https://buttecountyrecovers.org/360-images/
California fires.
Click the link. Then click on any of the red dots. (Zoom in if you want to choose a particular area.) Then scroll around.
What do you notice???????? Anything seem peculiar?
Re red dots/ CA fires:
All the red dots seem to follow roads?
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https://buttecountyrecovers.org/360-images/
California fires.
Click the link. Then click on any of the red dots. (Zoom in if you want to choose a particular area.) Then scroll around.
What do you notice???????? Anything seem peculiar?”
Houses are gone, but the big trees aren’t burned.
No trees burned.
Shades of Epstein Temple at the Superb Owl?
https://twitter.com/randybieberpr/status/1224196450353139712/photo/1
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Obviously, only the lower trunks and branches of the big trees were burned.
Those were "UNDERSTORY fires
Proper maintenance of the woodlands (removing deadfall fuel & dense understory brush) would have saved the vast majority of those structures.
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We lived thru the family trauma of a house fire, and my heart really goes out those folks! Pray for them -- even now...
And there were many heroic battles fought: homes still intact, with burn right "up to the doors" -- but, outbuildings burned... Those were some courageous (and desperate) folks!!
Roads not only served as firebreaks, but where deliberate firebreaks were cleared, they were mostly effective.
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I live on a large timberland tract -- and I may wear my tractor "plumb out" -- but, I'm on an "Understory Clearance" program -- in expanding circles centered on my homestead! The "Bush Hog" and timber chain are getting a workout -- and the "Box Scraper" will be mounted soon (replacing the Bush Hog) to clear fire breaks...
(FWIW, anyone who sees (and understands) those photos won't give me a hard time about the fact that I maintain a 3-acre "lawn" surrounding our home...)
BTW, those drones & ArcGIS are great tools; I may have to get me a drone to scope out "danger paths" where trees need to be removed/thinned...
ThanQ for posting that resource!
TXnMA
To gain a real sense of the meaning of the term. "disaster" (and be inspired to count your own blessings) try this exercise: