Near Big Bear. Can see the smoke cloud from very far away. It's almost 110 degrees up in that area today. Say a prayer for those people.
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Drive around the countryside around Napa and all of the "nature preserve" areas and you'll understand why they have such horrible wild fires. Who would want a nice vineyard or grazing land when you can have thousands of acres of brush growing uncontrolled on rough hillsides....... My bother-in-law lives near LA and he says whenever the NFS wants to do brush control the "environmentalists" step in and get court injunctions to stop them.Near Big Bear. Can see the smoke cloud from very far away. It's almost 110 degrees up in that area today. Say a prayer for those people.
Drive around the countryside around Napa and all of the "nature preserve" areas and you'll understand why they have such horrible wild fires. Who would want a nice vineyard or grazing land when you can have thousands of acres of brush growing uncontrolled on rough hillsides....... My bother-in-law lives near LA and he says whenever the NFS wants to do brush control the "environmentalists" step in and get court injunctions to stop them.
I feel for people in it's path. Stay safe.
May I politely ask how it can be labeled a "Monster Wildfire" if it's just developing?
Hmmmm, sounds like it has the potential to be devastating. Best wishes to the Americans in its way.I did not notice the smoke cloud this morning watering the yard. I stepped outside to get lunch and saw a cumulonimbus smoke cloud straight out of a Nebraska thunderstorm. This thing is visible from a couple hundred miles away and read post above.
Hmmmm, sounds like it has the potential to be devastating. Best wishes to the Americans in its way.
Near Big Bear. Can see the smoke cloud from very far away. It's almost 110 degrees up in that area today. Say a prayer for those people.
Sad, seems to be an annual occurrence
It is now 12% contained with 8,000 evacuated from their homes.
Nature is running its course.Can someone name a year without a fire there?
Can someone name a year without a fire there?
I realize that. It was just an illustration of what goes on in California. I've driven around the countryside around L.A. as well. It's just a glorified desert with wild uncontrolled brush. I'm not sure what people expect to happen out there.That's up north. This is in a horrible spot for a fire. One of the windiest, driest places at the base of the mountain. Plenty of dry vegetation to fuel it after an abnormal spring where it rained a lot.
Drive around the countryside around Napa and all of the "nature preserve" areas and you'll understand why they have such horrible wild fires. Who would want a nice vineyard or grazing land when you can have thousands of acres of brush growing uncontrolled on rough hillsides....... My bother-in-law lives near LA and he says whenever the NFS wants to do brush control the "environmentalists" step in and get court injunctions to stop them.
2020 sucks. Bring on 2021
Bad people have started fires for various reasons certainly. But places like SoCal who build homes in the middle of a Tinderbox perplex me. They are completely unwilling to address the actual needs within nature of letting that buildup to burn off. There's an amazing documentary about Big Sur on Netflix I watched a couple years ago. Fire is necessary for regeneration in future growth. There are pine trees that will not release their seeds outside of fire.Several years ago when there fires all over the U.S., can't remember the year I was watching a government official talk about them and he made a comment about terrorists starting.many of them. That was the first and only time I ever heard that and it stuck in my head because it made very good sense. True or not, then or now I have no clue. Nothing could be much easier for those bent in that direction
Bad people have started fires for various reasons certainly. But places like SoCal who build homes in the middle of a Tinderbox perplex me. They are completely unwilling to address the actual needs within nature of letting that buildup to burn off. There's an amazing documentary about Big Sur on Netflix I watched a couple years ago. Fire is necessary for regeneration in future growth. There are pine trees that will not release their seeds outside of fire.
Wasn’t it in the 1950’s or 60’s California actually had a law that you had to clear brush and tall grass and weeds so many feet away from your property to help control wildlife?Early word is it maybe arson. Smh
Bad people have started fires for various reasons certainly. But places like SoCal who build homes in the middle of a Tinderbox perplex me. They are completely unwilling to address the actual needs within nature of letting that buildup to burn off. There's an amazing documentary about Big Sur on Netflix I watched a couple years ago. Fire is necessary for regeneration in future growth. There are pine trees that will not release their seeds outside of fire.
Here we go again. Sad. I really love some of the California scenery but you couldn't pay me enough to live in that state on a permanent basis for a myriad of reasons.
Wasn’t it in the 1950’s or 60’s California actually had a law that you had to clear brush and tall grass and weeds so many feet away from your property to help control wildlife?
Might be time to relocate to Nebraska. Right now the migration rate for Seattle is 10:1 outward. My brother-in-law is kind of stuck out there right now due to some family circumstances. He's been saying for 20 years he can't wait to get out and yet he's still there.About an hour and a half.