The dirty corrupt secret of the fire problem out there isn't that it burns, it always has. What is different now is the high density housing mixed into the areas that burn. When you build a high density vinyl village in an area that you know burns with regularity it's like lining up populated match heads in a row. Real estate developers, law firms and their well connected bureaucrats get rich while the land burns as it has for a long time. People sit in the ashes of shock and ask why this happened and then pick up their insurance check and rebuild the same kind of house in the same place. Blame global warming, sue the electrical utilities, whatever it takes to keep that river of cash flowing.
And to finish this off.....Follow the money.
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car from the profits he made off your dreams.
I was just going to ask if there was something we should follow!
As to the Traffic lyric, you know what happened to the man in the suit, right? (Those darned "silencers" )
But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest...
And now I'm off to youtube.
And its not just the overpopulating burn-ey areas. Its the econazis preventing prescribed burns because they are bad for the ecosystem, air quality, etc. They fail to grasp this stuff is SUPPOSED to burn every couple years. You end up with small, helpful (seeds, grasses, etc) fires every 5 years, instead of huge infernos.
The small burns are great for some seeds and many grasses. Some pines dont release seeds from the cones until they are heated. And once that happens more pines grow. UNTIL... no fire happens for years and then the inferno comes through, utterly destroying the cone AND the seed. Now permanent damage has been done.
Was the low spark of high heeled boys...........
I was not sure anyone would catch that.
Try and make sense to these nut sacks. Just try.
I've been looking for a cogent explanation for what rolling blackouts have to do with wildfires. Especially, why now? They had rolling blackouts back in the early 2000s. I remember hearing about those. They said it was because their power grid was old and ****. Okay, so they fixed that and I haven't heard of them having to endure anymore rolling blackouts until now. Why? Usually I find just a restatement of the need, and not a lower level discussion of causes and effects. But then I found, tucked away in a LG&E Q&A page, a statement to the effect that blames it on global warming, that the need to replace fossil fuels with green energy makes the capacity less, because the new energy sources haven't replaced the capacity of the old energy sources, so they have to shut things down when demand exceeds supply. You know. So **** the power grid isn't over-stressed and some transformer or substation blows up and sparks a fire that consumes 1M acres of rich people's estates.
Solution--3 things: 1) use more fossil fuels during peak times to meet demand. And as efficiency of green energy increases, taper off use of fossil fuels. Don't worry, Coronavirus has obviously, miraculously, saved us from global warming. 2) start managing forests in a way that reduces the likelihood of uncontrollable fires. 3) in dry season, tell people it's not all that important to set off fireworks just to reveal the gender of your baby. Really. No one else gives a **** about YOUR kid--it IS California after all.
This problem is 100% California-ethos induced policies and behaviors. And please keep the California ****tard virus contained within your borders. We don't need that to get out into the wild. You already ****ed up Colorado and are trying to **** up Utah, Idaho and Texas.
I've been looking for a cogent explanation for what rolling blackouts have to do with wildfires. ...