted. Americans and their engineering failures of the so called greatest generation from the WWII time period, well they just turned out to be a bunch of short bus losers too.
Personally I think you are being rather harsh on your Great Aunt....but then again I never met her.
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Personally I think you are being rather harsh on your Great Aunt....but then again I never met her.
I'm only being harsh on my Great Aunt as she was part of her failed generation that settled for less than perfection. How is it that she could accept that some failure with her heater, the natural gas or electric grid could cause the partial destruction of her home. Why wasn't there some sort of fail safe? Perhaps a redundant backup heating system built into her home to prevent the pipes from freezing.
We are certainly holding up a student project with far, far less damage caused by human error to up to a standard of perfection. Why not hold up the same standard to a 1950's build home/heating system where the heating system was NOT accidentally left turned off before leaving for a holiday vacation. If anything we should hold a real home that people live in to a higher standard than a student project that nobody expects to live in.
And what the heck was up with the building standards in the 1950's that my Great Aunt's house built 3 blocks from the bay in New Jersey was on a crawl space foundation 2 cinder blocks high off the ground? Why is it that it was not until decades later they realized that houses there should be built on pilings like 10 feet off the ground?
I have to agree with you 392cobra, all of us Americans with our college students, engineers, utility companies, building standard committees are all a bunch of losers who belong on the short bus.
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