uhm...no. It's a California law that you need to maintant a 100 feet radius of defensible space around your property, which means you need to clear dried brush and such.
I heard somewhere that it might have a lot to do with laws preventing "deforestation" and removal of a lot of brush and such. Every few years, after it has become overgrown, it dries out enough to cause a big problem. A friend from Cali told me this, so I suppose I am more inclined to believe him.
I heard somewhere that it might have a lot to do with laws preventing "deforestation" and removal of a lot of brush and such. Every few years, after it has become overgrown, it dries out enough to cause a big problem. A friend from Cali told me this, so I suppose I am more inclined to believe him.
I wouldn't be there to begin with. I'd get the f*ck out as fast as possible.
I don't wish death on this guy, but it's pretty insane to expect to put out a raging fire with a garden hose.
He showed as logged in earlier. I thought he'd update the thread but maybe things aren't going well.Did Jules make it?
Yea, that's going to work.
He showed as logged in earlier. I thought he'd update the thread but maybe things aren't going well.
If he is at home most of the northern part of the county doesn't have power right now.
Stone Brewing has evacuated. Ugh.
https://plus.google.com/+StoneBrewingCo/posts/7XoMrPU1fob
I've been to their brewery. There are a lot of businesses over there including the Ducati dealer I bought my bike from.
We're ready to go if we get the call.
Hope they get these fires under control soon.
what goes around comes around ... remember nice posts from SoCali ppl this last winter about how weather is so nice there and they don't understand why would anybody live up in north..
So mowed my lawn yesterday, after few nice rains over past few weeks, it never looked so green and strong. Temperatures are between 50s and 70s, with nice mix of clouds and sun, some days with some rain.
We're ready to go if we get the call.
Hope they get these fires under control soon.
If anyone wants to hear live radio scanner traffic check out broadcastify.com
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/10892
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14255
Its as sad as the folks in tornado alley losing yet another mobile home.Sad, you hear them losing structure after structure.
The Santa Ana winds and the accompanying raging wildfires have been a part of the ecosystem of the Los Angeles Basin for over 5,000 years, dating back to the earliest habitation of the region by the Tongva and Tataviam peoples.[12]
The Santa Ana winds have been recognized and reported in English-language records as a weather phenomenon in Southern California since at least the mid-1800s.[1] Various episodes of hot, dry winds have been described over this history as dust storms, hurricane-force winds, and violent north-easters, damaging houses and destroying fruit orchards. Newspaper archives have many photographs of regional damage dating back to the beginnings of news reporting in Los Angeles. When the Los Angeles Basin was primarily an agricultural region, the winds were feared particularly by farmers for their potential to destroy crops.[1]
The winds are also associated with some of the area's largest and deadliest wildfires, including the state's largest fire on record, the Cedar Fire, as well as the Laguna Fire, Old Fire, Esperanza Fire, Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 and the Witch Fire.
In October 2007, the winds fueled major wild fires and house burnings in Escondido, Malibu, Rainbow, San Marcos, Carlsbad, Rancho Bernardo, Poway, Ramona, and in the major cities of San Bernardino, San Diego and Los Angeles. The Santa Ana winds were also a factor in the November 2008 California wildfires.
In December 2011, the winds led to "state of emergency" declarations in several municipalities after 80+ mph gusts toppled hundreds of trees, power lines, and traffic signals throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Approximately 230,000 people were left without power for an extended period after the incident.[13]
In May 2014, the winds initiated the San Diego County fires, months after the Colby Fire in northern Los Angeles County.
Yea, that's going to work.
Building below sea level definitely isn't natural. You deserve that disaster.Thank goodness I don't live in an area with natural disasters.
Thank goodness I don't live in an area with natural disasters.