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Get Paid to Have the Safest House on Your Block!
Sign up for the Earthquake Brace+Bolt (EBB) program and find out if you qualify to receive a rebate of up to $3,000 towards a home retrofit. Weinstein Construction Company has passed the required FEMA training modules and can be found on the Earthquake Brace+Bolt Contractor List. What to Expect: Step 1 – Application Check out the Earthquake […]
The Folly of Earthquake Prediction
Will it happen in 5 years or 5 minutes? BREAKING NEWS from NASA has suggested that Los Angeles will likely be seeing a sizeable earthquake sometime in the near future. While the notion that it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” is enough to start rattling Angelinos nearly as much as a temblor itself, […]
Earthquake Efforts, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing
We here at Weinstein Construction Corporation want to give our readers a brief rundown of what’s going on in the world of earthquakes. Just in case you may have missed them, the New Yorker’s most recent article, ‘The Really Big One’, and Tuesday’s reddit AMA (“ask me anything”) session with a variety of earthquake experts […]
More Sunshine Means More Problems
Now that the cold snap has passed, Southern Californians get to enjoy the sunshine once again. But while the region hit record lows this holiday season, the record highs from last year still linger in the back of our minds. After Christmas in the 30’s, 93 degrees doesn’t seem so bad. But with temperatures potentially […]
Record lows can cause problems for homes in SoCal
The 2014 holiday season brought record lows to Southern California. A cold storm from Canada went south for winter and brought Southern California unusual cold for Christmas. The Los Angeles Times reported that there was a record low recorded at Los Angeles International Airport, according to Stuart Seto, a weather specialist with the National Weather […]
Water everywhere but not a drop to drink
California is not known for its rainy season. Now entering a fourth year of drought, the state will need three seasons of above-average rainfall to exit the dangerously dry zone. A bit about the drought Jay Famiglietti, senior water-cycle scientist of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, told the Los Angeles Times last month that […]
Earthquake Hazards
It’s More Than Just The Ground Shaking Anyone living in California should be pretty well aware by now of the various natural disasters to which the area is prone. Earthquakes are, of course, the number one concern on everybody’s mind. In recent news, though, there have been a number of fire hazard warnings issued by […]
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