I would bet a metal roof. I saw a picture of a house that appeared to be
about the same age as mine (1920) judging by the siding. It had a
Spanish tile roof which held up pretty well through an earthquake. The
house itself split in half along a horizontal line about half way up the
walls. Heavy roofs (among many other things) and earthquakes don't make
for happy home owners.
-jeff
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
That kind of thing happened in the Oakland hills fire in '91 too. We had
friends who were in a little cluster of undamaged homes and there were
several examples like that. When I was looking for a new roof shortly
thereafter, one salesman's favorite selling tool was a close-up aerial
view of a single undamaged house in the midst of complete devastation,
hardly a charred stick left standing anywhere around it. I ended up buy
that kind, mostly for structural reasons, but that picture sure didn't
hurt.
Moose
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