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Originally Posted by BigV
What kind of xeriscaping/preburning/covering with gravel can you do now before you spontaneously combust? I mean, around your dwelling that is.
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Realistically, none. For one thing, we have deed restrictions that wouldn't allow us to randomly cut down the trees and cover the yard with gravel. But that aside, we live in a typical cookie-cutter suburb, and the houses are minimum distance apart. We can't make our neighbors cut down all their trees too, and we can't make their houses scoot over 10 yards.
We're not really worried about the house burning down; and if it did, we have fire insurance, and an evacuation plan, including the things we would pack up in a hurry. But in this land of weirdos who care about having a lush, green lawn, I can easily see neighbors breaking out in fistfights if someone is caught watering when no one is allowed to.