Here in Massachusetts the rivers are all running very high. If we get a snowy winter then Spring is going to bring a lot of flooding. Not unusual but this amount of water late in the year is not normal.
One of my wifes aunts live in California, not in the current fire zones, but has the brush right up next to her home and when we asked her about clearing it away she said 'but it's so ugly when it's all bare, NO I'm not doing that!'. We just shook our heads and thought that when the fire comes her way she too will be a statistic. She is one of the stereotypical California thinkers with the laize fare(sp) attitude.
After the great Los Alamos fire a couple of decades ago there were intriguing overhead photography shots which showed streets on which some houses burned down to the chimney and others were intact, mostly because of differences in fuel density near the house (trees, shrubs, brush). It really does make a difference.
No one has posted here in
No one has posted here in over a day so I am.
Me
Me
Phil
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
Phil wrote:Me Hey me too!!
Hey me too!!
Nope, me
Nope, me
Wow Christmas is closing in
Wow Christmas is closing in fast. I wonder if I've been naughty or nice this year?
Paul
Here in Massachusetts the
Here in Massachusetts the rivers are all running very high. If we get a snowy winter then Spring is going to bring a lot of flooding. Not unusual but this amount of water late in the year is not normal.
It's 38 degrees Celsius &
It's 38 degrees Celsius & there's a hot northerly blowing briskly. So it is bushfire time. Sigh.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:It's 38
Is there time to follow the actions of How they survived: Owners of the few homes left standing around Paradise, Calif., took critical steps to ward off wildfires
Winterknight wrote:Mike
One of my wifes aunts live in California, not in the current fire zones, but has the brush right up next to her home and when we asked her about clearing it away she said 'but it's so ugly when it's all bare, NO I'm not doing that!'. We just shook our heads and thought that when the fire comes her way she too will be a statistic. She is one of the stereotypical California thinkers with the laize fare(sp) attitude.
Oh did you know that I am now winning!!
After the great Los Alamos
After the great Los Alamos fire a couple of decades ago there were intriguing overhead photography shots which showed streets on which some houses burned down to the chimney and others were intact, mostly because of differences in fuel density near the house (trees, shrubs, brush). It really does make a difference.