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Auggie

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6. Potential for being buried in an earthquake ...

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 07:01 AM

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saw that in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood in 1989. Carports usually are not designed with the same load-bearing ability of residential units unless that's been changed in newer building codes. That will have to be addressed.

Even then ... tiny, dark, claustrophobic, and very scary.

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