| California Wildfires
Posted: 12/4/2006 7:17:23 AM | I've never lived in an area that is frequently struck by wildfires. Nor have I lived close enough to the ocean to be affected by hurricanes. I put these 2 disasters in the same category. They happen every year and each time they do, no one seems to be prepared.
WTF California?
Every year more of your forests burn to the ground and along with them goes the houses built in them.
Everytime I hear the same thing about why they are burning wild...the underbrush.
Apparently the treehuggers out on the west coast don't believe in doing any preventative maintenance. You can't leave a tinderbox of kindling just laying all over the ground. You'd think people would have learned this decades ago. At least carve out some firelines.
If you're not going to take measures to stop the fires from burning wild quit whining when they do. | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 12/4/2006 7:41:54 AM | the southern california wildfires are due to to primary contributing factors:
1) the area used to be desert. It's naturally hot and but for all the irrigation from the California Acquaduct bringing water from the northern regions of the state and the Hoover dam in the east; the incredible amounts of vegitation in the communities of that area would not be growing there. It's fuel for fires and these fires would happen in an area like that no matter what, simply because of the heat and dried fuel.
2) In California, we have a wind current from the coast into the central valley, caused by the air in the central getting hot and rising, causing a vacuum, which pulls air from the coast underneath of it. This is the reason for the high winds that used to be at Candlestick Park, for instance. It's rarely there at game time, but by 3pm, any ball hit to left field was a wounded duck and any high fly hit to right or right center was an outtie. Hot dog wrappers would blow onto the fence and into the faces of fans sitting out that way.
In rare instances also, fires have been purposely started by layed off firefighters who needed to get back to work. Good thing it's not privatized as in "Gangs of New York". Who knows how many wildfires we'd have THEN???? | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 12/4/2006 9:35:33 AM | The California Department of Forestry and U.S Forest Service has guidlines and information on how to best protect your property for those who live in areas prone to wildfires. It's like anything else though, people don't want to listen or take action before its too late.
Then it's....would of....could of....should of | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 12/5/2006 9:53:18 AM | OP.......
I remember watching letterman and one actor ( I forget who) said his uncle was one of the top guy's in the u.s. forestry service . His uncle had told him after retiring that most often man could not do much once a large forest fire started and all the millions of man years of labour trying to contain big forest fires over the years was really a futile waste of time and money, human injury and even loss of life....It all came down to nature ...if it rained and the wind stop blowing , if it got damp and cool, ran out of fuel etc... the fire went out ..if not there was no stopping it ....
I believe this .
But in terms of this post which is a different case.....why is it that the radical environmental agenda seems to be tolerated and even promoted by the establishment? | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 12/11/2006 2:17:29 PM | | another big contributary reason for these out of control fires, is that the under growth hasn't been thinned out in years thanks to tree hugging idiots, who don't think man should mess with nature in anyway like having controled burns. remember those massive forrest fires in colorado a few years back, they got outt of control and burned extremely hot due to the very thick (and dry) under growth. | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 12/11/2006 6:07:52 PM | | And arsonists nor people that don't put out campfires help.. | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 8/29/2007 7:51:42 PM | | I think all the fires are terrorists activities. It just seems like something cowardly that they would do.. | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 8/30/2007 5:31:21 AM | As the second poster pointed out, if you live in a friggin' desert and grow trees with water, you get fires :)
As for lack of foresting due to tree huggers, that's not correct. The fires are fueled by the scrub on the forest floor before the tall trees, and no logging company is gonna pick that up unless they are forced to--there's no money in that. They will instead pick the tallest trees, so the shade disappears, smaller trees get to grow, and even if they don't leave the debris behind (which they do), you still have floor-level fuel for any fire that comes in. | |
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| California Wildfires
Posted: 11/28/2007 9:09:26 AM | I find it comical that a fellow Texan (the OP) would write the following in 2006:
Apparently the treehuggers out on the west coast don't believe in doing any preventative maintenance. You can't leave a tinderbox of kindling just laying all over the ground. You'd think people would have learned this decades ago. At least carve out some firelines.
From Jan. 1, 2005 to June 14, 2006, Texas experienced 21,007 wildfires, 85% of which occurred less than 2 miles from a community.
Almost 2 million acres burned, 639 homes were destroyed, and there was over $500 million of property damage.
Fire prevention starts at home, dude. | |
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