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u/Juulk9087 15d ago
A fence? Of course the insurance company would cheap out. Just build a 3' thick rebar reinforced concrete wall. Not only will the wall not falter but his family will be safe.. and the house.
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u/Lancelot1893 15d ago
After the 2nd crash I would sell the house.
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u/RagnarL0thbr0k81 14d ago
Fr. U would think he would consider that at least by the 22nd. Dude is really testin fate at this point
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u/BrainMinimalist 14d ago
put a top-of-the-line gaming computer in the house along the wall where the cars hit. Then make your insurance pay purchase price for a 3 year old computer. "I paid $700 for that GTX 1080 TI!"
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u/Fluxus4 14d ago
There's 4 different houses being hit by cars. Did he just rebuild in a different style each time?
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u/Azzmo 14d ago
I think they used crash footage from other places/states/countries to beef up the video. None of those were hitting his house. The footage is misleading because his particular situation does not facilitate the airbound cars shown. He'd just need to put up a real concrete fence to be fully protected. Whatever the news story said about $40 million is either a government grift or a total road redesign because this particular property could be protected for a small fraction of that.
Here is the place. He basically lives at the abrupt end of an interstate offramp. Fucking insane.
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u/Kaindlbf 14d ago
why does it cost 40 million to build some fencing? govt spending is insane
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u/LordKrunk69 14d ago
Thousands for the materials and labor, millions to pay the people who decide how much material and labor they need.
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u/jfernandezr76 14d ago
The govt could just buy a nicer house and relocate the guy for 1/40th of that budget.
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u/BrainMinimalist 14d ago
Find some old farmer that dug a 10 foot boulder out of his field. that's stop a car
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u/Mind_Is_Empty 14d ago
Berryessa Road to Story Road is the entirety of North and South Jackson Avenue, which is 3 miles long.
That isn't to say they're not being wasteful. They expanded the scope far beyond the reasonable area. All they need to do is introduce some traffic control to the off-ramp earlier, such as adding a traffic light to Diadem Drive or Diana Plaza. Nobody would actually want to turn right on those minor roads, but going through lights would make people switch off freeway brain sooner.
Whoever ended up being the chosen culdesac to become a throughway would probably be pissed, though.
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u/RogerRavvit88 15d ago
I used to manage a rental home that had a problem just like this. It was at the bottom of a long hill that ended in a T with the home directly ahead of where you are forced to turn left or right. There was bad lighting and not the best visibility because the road leveled off at every cross street. All of these cross streets were uncontrolled intersections and the speed limit was like 25 but people would speed regardless. Perfect combination of factors for dumb shit to happen.
I had like 3 tenants in a row move out within a span of about 5 years because cars kept blowing through the T and hitting the home or their vehicles. After that I called the city and told them they need to put traffic lights or stop signs or something. They didn’t. But they did put a HUGE yellow and black reflective sign right in front of the home next to the driveway at the bottom of the hill like this one.
It never happened again as long as I managed it.
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u/SnooHesitations2928 Dr Pepper Enjoyer 14d ago
The City is responsible for this. They should be paying for all his damages.
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u/Outrageous-Room3742 15d ago
Not just 'into the house', into the second floor of his house. No fence is going to stop that.
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u/Nature_Enjoyer12 14d ago
Can't he put several steel hedgehogs on the front lawn to at least stop the low-hitting cars? I have no idea what to do about those that fly over to the second floor, though.
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u/United_Meaning_3880 14d ago
Lmfaooo 😂 insurance company puts up barriers: 30k Government puts up barriers: we need 40million…. 💀🤦🏽 DOGE!? Where’s DOGE?! Come take look at this… 😂
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u/Jeht_Black 12d ago
I feel like this is one of those situations where people have to die before they actually fix it.
There was an intersection by my house that led into a strip of restaurants. There were accidents all the time, 1 to 3 a month and it was like that for a few years. No amount of complaining lead to anything. Only after someone died there did they do something about it.
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u/Guru2425 12d ago
How about installing taller poles there insurance, oh wait you want to be cheap and your adjusters are too dumb to read the room.
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u/Guru2425 12d ago
That 40 million will be used as such
- 15% for talking points traffic study and media campaigns ($6,000,000)
- 75% for labor(mostly administrative staff and few actual construction workers)($30,000,000)
- 3% materials ($1,200,000)
- 7% on the celebratory pat on the back ($400,000)
- 6% of which will go to used to pay the talking heads and photo ops of how this will improve safety without actually improving safety, but gives you a reason to jack taxes up another 400% next year.($2,400,000)
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u/FollowTheEvidencePls 15d ago
Guy needs to sue the city and find himself a nice mansion to live in.