Posted on 01/18/2025 2:38:52 PM PST by vespa300
Experts have identified the brand-new threat that may further destroy the Golden State as Californians continue to lose their homes to hellish wildfires.
At least 25 people have lost their lives and over 12,000 buildings have burned to the ground in the Palisades Fire - which has razed much of the Pacific Palisades, once a stunning coastal enclave home to the rich and famous.
However, according to the US Geological Survey the worst is yet to come.
As firefighters battle the flames and continue to diffuse them out, the federal agency claims landslides caused from burn scars left after the fires are out and rainfall returns will become a bigger issue in the future.
'After compiling one year's worth of soil and sediment erosion quantities occurring after large California wildfires between 1984 and 2021, scientists found that postfire erosion has accelerated over time, particularly in northern California, likely reflecting both the increase in wildfire in the state and the frequency of wet water years,' the study read.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Increase of the frequency of wet water years?
I thought it was drying out because of “climate change”.
this is a reset for the hypocrites...
california has been dictating air quality standards for years...
And stand six feet apart.
Perhaps trenches could be cut into the hills to form water retaining terraces.
“Wonder what it looked like before population.”
California was a paradise till it became a
one party Democrat state.
Born and raised there, so I watched it get destroyed by Democrats, so I left in 1979.
That reminds me of Arizona crop rotation: cotton, corn, sorghum, subdivision.
Most times it is just new to new people. New ones are hatched every day and old ones are planted just the same. Memories are absent at the beginnings and lost at death. Even when they are left behind in writings, it takes time to font them, read them, learn them and understand them. Only people have memories. Society, organizations and groups only have memory by focused, intentional great effort maintained by champions. Champions get tired and fail.
Not really. There were very, very few natives living in the stark dry deserts of southern California in that area. When fires hit - and they did regularly occur naturally in the dry grass and sparse shrubs! - the native Indians could only flee away sideways across and downwind from the wind. Or die.
They lived a harsh, scrapedirt life of stone age poverty and misery
This is new? In the 1960s after such a fire the state would use helicopters to spread seeds of various plants to try and stabilize the soil before mud slides began.
I am reminded of the old movie “How to Commit Marriage”(1969) with Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in which mud slides after fires are in the scenes. “Please! Don’t make waves!”
My understanding is that the early inhabitants did controlled burning, just like they did here in the Northwest.
I first moved to So Cal following the â93 Malibu fires, which turned into the 94-95 mud slides that completely wiped out the hillsides on both sides of Malibu Creek. That bridge and shopping center next to Malibu Creek were all new after 95. I canât remember if it was the same El Niño storms that washed the 101 into the ocean between Ventura and Santa Barbara, but two police officers drove into what they thought was flooded roadway and they sank to the bottom of the ocean. If you look at Google maps satellite and find Surferâs Point and the Ventura County Fairgrounds, youâll see the wreckage of beautiful bike path that used to be there and they never repaired it.
“Relatively populated”? How many people lived within the current state boundaries in 1 A.D.? give or take 100,000
Not news. In 1989 John McPhee wrote about the LA cycle of hillside fires, heavy rains, followed by landslides in “Control of Nature.”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77.The_Control_of_Nature
Anyone who thinks this is news that actually requires a warning is not well-informed.
Thanks bro. I looked up the movie on youtube and it’s there free. Looks good. I had never heard of it. I love those 60s movies . I think Divorce American Style is one of the funniest movies ever made.
I’m stealing that.
Thanks for mentioning John McPhee. Good book.
Actual weather service records show no trend either way in precipitation for the last century or so. Most statements made through the media about climate change are fabrications invented to order.
I enjoyed McPhee's "In Suspect Terrain" and "Basin and Range" too. Both very good reads.
Despite all the bad news, fruits, and nuts out there, CA is a crown jewel of natural beauty. Most every kind of geological feature can be explored from north to south. No wonder so many people gravitate there. The lefty zealots won’t have the final say.
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