Heavy rains in that area last year led to a lot of new growth. It becomes quite flammable after winter kills it all. Have someone throw out a cigarette butt on the highway when there are 50 mph wind gusts and viola.
***Named the Smokehouse Creek Fire, it has burned more than 1.1 million acres and is now the largest wildfire in Texas history.***
Back in 1957, there were public service announcements (Smokey the Bear) on TV warning that every year the then 48 states had so many wildfires that if put together they would cover the entire state of Louisiana. That is 33.52 million acres.
Has the burns equaled that yet? My kin in Pampa TX had to evacuate for a few hours.
The only thing wrong with climate are these fake climate scientists
The NEWS outlets are committing FRAUD that is causing Real Injuries to American Citizens in quality of life and financial costs. They should all be Charged under RICO and prosecuted and imprisoned for life, all assets should be seized under RICO also to help mitigate the damage they caused.
“ Study reconstructs 232-year history of prairie fire in Midwestern US”
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-reconstructs-year-history-prairie-midwestern.html
“ There were a lot of reasons why Native Americans used fire, and one of them was hunting for bison and deer,” McClain said. “They also used it for warfare and harassment, to clear woodlands and perhaps to kill certain insects or even animals like snakes that they didn’t want near their habitations.”
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“ I don’t think people today realize what those prairie fires were like,” said study co-author John Ebinger, a professor emeritus of biological sciences at Eastern Illinois University and an INHS affiliate. “These were not little grass fires; they were conflagrations that could quickly destroy thousands of acres.”
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“One observer in Minnesota in 1857 described prairie fires “that licked the country clean” for hundreds of miles.”
I notice they are unable to predict a specific “climate disaster” in advance, but always claim cause (with no supporting facts) for a weather event that has already happened.
The major events that they have predicted have not occurred: e.g., all snow gone, all polar ice melted, prediction of the actual global temperature trend....
Meanwhile, the average temperature anomaly for 114 surface climate stations across the US is -0.14F cooler than normal for January: https://wattsupwiththat.com/u-s-surface-temperature/
We hear this about Every. Single. Wildfire. in California.
Trump was not wrong when he said the destructive wildfires in the West are partly caused by mismanagement of the eco system which creates prime conditions for these fire storms.
That and illegals setting fires all over to cook/keep warm/signal where they are when lost.
Plentiful rain over the past 20 years has allowed brush to grow unaffected with nothing to stop it but fire. This is Mother Nature’s way of letting the grass recover. The fire provides many fertilizer nutrients to be released back into the soil for the grass to recover rapidly. In few months the burned area will be all green with lush green growth. Mother Nature will have done her job to be back in balance.