Off-Topic: Southern California Fires
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Here's another one.
In my SoCal days that place never failed to surprise me. In amazing ways. But not all of them good ways.
When I first got there we had a bad fire in the IE. The Santa Ana's blew the smoke right over HB. It looked a lot like this with falling ash everywhere.
In my SoCal days that place never failed to surprise me. In amazing ways. But not all of them good ways.
When I first got there we had a bad fire in the IE. The Santa Ana's blew the smoke right over HB. It looked a lot like this with falling ash everywhere.
Very cool how this has immediately been politicized with zero care of tens of thousands of homes, businesses, schools, historic buildings, and who knows how many casualties.
Ash falling down on my car as I got to the office today was jarring.
Ash falling down on my car as I got to the office today was jarring.
I'm asking because I have no legitimate idea but what more should be done? Are there firefighting resources left to deploy? I assume at this point it's all about the weather and it burning itself out?
Just need the wind to die down and contain. I think the worst is over but could change.
Hope you are well. Tragedies like these bring out the worst on both sides. Already seeing people questioning the efforts of utility folks (water & power) and even military for not having boots on the ground! The unfortunate part of any person with a voice having a megaphone.
The dog's like "Hey. you're cool and all, but I'm gonna go find a new best friend now."
When surrounded by fire, why would the first thought be to pull out your phone and start recording? I’d be leaving as quickly as I could. Grab the dog and keys and leave. Everything else can be replaced.
by the time things are like that leaving probably isnt an option either. might as well film it I guess.
When I was a kid, I remember Johnny Carson making a joke about LA having 4 seasons:
fire, flood, earthquake, and mudslide
fire, flood, earthquake, and mudslide
They very well may have been stuck by this point. There are a lot of canyons in this area that have one road in/out and if that gets cut off, you're stuck. I've heard they were telling people to get out of their cars and walk out in some places.
It's a good reminder that if they tell you to evacuate, that's the time to leave. Not time to start getting ready or give it another 30 minutes to see what happens.
We're firmly in the FO stage now
. Coworker lost power overnight and evacuated this morning, said they're safe from fire (for now) but smoke is too bad to stay. I can't remember exact town but I'm pretty sure it's north LA.I did read firefights got the two men and the dog out.
There is a book by John McPhee called "The Control of Nature". Three sections: trying to control the course of the Mississippi River near the Gulf, protecting cities at the base of volcanoes from lava flows, and mudslides in Southern California. Lots of interesting things are done to try and mitigate potential disasters, but there is only so much that can be done.
I think we get the impression it is a fire with a single face and it's spreading like some big forest fire but with that wind it's jumping all over the place. Sort of like comparing a reaction to a slow rising river flood to a flash flood. Not sure we appreciate the chaos of it all.
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