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Central California is being evacuated.

shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
It seems the fires are still out of control.
Glad I dont live there any more. Had things worked out differently, I'd have stayed to work at L3 or some other big contractor, off base.
 
One of the reasons I always have to push back against those that are against living near the coast with hurricanes.

We get warnings.

California wildfire don't.
 
CA is a very large state (770 miles long) and the wildfires are not in populated areas. LA Metro area is 19M people, San Diego Metro 3.4M, Bay Area 5M, Sacramento 2.5M.

Map of wildfires: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/

We we're almost helo evac'd out of the Sierra National Forest over Labor Day last year after being camped at Lake Edison. We went from "shelter in place" to "you should leave if you want" to "WTF evacuate". No cell service or any service up there as you cross Kaiser Pass at 9200ft.

www.cbsnews.com

Over 200 rescued by military helicopters in California fire

Twenty were transported to local hospitals, the Madera County Sheriff's Office said.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

As the Blackhawks couldnt make it to the China Peak parking lot where we were evac'd to - it was 3pm and pitch black and the hills around us were glowing. After a few hours they had to get us outta there so they escorted us and about 30 other cars down to Shaver Lake. Fire raging on both sides of the road.

What it looked like:

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s0me0nesmind1 said:
One of the reasons I always have to push back against those that are against living near the coast with hurricanes.

We get warnings.

California wildfire don't.
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Contrary to popular belief the wildfires do not go from 1-acre in size to 10,000 acres in a moment. Usually there is plenty of notice and few structures are lost. The Paradise Camp Fire in 2018 was a major event! And if you wonder why Gavin is being recalled - among other reasons.

Its the Tornado's that scare me. Funnel cloud to having your home ripped off its foundation in minutes.
 
Red Squirrel said:
It's crazy there is even still trees left to burn at this point. This seems to be a yearly thing now.
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Yearly fires is how it is supposed to be. The forests evolved to handle it. Giant Sequoia cones only open in high heat (fire). Coast redwoods need bare ground for the seeds to germinate. Dumb people decided fire was bad so they kept the fires at bay which wrecked the forests. Overgrown, unable to support that level of vegetation, so we now have massive fires.

Eventually we might get back to normal.
 
quikah said:
Yearly fires is how it is supposed to be. The forests evolved to handle it. Giant Sequoia cones only open in high heat (fire). Coast redwoods need bare ground for the seeds to germinate. Dumb people decided fire was bad so they kept the fires at bay which wrecked the forests. Overgrown, unable to support that level of vegetation, so we now have massive fires.

Eventually we might get back to normal.
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Exactly. 🙄

Folks that are being "caught by surprise" by this are about as freaking bright as all the dumb fvcks who "didn't know" the west's water usage on the Colorado was unsustainable even without climate change.

Ranger Rick (a nature magazine for kids) was writing about this stuff in back in the mid-1970's as was every reputable environmentalist.

And the bad news is the only way we go back to "normal" is if the human race gets wiped out and 50k years pass. (a blink of an eye to the Earth)
 
shortylickens said:
It seems the fires are still out of control.
Glad I dont live there any more.
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Same. Fires. Droughts. Earthquakes. Super high living prices. Has a few drawbacks lol.

However, it's been my favorite place I've ever lived - wonderful beaches, chill people (at least in SoCal lol), ridiculously scenic drives, etc. And if you like food, LA is NYC's incubator, so all of the cool stuff comes from there.

But...

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Scarpozzi said:
Yep.....great place to visit.
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Same with Florida. Florida was even worse...flooding, hurricanes, fire ants, alligators, snakes, rains like every day, humidity always fogged up my glasses when I stepped outside, and I'm pretty sure the heat affects people's brains (re: Florida Man). I'm in New England now & totally love it...NYC & Boston are an hour away, Pennsylvania is half a day's drive (food from Reading Market, Amish butter, etc.), Maine/Vermont/New Hampshire are all amazing for hiking/camping/visiting, Rhode Island is surprisingly fun, and even New Jersey has some highlights. NYC is like a kaleidoscope of food & activities & I still have so many on my bucket list to finish - still haven't visited stuff like the Statue of Liberty! The new Freedom Tower is 100% worth the price to go up the cool elevator & see the curtains reveal the landscape at the top.

Plus I love having seasons, as I never grew up with seasons. I love for all of the fall crap here...leaf colors, apple cider donuts, all that jazz lol. And I actually like having winter, as I never had it growing up. Plus you can swim in the lakes here, no leeches or gators or water moccasins lol.
 
RPD said:
Central CA is not being evacuated. Some people in the Sierra Nevada's sure, but central CA, nope.
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Obviously not .... after all it IS rather large! 😉


The Central Valley (California) covers approximately 18,000 sq mi (47,000 km2), about 11% of California's land area. The valley is bounded by the Coast Ranges to the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east.

(Nearly 4x the size of Connecticut in square miles although with VASTLY lower population density for most of it)
 
weather.cod.edu

COD NEXLAB: Satellite and Radar

Check out COD Meteorology's Satellite and Radar Data
weather.cod.edu weather.cod.edu

Use "localized sectors" to zoom in; change number of frames to look back in time.

Yesterday the combined fires in California, Oregon, and Washington grew by over 400,000 acres (1600+ km2).
 
Kaido said:
Same. Fires. Droughts. Earthquakes. Super high living prices. Has a few drawbacks lol.

However, it's been my favorite place I've ever lived - wonderful beaches, chill people (at least in SoCal lol), ridiculously scenic drives, etc. And if you like food, LA is NYC's incubator, so all of the cool stuff comes from there.

But...

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I actually preferred Florida beaches, but its not a huge difference.
 
Captante said:
....but I'd never want to own land there? 😛



😕 😳
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Pretty much. All these places that get natural disasters like California, Florida, Tornado alley etc. Nice places to visit I'm sure, but I sure as hell would not want to own anything there.

I'll stick to northern Ontario where the worse thing that can happen is a bear getting into your garbages. They got mine a few nights ago, got neighbours' last night lol.

We do get forest fires but not like California does. Though the north west part of ontario is a whole other story, like that whole section is on fire right now it's pretty bad. Lot of communities have evacuated to my city actually.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Pretty much. All these places that get natural disasters like California, Florida, Tornado alley etc. Nice places to visit I'm sure, but I sure as hell would not want to own anything there.

I'll stick to northern Ontario where the worse thing that can happen is a bear getting into your garbages. They got mine a few nights ago, got neighbours' last night lol.

We do get forest fires but not like California does. Though the north west part of ontario is a whole other story, like that whole section is on fire right now it's pretty bad. Lot of communities have evacuated to my city actually.
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You live with nine months of disaster every single year.
 
IronWing said:
You live with nine months of disaster every single year.
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Hey at least it does not require me to rebuild my house. Well unless the furnace was to break down and the water main bursts, then yeah that would be a disaster. Basement would fill up, it would eventually freeze, then probably force the foundation walls apart. The Texas power incident made me realize I should probably have a form of backup heat in case we were to ever lose hydro or natural gas service here in winter. I need to finish my solar project and bring power in from the shed. Want to do that before winter.
 
Lol. I like more northern Califonia personally, as it is cooler.
 
Despite water at the Hoover Dam being at record lows, with just enough capacity to eeke out power for CA and Las Vegas (not to mention drinking water), Utah wants to divert water from the Colorado River so they can build luxury life style homes complete with water hungry green grass suburbs with lots of golf courses........in the middle of a desert. Because land is cheap and developers simply do not have enough billions and nobody wants to live in the same place more than 12 months anyway.

lol


 
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