Wisconsin's 'claim to fame' as it happened at the same time as The Great Chicago Fire, which gets all the credit. ;)
Posted on 08/13/2023 6:28:52 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
The fire in Lahaina is now the deadliest American wildfire in more than 100 years, with more than 5,000 struck turned being damaged or destroyed. Of the affected buildings, nearly 90% have been reported as being residential structures.
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Seems to me different siren sequences could be used for different threats. Granted that’s a bit more expensive control module than a simple off-or-on.
Maui wildfires that have killed at least 93 caused by damaged Hawaiian Electric power lines, lawyers claim
By Ronny Reyes
August 13, 2023
That’s a nugget the writer neglected to research. Thanks for that!
Ambulance-chaser lawyers are going to have a field day, and get rich(er).
Might not different varieties coming in provide MORE fuel? Case in point: On one part of our property that I normally mow only every month or so (its not the lawn immediately adjacent to the house!) some sort of new grass has “invaded”. (I’ve not yet researched what it is.)
So, there’s this one several square foot patch of grass that literally grows 2-3 ft. tall, fairly densely, with blades ~ 3/8” wide and with a fairly heavy center “keel” (prolly the wrong terminology?) to each blade, in the time it takes the rest of the grass in our yard to grow maybe 6”. (I’m not considering the seed head heights.) I don’t know what the final fuel per square foot (acre, hectare, etc.) ratio of this stuff over the grasses we’ve had here for ~35 years prior might be, IF I let both grow until fall and then dry out, but it has to be substantial.
Even taller new plants coming in also seem like a possibility. Heck, here in the lowly mid-south USA we have weeds that grow over 10 ft. tall. Esp. if we get a wet July (like this year).
Height of the “fuel” can matter too, in and of itself. (Vertical dynamics of the flames.)
Some years back, I saw a small cornfield that didn’t get harvested for some reason, go up in flames. THAT was rather impressive, too. :-(
Granted I’m just speculating. Do you have Horticulturist friends in Hawaii who could weigh in?
What I can tell you is, without seeing what was there — impossible now — is that with 70-80 MPH winds from Hurricane Dora, it’;s only a matter of seconds for such a raging fire to burn thru anything.
The locals blame it on “alien plants from the Mainland ‘, which is total BS. More likely it’s uncleared underbrush/debris that fed the initial fires which merged into an inferno, and burned thru everything. Housing/building density is 80% of it, judging from the pics.
Hawaiian locals hate Americans form the Mainland. I can attest to that from personal experience. Many are just hate-filled assholes.
I haven’t seen but a few pics of “before” vs “after”, to be able to make a fair judgement, so I’ll reserve final comment, for now.
Hawaiian Electric is now being blamed, so the ambulance-chasing lawyers can get their money from insurance companies. Surprise!
Don’r discount local arson...
“That’s the signal for every one to grab a beer and go out on the porch and look at the clouds.”
LOL! You guys, too?
Wisconsin's 'claim to fame' as it happened at the same time as The Great Chicago Fire, which gets all the credit. ;)
This morning I heard it could be Hawaii Electric equipment. My question, is given Hawaii is basically all Dem elected officials, will anyone be held accountable for not issuing a warning? Were they all on vacation?
Is it true that all emergency leaders were away?
Non of the elected Democrat officials did anything to order a warning, there was no warning.
I heard it last evening, but now read that there are 3 electric companies on that small island. Who knew? I’m thinking the companies/gov’t are so intertwined that they’ll put on a public show, but no one gets held responsible. I also read yesterday, that all emergency officials were off the island; how could that be? The more I read, the more questions arise.
NJ Parkway planted Russian Olive as a shrubbery for the divide. Damn stuff is so invasive it grows just about everywhere in South Jersey.
That raging inferno cremated everything in its path. The structures, dry foliage etc were just accelerants to the fire.
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