Current Events > California has a damn inferno. My state is getting snow for the next week.

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What a world.

California always has huge fires in the fall. Its that dry wind
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Makes sense. Is it windy every where? We always get major winds this time of year.

California gets huge fires especially in SoCal because they're living in a desert and the rich there don't want to do controlled burns so we get wildfires.

I guess California should have thought about that
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ChouBF posted...

Makes sense. Is it windy every where? We always get major winds this time of year.

We only get them occasionally. It's an odd weather pattern we call "Santa Ana Winds". The humidity drops to like, nothing and it gets super windy. Perfect recipe for fires with all the dry brush since we get no fuckin' rain.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

ChouBF posted...

Makes sense. Is it windy every where? We always get major winds this time of year.

We only get them occasionally. It's an odd weather pattern we call "Santa Ana Winds". The humidity drops to like, nothing and it gets super windy. Perfect recipe for fires with all the dry brush since we get no fuckin' rain.

That sucks man. :/ I'll take the snow any day over that crap.

Snow is awesome. The skiing season is getting smaller and smaller each year.
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East coast bay bay

Just a few weeks ago there was a fire in Wildomar that I could see from the freeway. Thankfully, it never got close to where I live (Murrieta).
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ChouBF posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

ChouBF posted...

Makes sense. Is it windy every where? We always get major winds this time of year.

We only get them occasionally. It's an odd weather pattern we call "Santa Ana Winds". The humidity drops to like, nothing and it gets super windy. Perfect recipe for fires with all the dry brush since we get no fuckin' rain.

That sucks man. :/ I'll take the snow any day over that crap.

we have snow too, it just depends on where you live.
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Does have any broken bottles glass causing fire in the California? i'm curious
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CommonStar posted...

California gets huge fires especially in SoCal because they're living in a desert and the rich there don't want to do controlled burns so we get wildfires.

Hey hey, those people have to water their lawns and make those almonds.
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Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on the ashes of my home in Bel Air!

Seriously though, this is pretty horrible. I just love making Fresh Prince references.
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We always have huge fires out here in the fall. These ones aren't even that bad. The winds are hitting my bedroom wall right now. I'm in a pass and the gusts are 70+ right now. It howls around the corner and sounds like a wave crashing.
But leave it to the news to over blow everything. Because people not from around here probably see it on tv and think "Omg how horrible." But no. This isn't anything new or unique. It's like this every year. And again. This isn't even that bad.

And bar for a few exceptions in all these fires and mudslides in the winter. These homes are these multi million dollar palaces of excess (mansion or track home) that are all built in areas where no homes should be. For exactly this reason. But oh nos. God forbid the natural terrain and surrounding hillsides with zero fire access stand in the way of these billionaire home developers building their next monstrosity of a plan.
And all these people say the same damn thing when being interviewed as they look at the ash pile that was their home. "We know the risks but it's just so beautiful we're going to rebuild." Every single time. You know. I have no sympathy then.
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so the fires today actually did affect my day. my college closed early and there's no classes tomorrow (doesn't matter to me as much since I don't have Friday classes anyway), and traffic getting home was so bad.
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EternalDivide posted...

We always have huge fires out here in the fall. These ones aren't even that bad. The winds are hitting my bedroom wall right now. I'm in a pass and the gusts are 70+ right now. It howls around the corner and sounds like a wave crashing.
But leave it to the news to over blow everything. Because people not from around here probably see it on tv and think "Omg how horrible." But no. This isn't anything new or unique. It's like this every year. And again. This isn't even that bad.

And bar for a few exceptions in all these fires and mudslides in the winter. These homes are these multi million dollar palaces of excess (mansion or track home) that are all built in areas where no homes should be. For exactly this reason. But oh nos. God forbid the natural terrain and surrounding hillsides with zero fire access stand in the way of these billionaire home developers building their next monstrosity of a plan.
And all these people say the same damn thing when being interviewed as they look at the ash pile that was their home. "We know the risks but it's just so beautiful we're going to rebuild." Every single time. You know. I have no sympathy then.

Thank you, just thank you for this post.
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Phantom_Nook posted...

Just a few weeks ago there was a fire in Wildomar that I could see from the freeway. Thankfully, it never got close to where I live (Murrieta).

You're not too far from me. Only like an hour plus north.
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EternalDivide posted...

These ones aren't even that bad.

Are you insane? This is the first time my asthma was triggered due to how fucking awful the air quality is. On the way to a job site two days ago, we drove through where the smoke was thickest at the time and it looked like a war zone. LA may not be on fire but it's damn near surrounded by four ongoing fires. Get the fuck out of here with that "not that bad" bullshit.
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dave_is_slick posted...

EternalDivide posted...

These ones aren't even that bad.

Are you insane? This is the first time my asthma was triggered due to how fucking awful the air quality is. On the way to a job site two days ago, we drove through where the smoke was thickest at the time and it looked like a war zone. LA may not be on fire but it's damn near surrounded by four ongoing fires. Get the fuck out of here with that "not that bad" bullshit.

I live between two mountains. This isn't that bad. Heavens! You're breathing in and seeing smoke? Oh yes it must be the apocalypse to you. It's called a fire and they happen here all the time. So either you're new to the area or just some alarmist who's simply lying. Either way you're just posting bs.
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ChouBF posted...

Makes sense. Is it windy every where? We always get major winds this time of year.

i heavily dislike wind and rain. i get bored on power outages.
doesn't come close to what others are suffering through the fires losing everything ><.
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EternalDivide posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

EternalDivide posted...

These ones aren't even that bad.

Are you insane? This is the first time my asthma was triggered due to how fucking awful the air quality is. On the way to a job site two days ago, we drove through where the smoke was thickest at the time and it looked like a war zone. LA may not be on fire but it's damn near surrounded by four ongoing fires. Get the fuck out of here with that "not that bad" bullshit.

I live between two mountains. This isn't that bad. Heavens! You're breathing in and seeing smoke? Oh yes it must be the apocalypse to you. It's called a fire and they happen here all the time. So either you're new to the area or just some alarmist who's simply lying. Either way you're just posting bs.

Dude you realize the fires are occuring in Santa Clarita, Sylmar, Ventura, Sherman Oaks and Bel Air? Who are you to say the air isn't bad because you're not personally experiencing it?

I live in Van Nuys and even then I was coughing quite a bit and getting ash in my eye. I imagine it's so much fucking worse for those right in the center of it all.
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And we've gotten rain here daily for over 2 months. I'd be more than happy to lend our rain to California.
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I'm in the San Gorgoino Pass. You want smoke? Multiple times we've had the mountain just 4 blocks from me go up in flames. The Esperanza Fire where those 5 firefighters died was one. I can see the area they died in from my front yard. Then there's all the hills going up to Big Bear on the other side of me and the indian reservation hillsides that go up all the time. Yeah it's smokey, you cough, you can't see the sky through the smoke as the wind keeps the smoke near ground level here. It's a damn sight to behold when it's that close. But in all honesty I have bigger issues with the wind and dirt. It's like a fog outside right now there's so much dirt in the air. You can see the headlight beams of cars on the road.

It's a cycle. It only takes a few years for all the vegetation to grow back and dry up. Then another fire. These aren't trees we're talking about out here. This is dense brush (of the tumbleweed type) and manzanita. The former grow as large as a car in one year and the later grow back to 12-15 feet in a few years.
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