Comment Re:It's OK! (Score 1) 143
milking the internet herd for 100's of billions is legendary, and ongoing for decades.
milking the internet herd for 100's of billions is legendary, and ongoing for decades.
shingles made with oil based products, house painted with oil based products.
House made of dried firewood.
Meanwhile Adobe Ovens do not burn.
If he had built his house out of Adobe it would be about as flammable as an Adobe oven.
California was home to mexicans, native americans like myself, and a small outpost of Russians as well.
You can find some of the native american names out in the wilderness areas, and the major
cities still hold mexican names to this day.
Tell me more.
When a racket has billions backing the propaganda your fighting a losing battle.
I don't trust the fossil fuel folks, but I also don't trust the ppl caught in the hadley CRU scandal.
The reduction in cutting of firebreaks does explain it though.
The expansion of housing into areas that are prone to wildfires and mudslides
also explains it.
If the houses were made of Adobe, and active firebreak management was
done the problem would still exist, but much less prone to major disaster.
They have been funneling water from other states for decades, and pumping the ground
water to depletion in some areas to green the area so it has given a false sense of environment to some.
This poster is correct, the CALFIRES ppl had warned back in 2015 it was a disaster
waiting to happen, but they were for the most part blown off.
If they had turned lose the bulldozers for firebreaks and controlled burns
this could have been much less damaging.
The fires would have happened still, but they'd have been easier to fight,
and less likely to spread, and access via firebreak roads would have
allowed a 2nd layer of making the fires easier to fight.
In this case an ounce of prevention would have been worth a mountainside of cure.
My recommendation for recurring fires in California is a return to good firebreaks,
and an incentive to build out of Adobe as it does not burn if you make sure no wood
is exposed.
https://www.pinterest.com/kate...
Some modern Adobe buildings look damn nice too.
Yes, lightning is a huge factor.
I have hiked many miles in many forests, and I almost always see one lightning struck tree.
It has been this way for all my life, and I got a few decades behind me.
Now most of them in my area do not trigger a wildfire because we get quite a
bit of rain as this is not a desert.
As I said in my other related post the areas that get lightning but little rain
it can get ugly.
"During 2007-2011, U.S. local fire departments responded to an estimated average of 22,600 fires per year that were started by lightning. "
http://www.nfpa.org/News-and-R...
22,000 per year....yeah I knew it was high, didn't know it was THAT high.
In major fires in the rock layers you will get an Ash layer similar to the KT boundary.
Thou of course it will not be as pronounced as the KT boundary and limited in geological area.
I think lightning strike started wildfires are far more common then 1 or 2 a century.
Especially in areas that are very dry and get lightning with little to no rain, such as desert.
Sometimes its just about ppl flagrantly lying and getting caught at it.
https://www.realclearpolitics....
I believe we are polluting the planet horribly, but lying about it isn't helping.
That is funny, but not impossible.
Yeah, those lazy ppl who are liked and respected company wide who have
shown up reliably for 30 years and kept the Winblows boxes blowing.
So lazy.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
