Rules to Live By

Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay

Among the many heart-wrenching narratives from the recent catastrophic earthquake that impacted Turkey and Syria, none was more tragic than the realization that one of the principal reasons so many structures collapsed was that earthquake safety building codes had been willfully subverted.  Countless thousands of lives were sacrificed due to greed and criminal neglect.  The stringent construction rules, modified following a previous seismic tragedy, had been strengthened to guard against exactly the devastating outcome that played out on February 6^th.  No protective guidelines for any jurisdiction or community are worth the paper on which they are print