California fires
-
The Palisades Fire has turned toward Brentwood and Encino. If the wind kicks up again, and that’s the forecast, a whole lot more very expensive real estate is about to disappear. The best anyone can hope for is that they can get the people and the animals out. They’ve been doing an excellent job of this so far - the death toll has been remarkably low for an event of this magnitude.
Pique wrote an excellent article outlining this fact. I remember reading it on the old Piano Board. No matter what anyone does, one small fire when winds are hitting 80-100 MPH is going to spread too quickly for much of anything to be done about it. The fires will slow down when the wind stops, and not go out completely until it rains.
Good people of Brentwood and Encino, pack up now. Get your animals out; get out of your houses now so you don’t clog up the roads.
There will be time enough to cast blame later.
-
Wow. This is so scary. I feel awful for everyone in its path!
Is the scope of this fire bigger than previous fires? Or is it hitting more populated areas than past fires?
As fires go, these aren’t particularly large - yet. In 2008 the Freeway Complex fire took out a much larger area. My town lost 100 houses in that one.
What makes these stand out, the Pallisades fire in particular, is that they’re burning in areas with a lot of expensive houses and famous people living in them. The winds are also particularly fierce - a Santa Ana wind of 60 MPH is fairly routine but I’ve never heard of them hitting 100 MPH as they are now.
-
@Steve-Miller thanks for that explanation!
So the winds are particularly scary then! Truly awful.
-
Sickening. DEI is just another tool the right uses to mask their hate.
But the article states, "... Elon Musk, one of the brightest minds of his generation..."
What? Says who?
Here is a great response from a vlogger, Naughty Nana DUZ, in Canada...
Link to video -
View from news helicopter after smoke cleared--
Link to video -
I've been a fan of Jesús Enrique Rosas for a long time. He has a single 'brand" now but his videos about the British royal family used to be a separate YouTube channel.
Link to videoI'm not invested in the concept of "DEI" and, in fact, "DEI" came into place at a time when I was paying no attention whatsoever. I didn't learn about it until well after it was established as, "something."
So, I'm not saying anything about it.
I'm only saying as a discrete observation I agree this lady is a sociopath.
She's talking about almost unimaginable tragedy and she's grinning without stop.
Yikes.
-
She hasn’t been a great mayor but she had nothing to do with the intensity of the fires.
