Wild Fires In LA

[TerryRohrer]

You have an advantage in the panhandle, firefighters don’t have to produce lGBGQ documents every time they enter a new neighborhood like they’re required to in lala land.

Probably don't avoid MAGA signs in the yard like they do on the other coast, either.

 

[Mike Ault]

You have an advantage in the panhandle, firefighters don’t have to produce lGBGQ documents every time they enter a new neighborhood like they’re required to in lala land.

You seem quite "emotionally invested" in this issue. Why aren't you out there volunteering to fight the fires?

 

[Charles West]

70 mph winds predicted for Thousand Oaks region beginning Wednesday.

 

[Bobby Bucks]

You seem quite "emotionally invested" in this issue. Why aren't you out there volunteering to fight the fires?

Hardly emotionally invested, just amazed that the process of fighting fires, or technically, impeding the speed of the fires by removing or weakening its fuel source has become a political matter. It's incredible what a clusterfukk it has become.

 

[Mike Ault]

Hardly emotionally invested, just amazed that the process of fighting fires, or technically, impeding the speed of the fires by removing or weakening its fuel source has become a political matter. It's incredible what a clusterfukk it has become.

"Cutting down trees" seems to be the only way to slow down fires like that. As you are well aware, that's against the 11th commandment in Texas. "Thou shalt not cut down a tree". Regardless, in 70 mile an hour winds, fire spreads at 70 mph. Even in short prairie scrub grass.

 

[TerryRohrer]

The reason fires in wildlands are so volatile is because they effectively have their own life. On the plains, with one structure and one person every few dozen miles, the cost effective solution is often to let it burn because chasing it becomes a fool's errand. In the big prairie and forest fires around here, they usually get contained with the first snowfall, or significant rain, no matter how many manmade resources are sent to attempt to influence the outcome. That has not changed over the past few centuries. Typically, protection of structures and lives becomes the priority (with the costs of other damage every bit as devastating to someone as losing a home is to someone else). But as the density of people and structures increases, it seems prudent to preclude conditions that can lead to such outbreaks, which cannot be deemed "surprises" by thinking people. It becomes a matter of priorities and where those in charge choose to expend resources. It seems those in CA in positions to make such decisions are compensated will enough to be held accountable for the decisions they make.

"According to the County Department of Parks and Recreation, Los Angeles has a median of 3.3 acres of park space per 1,000 people, well below the median of 6.8 acres per 1,000 people in other high-density U.S. cities. Across the county, 41 of the 262 neighborhoods have less than 1 acre of park space per 1,000 people. "

Access to Parks and Green Space – Neighborhood Data for Social Change

la.myneighborhooddata.org

"When vegetation burns, large amounts of heat are released. This heats the air near the ground, and that air rises like a hot air balloon because hot air is less dense than cool air. Cooler air then rushes in to fill the void left by rising air.

This is how wildfires create their own wind patterns."

How Wildfires Create Rain and Change the Weather

Because wildfires create their own wind patterns, they can also spawn their own weather. Here’s how it works

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Mike Ault]

The way to prevent fires in high winds, is to bury all the overhead electrical lines that whip together, generating sparks which cause the fires. Which would be cost prohibitive. Maybe we should rescend the rural electrification program.

 

[TerryRohrer]

Stopping lightening from striking would help, too.

 

[Mike Ault]

Stopping lightening from striking would help, too.

That reminds me. Where is UC?

 

[Bobby Bucks]

"Cutting down trees" seems to be the only way to slow down fires like that. As you are well aware, that's against the 11th commandment in Texas. "Thou shalt not cut down a tree". Regardless, in 70 mile an hour winds, fire spreads at 70 mph. Even in short prairie scrub grass.

My knowledge of the subject is to super saturate specific areas, choke points if you will and combine this with strategically placed backfires. It won't stop them, but will weaken and slow them. The problem is the water shortage which brings to mind all those Hollywood celebrities who for years who have flaunted the water conservation regulations because those laws are for the little people in their minds.

That reminds me. Where is UC?

I'm fairly sure UC Bruin is in Massachusetts based on the last time I remember him posting about it.