California wild fires

[Marchrider]

As my geography teacher would say: "There are no natural disasters: there are natural hazards and there are man-made disasters, caused by humans ignoring natural hazards."

these fires are a worry to me too - just over our garden fence (on the side of the prevailing winds) is a small woodland, I love having it there as it is full of wildlife, a joy to live next to, but with increasing amounts of these types of wild fires it does concern during long dry periods. The atmosphere is warmer than it used to be and holds more moisture, and this moisture has come from evaporation, hence the much greater likelihood of vegetation being drier and easier to burn, wildfires are becoming more prevalent

A couple of years ago during a very dry summer (it could have been the summer after the austrailian wildfires) I set up garden sprinklers so if there was a fire I could do my best to protect the house - not that my house would be as likely to burn as the homes we see in california, timber clad with ceder shingle roof - I would hope a block constructed house with a slate roof would fair better

 

[dicko]

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Jasper AB, Canada Summer '24

That’s where we are going in April 😧

 

[Milzy]

People keep saying wild fires but more often than not it’s careless humans or even Arson. LA fires = arson.

 

[PK99]

People keep saying wild fires but more often than not it’s careless humans or even Arson. LA fires = arson.

I don't know about the current California fires, but in Pacific North America wild fires often originate from random lightning strikes.

 

[AndyRM]

I've seen a few interviews with people who know what they're talking about and they have all dismissed arson as a possibility.

 

[Ajax Bay]

. . . more often than not it’s careless humans or even Arson. LA fires = arson.

Care to share your basis for those (more often than not; and = arson)? Or is this just you echoing the wild assertion randoms/conspiracy theorists? Without straying into NACA territory please.
Afiak only one of the five conflagrations is even suspected to have started by arson.

 

[Milzy]

Care to share your basis for those (more often than not; and = arson)? Or is this just you echoing the wild assertion randoms/conspiracy theorists? Without straying into NACA territory please.
Afiak only one of the five conflagrations is even suspected to have started by arson.

I thought I saw it on the legacy media a man had been arrested for arson. Maybe somebody had an innocent camp fire which got out of hand? No foul play. Tell Trump to stop posting conspiracies, you know he’s going to be president right?

 

[Sixmile]

Happens in UK as well eg (Environment Agency didn't even object)
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Ian

An obviously fake picture but point taken that our natural soaking areas to control flooding are being taken up. I know as I've had my house flooded and 6 or 7 miles up the river, they are building houses on low lying ground at an astonishing rate meaning that rainwater is filling the water all at once with no hold up - which means we're at an ever increasing risk of being flooded again.

 

[Psamathe]

An obviously fake picture but point taken that our natural soaking areas to control flooding are being taken up. I know as I've had my house flooded and 6 or 7 miles up the river, they are building houses on low lying ground at an astonishing rate meaning that rainwater is filling the water all at once with no hold up - which means we're at an ever increasing risk of being flooded again.

Reported in The Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ea...ains-as-UK-stores-up-problems-for-future.html) with the report "Senior EA officials have been among thousands of social media users to share a photograph in recent days showing flood waters lapping around a sign marking a development site with permission for 39 new homes, near Whalley in Lancashire ..."

Reported 2015 (before the days of AI creating these fake images).

Not suggesting everything reported in The Telegraph is 100% true but it does go on to discuss the site in more detail.

Ian

 

[Ajax Bay]

a development site with permission for 39 new homes, near Whalley in Lancashire ...

[Way off topic] Well here's the latest GSV: the 'waterfront development' is going to be called collectively 'Calder Grange'.

Very Low risk of flooding.

 

[Psamathe]

[Way off topic] Well here's the latest GSV: the 'waterfront development' is going to be called collectively 'Calder Grange'.
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Very Low risk of flooding.

Yet Government's own risk assessment for the land

(from https://check-long-term-flood-risk.service.gov.uk/map)

Ian

 

[Ajax Bay]

Government's own risk assessment

My clip is way more colourful

 

[Milzy]

The real looting will happen when the big private cooperations buy up all the neighbour hoods.

 

[Marchrider]

not made of wood and doesn't have a ceder shingle roof - quite the idea in a place where wild fires are likely

copried from X x.com/TheGoddessF/status/187935096635047937

 

[Beebo]

not made of wood and doesn't have a ceder shingle roof - quite the idea in a place where wild fires are likely

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copried from X x.com/TheGoddessF/status/187935096635047937

The religious nutters will claim that god saved it.