Fire (moved)
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I can offer words and prayers.
Just ask and you shall receive.
I can also walk and chew bubble gum (just barely, though).
Just ask and you shall receive.
I can also walk and chew bubble gum (just barely, though).
FWIW, the "forests" that are burning in LA have nothing to do with what Trump was talking about.
And even so, the notion of spending billions of dollars cleaning forest floors and destroying habitats to limit wildfires is a narrow minded way of thinking.
A big problem with these kinds of fires is that it's impossible to pick a fire line where you say, "everything closer to the fire than this is going to be sacrificed". Watch it all burn rather than risk getting sued for picking which houses can be saved.
Sucking trumps mini mushroom works better apparently…how quickly thoughts and prayers turned into fingering orange man’s asshole. Who’da thought?!
Wow. Just wow. Interesting shot at a burnt-out Starbucks at about the 50 second mark, showing water pouring out of a pipe in the ruins. Seems like they should be able to shut that off somewhere?
While raking or sweeping the forest floors isn't really feasible (Finland, Trump's model, covers only ~130K square miles. We have 4 states bigger than that), there's actually a nugget of truth at the center of the concept.
One of the major problems with US forests is the thick growth, particularly the undergrowth. For over a century we've put out every forest fire as quickly as possible, which has allowed accumulations of dry organics on the forest floor and let the shrubs and juvenile trees get unnaturally dense. Our bigger goal was to maximize harvestable trees...and we did. Meanwhile, we increased the quantity of combustibles. A natural forest system burns periodically and clears out the understory, but when that's less dense the fire doesn't burn hot enough to light the mature trees or to get into the tree crowns. When we let it accumulate, the understory fires burn longer, hotter, and higher, they burn the trees and get into the crowns, and then they're off and running.
There's no way we're going to rake and sweep it, but it would not be a terrible idea to clear the understory (including the old logging slash)...which probably means careful burning.
Of course, this isn't really relevant to the SoCal fires, since they're not in forests.
lol. They were putting out a small trash fire. And those are small containers they carry for such instances. Having spent 3 years with District 8 in Spokane a few decades ago as a young adult I can assure you this is a lot faster than pulling hose and cranking up the pump - especially if you are in a big hurry and have to be mobile to deal with other issues.
This is a fine example of how social media turns people into morons. Or morons into even bigger morons.
Two questions:
1. Does Elon Musk have any friends?
2. What kind of jerkoff loser goes filming with a camera and gawking at a tragedy in a place they have absolutely no business being?
Thank GOD for companies like this pitching in without hesitation to provide the only source of communication.
