His point is, in 70mph winds, everything is 1/3rd of the fire triangle.
When vehicles in the middle of the street are being reduced to scrap metal, chaparral is not your problem, everything is.
His point is, in 70mph winds, everything is 1/3rd of the fire triangle.Fuel (chaparral) is literally 1/3 of the Fire Triangle (Fuels, Oxygen, and Heat). What is your point exactly?
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I'm totally aware that the winds being close to 100mph makes a lot of firefighting tactics next to impossible but ignoring dry fuels as a (partial) cause of this seems to be going down the wrong path here. Fuels reduction being taken seriously at the state and federal level is one of many things that need to change.
Oh, I take action. Reduce footprint, plant trees, recycle, all that jazz. I just acknowledge it's not going to make a difference.I'm unsure how to parse this, TBH. How do I know it isn't your excuse to not care about the consequences of your actions?
Individually it won't, but when enough people do it adds up. People have made an impact to carbon emissions with LEDs, solar panels, buying EVs, etc. Just like people have made an impact by buying SUV and Trucks and growing the size of their houses.Oh, I take action. Reduce footprint, plant trees, recycle, all that jazz. I just acknowledge it's not going to make a difference.
But if I blame all carbon emissions on oil companies (who produce things we use all the time), I don't have to take any responsibility for my personal choices.Individually it won't, but when enough people do it adds up. People have made an impact to carbon emissions with LEDs, solar panels, buying EVs, etc. Just like people have made an impact by buying SUV and Trucks and growing the size of their houses.
Charlie Kirk wants the IOC to relocate the 2028 Olympics (which is not going to happen) to punish Los Angeles for letting black people be firefighters instead of white men.
Far-right activist: Strip LA of the 2028 Olympics as punishment for not stopping wildfires
Far-right youth activist Charlie Kirk demanded that Los Angeles be stripped of the right to host the 2028 Olympic Games over not being able to hold back this week's devastating wildfires, The Daily Beast reported on Friday.“The Los Angeles Olympics should be cancelled,” Kirk posted to X. “If you...www.rawstory.com
Charlie Kirk racist meltdown blames wildfires on lack of 'white men' firefighters
In a racist and bigoted tirade on Thursday, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk blamed the California wildfires on lesbians and a lack of "white men" firefighters."California has been the petri dish," Kirk bellowed on his Thursday podcast. "It has been the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the...www.rawstory.com
Anyone ask why is a dipshit like Charlie Kirk a thing? This simpleton explains quite a few things about the Maga cult - the racism, sexism, transphobia, ethnonationalism, admiration for authoritarian states, opposition to birthright citizenship, even why guys like Ramaswamy pal around with them.
It’s because they want a caste system where everything from your socio-economic opportunities to your basic human rights are determined by the circumstances of your birth and are fully immutable.
And they want it because it’s the only way mediocre shitheads like Charlie Kirk are capable of maintaining any position of authority or getting people to pretend to like them.
Barring a deus ex machina invention or politician, the scope is too far gone at this point to make a difference. During the Paris climate accord in 2015, we were on track to hit 1.5c in 2040, and the agreement was designed to try to limit the effects of climate change to that number.Individually it won't, but when enough people do it adds up. People have made an impact to carbon emissions with LEDs, solar panels, buying EVs, etc. Just like people have made an impact by buying SUV and Trucks and growing the size of their houses.
Of course it matters where it came from, and how it got started. If your family was killed by a reckless driver and you were told the drivers name wasn't important would you accept that? China was doing shit that had an immediate and extremely detrimental effect on the entire planet, it absolutely matters to every single person alive today.Seriously, why the fuck does it matter to 99.999% of the population where it came from? The idea that if it came out of the lab the response to it would've been/should've been different is stupid.
Lab security should be improved regardless and gain of function research should be highly regulated regardless. The fact Trump somehow convinced people that because it might have come out of a lab that we didn't need to take it seriously makes no sense.
The wet markets were the bad thing, and they were well known to be a bad thing for potential pandemics. No need to invent a fantasy to be mad at.Of course it matters where it came from, and how it got started. If your family was killed by a reckless driver and you were told the drivers name wasn't important would you accept that? China was doing shit that had an immediate and extremely detrimental effect on the entire planet, it absolutely matters to every single person alive today.
How did it matter one bit to the public health response? Sure it matters for future prevention and maybe "punishment," whatever that might look like. But it's origin didn't matter at all for our response once it hit the states. Trump and his friends only pushed the origin story to distract from his horrible response to it.Of course it matters where it came from, and how it got started. If your family was killed by a reckless driver and you were told the drivers name wasn't important would you accept that? China was doing shit that had an immediate and extremely detrimental effect on the entire planet, it absolutely matters to every single person alive today.
On a metropolitan city like LA, even if you fill 1.000 fire trucks and 1.000 planes with fresh water twice, you only use 0,5% of daily fresh water usage of the city. (All calculations are metric so I am not sharing)I have no idea. That would be something for an engineer to figure out. It could be that it can't be done at all. We have a couple of examples of what doesn't work very well, seems like a starting point.
The problem is either addressed or ignored. My hunch is it will be addressed through administrative means as that's the cheapest option.
The options are "it just happened", or the nearby lab doing gain of function research on the virus fucked up. I bet pretty long odds it was the lab.The wet markets were the bad thing, and they were well known to be a bad thing for potential pandemics. No need to invent a fantasy to be mad at.
So on one side, we have: 1) prior cases of zoonotic infections from wet markets (including the original SARS outbreak); 2) all the initial cases centering around the market and not the lab 30 km away; 3) DNA evidence from swabs taken from the market supporting links to the COVID-19 virus.The options are "it just happened", or the nearby lab doing gain of function research on the virus fucked up. I bet pretty long odds it was the lab.
And the source of the virus doesn't change the public health response. The Trump administration fucked up, and the lab leak bs has only been pushed to distract from that mess.
Filling doesn't really mean much, one hose can use up to 250 gpm. If you are running 500 hoses, that is 125,000 gallons per minute. Some very quick hand calcs show that you'd need a 6 foot diameter pipe just to supply that type of flow assuming you were pretty close the pressure source. If you are a few miles away, it would need to be quite a bit bigger.On a metropolitan city like LA, even if you fill 1.000 fire trucks and 1.000 planes with fresh water twice, you only use 0,5% of daily fresh water usage of the city. (All calculations are metric so I am not sharing)
conservatives care less about doing the right thing vs someone must be punished in some way if a bad thing happensThis is the core problem with most people latching on to a lab leak. It is in service of excusing US response in the form of the President going on TV and saying stuff like "Stop the testing!".
Anyway in either scenario the Chinese were doing irresponsible things that led to a bad outcome. I'm not sure how that functionally matters besides the point above.
I'm not sure what your point is. The fire department stated that there was a lack of water at some of the hydrants that hampered the fire fighting effort. That's infrastructure issue. The same thing happened years back in the Oakland hills fire.On a metropolitan city like LA, even if you fill 1.000 fire trucks and 1.000 planes with fresh water twice, you only use 0,5% of daily fresh water usage of the city. (All calculations are metric so I am not sharing)
If these areas are allowed to rebuild, the water system probably does need some basic hardening, like remotely operated shut off valves or hydraulic fuses in meters. I doubt it'll make a huge difference, but are relatively low cost, and could help prevent just bleeding the system dry.I'm not sure what your point is. The fire department stated that there was a lack of water at some of the hydrants that hampered the fire fighting effort. That's infrastructure issue. The same thing happened years back in the Oakland hills fire.
The systems are designed to supply X amount of water at X number of locations under X pressure, I would assume that design didn't account for a fire storm and every hydrant being in use.
I'm still unclear as to what the argument is here. The place burned to the ground, it's time to look at what happened and take some measures to mitigate it happening again. That could be as simple as telling everyone that rebuilds "you're on your own", all the way up to declaring the entire area unbuildable. I don't know the answer, but I know what the options are, and I've already stated my guess as to what will be done. I'll check back in a year or two and see if I was right.
If only the US had people in place to monitor and watch for such things.. oh wait.. we did.. until Trump took office and eliminated the program that had the people doing that.The options are "it just happened", or the nearby lab doing gain of function research on the virus fucked up. I bet pretty long odds it was the lab.
The big freeze we had in Texas caused enough pipes to burst that water pressure dropped. That meant the known leaks in the system were no longer at positive pressure and allowed ground water to leak backwards into the system requiring boil notices.
I remember seeing videos from the Texas freeze of water just gushing in the background and the person talking about how they couldn't get a plumber or something or other and I'm just going nuts thinking "Shut off your damn water." It blows my mind that people will sit in a flooding house making Tik Tok videos but won't think to look up how to shut off their water supply.Yep, all kinds of stuff burst from water mains to sprinklers systems to pipes inside homes/businesses. Stuff just isn't buried deep enough or insulated enough because it "never gets that cold here". Of course the vast majority of homeowners have no idea where their water meter is or how to shut off the supply from the street.
there really are only two real solutions to prevent something like this to happen under these "perfect storm" conditions, which is a rare accurance, and the end cost being substantial to implement and maintain.. 1) firehydrants would need to be put on seperate water lines thru out the city, with nothing else on them, which also would require their own seperate water supply, infrastructure, etc. and/or 2) every house has a remote shut off installed that either activates automatically during a fire, where the shut off mechanism, and water line to it, are fire proof, and/or has a remote shut off that can be activated by the city, or fire department. They would have to be tested, maintained, but could still malfuction during a fire. Of course, that is if you have no issues with available water sources. There are many places around the country that have build restriction and/or unable to build becase there is a freeze on water permits because some areas have limited water sources.I'm not sure what your point is. The fire department stated that there was a lack of water at some of the hydrants that hampered the fire fighting effort. That's infrastructure issue. The same thing happened years back in the Oakland hills fire.
The systems are designed to supply X amount of water at X number of locations under X pressure, I would assume that design didn't account for a fire storm and every hydrant being in use.
I'm still unclear as to what the argument is here. The place burned to the ground, it's time to look at what happened and take some measures to mitigate it happening again. That could be as simple as telling everyone that rebuilds "you're on your own", all the way up to declaring the entire area unbuildable. I don't know the answer, but I know what the options are, and I've already stated my guess as to what will be done. I'll check back in a year or two and see if I was right.