Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?

Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by simianparrot on Friday January 17, 2025 @05:27AM (#42736046)

> To be fair we are talking about an area of the country that is prone to seismic activity, it does limit the building materials.

Japan comes to mind as a country that's solved this.

> Where does LA get most of its water? Local sources? I don't think that's the case.

Relevant: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flame...

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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by niemandhier on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:06AM (#42736292)

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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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by galangalalgol on Friday January 17, 2025 @07:46AM (#42736965)

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?

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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by forgotmysn on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:23PM (#42742224)

Mexico is in the middle of a crippling drought

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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by umeshunni on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:44PM (#42744444)

what does that have to do earthquakes?

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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by contravariant on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:29AM (#42736439)

I would be interested to know how Japan combats wildfires. Historically at least it was quite a big problem, if I recall correctly.

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