[Joe Hadenuf]

Yes, they can start forest fires. Those fires are unlikely to kill many Americans, however, and they won't be as large as last year's fires simply because we've built new logging roads as firebreaks over the last 12 months.

Logging roads? LOL. You obviously have never been in So. Cal during devil wind season. They eat fire breaks and can jump them like they didn't exist.

[Southack]

"Logging roads? LOL. You obviously have never been in So. Cal during devil wind season. They eat fire breaks and can jump them like they didn't exist."

Been there, done that.

Here's a black and white test to see if I'm right or wrong:

I say that due to the new logging roads serving as default firebreaks, that this year's forest fires will be *smaller* than last year's fires.

Simply bookmark this post and revisit in September.

[Travis McGee]

Good point. And the bigger the fire, the more powerful the updrafts, which as we know from last year can carry burning branches for hundreds of yards, to start new fires across interstate highways and so on.