This wouldn't have been my first guess. [ He's still preoccupied with the problem, but... god these giraffes were weird. Nice and charitable enough, but... ]

... Jane told me that the meteor fell two weeks ago, causing an enormous earthquake, and that the city has been rebuilding since then. I don't know a lot about giraffes and these huts, but if they're about as strong as the stone buildings I've seen in the city... [ Do you see where he's going with this? ]