The Basics of Running a City

[sumdumguy]

Justine Bateman tells L.A. Mayor, “ If you are going to run a city, you have to take care of basics”. Discussions are taking place about how city and forestry mismanagement allowed a little fire to become unmanageable, burning down billions of dollars of homes and businesses and killing more than 16 people.

[checking]

Hundred mile per hour winds, miles of overhead power lines thru brush and trees, steep canyons, thousands of neighbours that would bitch to no end if an organized community decided it should burn out thicket laden undergrowth on calm windless days, and idiots with matches. Easy task. What could go wrong!

It is difficult enough to avoid a fire situation on a flat, treeless, worked prairie in a sparse population. My friend took his harrow, wired a few car tires to it, took it to his flax harvested field, lit the tires on a calm day, dragged it east a full mile, north a half mile, started back west, wind picked up as the fire passed his harrows and he baled out to the neighbour's summer fallow field before the fire engulfed his tractor. Said it didn't take ten minutes to blacken the entire half section.

[chuckChuck]

The flat earthers and hyper partisan bigots are quick to lay blame, but forget about the extended severe drought in LA and hurricane force winds which have been made worse by climate change.

No doubt they think it was the mayor of Ft Mac, Lyton and Jasper that were at fault because their communities were partly destroyed!

Proving once again you can't fix stupid!

[rastafarian]

Fire chief said a home on fire would get 3 fire trucks on site…there were 8000 homes on fire so there are NOT that many trucks in the entire state…Unfortunately .maga repubs spreading Misinformation Again thru their Bullshit spreader Fox,

[Hamloc]

The flat earthers and hyper partisan bigots are quick to lay blame, but forget about the extended severe drought in LA and hurricane force winds which have been made worse by climate change.

No doubt they think it was the mayor of Ft Mac, Lyton and Jasper that were at fault because their communities were partly destroyed!

Proving once again you can't fix stupid!

Of course it has never been dry in California before! The fact they have had no rain since April certainly makes it dry. And Santa Ana winds a new phenomenon? Of course not.

[farmaholic]

What happened when "man" wasn't around to start or put out any large forest fires?

Problem is "man" doesn't want Mother Nature to do any of her own house cleaning!

When has trying to control forces greater than man ever worked. When Mother Nature decides..... get out of the way!

[littledoggie]

"When we look at nature, we are only looking at the survivors" - Stephen Budiansky

[littledoggie]

Hundred mile per hour winds, miles of overhead power lines thru brush and trees, steep canyons, thousands of neighbours that would bitch to no end if an organized community decided it should burn out thicket laden undergrowth on calm windless days, and idiots with matches. Easy task. What could go wrong!

Tumbleweeds, eucalyptus and other non-native plants, asphalt or wood roofing.......

[blackpowder]

[url]https://youtu.be/vda9aFhBrjI?si=psAQ0J0xGC0xKYa_[/url]

Mike Rowe episode.
Has some interesting numbers.
I'd say blame the Chucks for the insane fuel load.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

[url]https://youtu.be/vda9aFhBrjI?si=psAQ0J0xGC0xKYa_[/url]

Mike Rowe episode.
Has some interesting numbers.
I'd say blame the Chucks for the insane fuel load.

Not only did they create the problem. They also have the only cure. And climate change is responsible for every problem known to mankind, and destroying capitalism is the only solution to every imaginable ( and imaginary) problem.