[Travis McGee]

I think last year's SoCal fires were only 5-10 percent of the potential of a mass forest arson attack. Such mega fires would totally overwhelm our ability to fight them, and they would rage unchecked for weeks, wiping out entire towns, and hte entire Western electrical grid.

[Southack]

One of the many good things that President Bush has done has been to use XO's to kill environmental rules that required lots of paperwork (e.g. environmental impact statements) before building new logging roads as firebreaks.

Lots of new logging roads have since been built in the last 12 months because of the easing of those rules...and they will reduce the scope of forest fires into much smaller areas/ranges.

[stlnative]

yes I believe this is where the black wind of death will come from.

'Black wind of death' will hit the US

[_Jim]

     and hte [sic] entire Western electrical grid.

Overblown ...