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quietannMy brother gets another day surfing. Right now I am trying to convince ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madbodger, who is stuck in San Diego unable to do the work he was sent there to do, to visit my dad and Helen, who are still cooped up at the retirement place. (My dad is annoyed, but it does make sense to tell a bunch of older people -- many of whom have heart conditions, emphysema, etc. -- not to go outside when the air is full of ash. They are allowed to go to meals in the main building but the security guys are giving everyone rides in golfcarts.)
Earlier today I caught a bit of a TV program, some talk show. They read an email from some guy in WISCONSIN who was critical of the fire departments in California for "not being on top of things and letting all those homes burn down." Some people just SOOOO do not get it. It hasn't rained in San Diego for SIX EFFING MONTHS. The forests are full of dead trees and chapparal that burns HOT. Many of the burning areas are mountainous and remote and have no roads, not to mention no water. A Santa Ana-related fire can travel *miles* in a single hour (the Laguna Canyon fire in 1993 went 7 miles in less than 2 hours). The fire departments are chronically short-staffed (they are actually sending fighters home from the fires now, because they haven't had a break in 3 days. This means more homes will burn, but it is better than having a bunch of firefighters die of exhaustion.)
I could go on, but.... argh! stupid people! (and I wonder if the hunter who started the Cedar fire with his signal flare is a recent transplant from Wisconsin, hehe.)
(and of course, yes, people choose to build their homes in the back country.... but that is another rant for another time.)
madbodger, who is stuck in San Diego unable to do the work he was sent there to do, to visit my dad and Helen, who are still cooped up at the retirement place. (My dad is annoyed, but it does make sense to tell a bunch of older people -- many of whom have heart conditions, emphysema, etc. -- not to go outside when the air is full of ash. They are allowed to go to meals in the main building but the security guys are giving everyone rides in golfcarts.)Earlier today I caught a bit of a TV program, some talk show. They read an email from some guy in WISCONSIN who was critical of the fire departments in California for "not being on top of things and letting all those homes burn down." Some people just SOOOO do not get it. It hasn't rained in San Diego for SIX EFFING MONTHS. The forests are full of dead trees and chapparal that burns HOT. Many of the burning areas are mountainous and remote and have no roads, not to mention no water. A Santa Ana-related fire can travel *miles* in a single hour (the Laguna Canyon fire in 1993 went 7 miles in less than 2 hours). The fire departments are chronically short-staffed (they are actually sending fighters home from the fires now, because they haven't had a break in 3 days. This means more homes will burn, but it is better than having a bunch of firefighters die of exhaustion.)
I could go on, but.... argh! stupid people! (and I wonder if the hunter who started the Cedar fire with his signal flare is a recent transplant from Wisconsin, hehe.)
(and of course, yes, people choose to build their homes in the back country.... but that is another rant for another time.)
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Date: 2003-10-28 11:35 pm (UTC)600,000+ acres now and rising. Holy hat-rack, Batman!
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Date: 2003-10-30 12:24 am (UTC)I think I feel the worst for the firefighters at this point in time, simply because they're so thoroughly overworked, and are gonna get yelled at for not saving *all* the houses by some of these nitwits.