Posted on 09/08/2020 8:06:23 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Unfortunately this year has seen lots of weird dry lightning strikes which are ridiculously uncommon for this part of the world this time of year
if you’re in a place on the East Coast or almost anywhere in the Midwest thunderstorms and lightning happen on a daily basis but those woods aren’t going to burn
The somewhat fortunate thing here in the bay area at least is it happening in August and now September so we get those typical pretty strong Westerly breeze is every day they blow a lot of the smoke east
The main problem in October and November as you start getting to Santa Anna winds and hot weather and that’s a real deadly combo
MMMMMM, 2 million acres burned. How much Green House gas released? I think since this has been such a large environmental disaster that California should stop all activities until they make up for the large increase just released. May take a year or two but they need to save the planet!
I have no confidence that as much as half of the media could immediately tell you how many inches in a yard.
That drops to under 10% on how many acres in a square mile.
They just reformat press releases and go back to reading Politico or DNC talking points.
Nature fixes man’s mistakes (too much fire suppression for decades), but it isn’t pretty as it does the fixing.
It’s all climate changes fault. Those nasty hurricanes whupped up the atmosphere and then Mother Nature set off a sparkler show like few we have seen before.
Some say you can never be prepared for such a widespread set of weather disturbances to hit.
Some say, the fires were in inaccessible terrain. We have to let them burn themselves out.
Others said why don’t we have roads and fire breaks and such to make access possible and perhaps allow firefighters to slow and reduce the extent of damages?
Why? That would require a regearing, a rethinking of the California dream. A renewal of honest and reasoned approaches to not averting disasters but preparing known trouble areas to allow some level of prevention of fires spreading easily in dense underbrush and fuel.
And look how it moved the jet stream, a few cars on the road sure are powerful.
Blame Henry Ford. How many Model As and Ts are there on the roads these days ;-?
They can’t blame PG&E this time. They have been cutting power all fire country at the drop of a hat. Yet the burn this year exceeds the year they scapegoated PG&E.
Right, lets not clear out forests or any of that, and then when all that dead underbrush and dead trees cause massive fires, then find a new scapegoat to blame.
Thanks Commifornia.
Agenda 21 urbanization plan is coming along nicely.
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