Posted on 11/30/2016 8:12:55 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
That map must’ve been generated by a Tennessee source because the fires surely do not end at the Tennessee state line, they’ve been bad in NC and GA for sure, one 25,000 acre fire on the NC-GA border.
Muslims have been setting many fires throughout Israel, causing much devastation. Could this terrible tactic have spread to the USA?
If so, the responsible Muslims and their Families must be quickly and severely dealt with.
Islam needs to be expunged from the face of the earth
“ITS A STATE PARK FOR GOODNESS SAKE”
Not those hotels and other structures. Gatlinburg is not in the park.
It was. It’s from a TN newspaper.
It was. It’s from a TN TV station.
http://fox17.com/news/local/two-arrested-for-arson-in-tennessee-at-least-one-ignited-wildfire
they dont look jihadi to me....
Four now. Some people are missing. Forty-five injured.
Eastern hardwood forests are a different animal than western softwood forests. Western softwoods contain large amounts of pitch which when superheated will vaporize and become a very volatile fuel. Eastern hardwoods however contain little pitch but vast quantities of water they will not “burst” into flame as seen in western fires, especially when in a vertical position. These were mainly ground fires from dry leaf litter. The treetop fires can be seen to be in the leaves that have not fallen, and the softwoods that are much more sparse than in the west.
The fire spread so quickly that it caught locals unaware up on the mountainside. There were also tourists renting those cabins. They wouldn’t know the dire situation they were in. Probably will be more, sad to say.
The woods there are mixed deciduous and evergreen, not “hardwood forests.” Pines and poplars most certainly will explode when struck by lightning or burnt, I’ve seen it.
Fires in NC, too.
When trees are “struck by lightning” the moisture inside is flashed to steam, a wholly different process than combustion. And Poplars are considered hardwoods.
Considered hardwoods because they’re deciduous. The wood is softer than pine, though. Not even good firewood, it pops and spits, and is so lacking in density that it burns far too quickly.
Does not change the facts.
And what facts were those? That no trees in “eastern hardwood forests” explode during wildfires? You do realize those mountains have spruce and balsam in the higher elevations, I assume.
I don’t know what your point is here guy. I live in the mountains in eastern forests. You engaged in disinformation about trees “exploding” from combustibles due to lightning strikes and I debunked that. Now you’re simply badgering someone who makes their living in the forest. Yes trees exploding from wildfires is possible, but the difference in western wildfires and fires in eastern forests are stark. The only trees that come close to the pitch content of western hardwoods in the east are balsams. Now I’m done.
Boy, that 2nd picture looks like it’s straight out of the Civil War.
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