Southern California on Fire

sandy said:
You all already knew one of my places was in paradise on the ocean.
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No we didn't. Because we neither pay attention to nor take your posts seriously to believe or even read most of what you say. But thanks for clearing that up for us. :D

I don't care about possessions.
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Yet you make a pretty big stink about having a house in 'paradise on the ocean'. Houses in SoCal aren't cheap, especially ones in the SD area on or near the ocean.

For the love of god, does anyone have any 'Sockpuppet Be Gone' spray?
 
A downed power line in Malibu. Arson for some of the others. Santa Ana wind gusts are keeping them going. :(
 
mikenostic said:
No we didn't. Because we neither pay attention to nor take your posts seriously to believe or even read most of what you say. But thanks for clearing that up for us. :D


Yet you make a pretty big stink about having a house in 'paradise on the ocean'. Houses in SoCal aren't cheap, especially ones in the SD area on or near the ocean.

For the love of god, does anyone have any 'Sockpuppet Be Gone' spray?
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I don't make a stink about anything except God, terrorists, illegal immigration, crime, and liberals. Everything else, not so much. ;)

No sockpuppet here. Just the real thing, baby. :D
 
Anyone watch CNN this morning? That poor reporter stood in his yard and reported on his own house burning to the gound in the background. I would have been in tears, but he mostly held it together.
 
I would bet $100k that the arsonist(s) are liberal. Most criminals list "Democrat" as their political party.
 
Actually much of the fire problems stem from the extreme environmental policies that don't allow for the removal of built up dead brush, and trees;

http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/ern/04jan/overview.php

By the 1970s the wisdom of this policy was being questioned. Rather than an unmitigated evil to be destroyed as soon as possible, the ecological community was coming to view fire as part of a natural cycle, cleansing and refurbishing America's forests. Fire may destroy unwanted infestations, restore habitats, and provide conditions for new vegetation to thrive. The major method for prompting these conditions has been prescribed fires, defined in the CRS Report Forest Ecosystem Health: An Overview (February 2001) as "using fire under prescribed weather and fuel conditions to reduce fuel loads."
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Prescribed fires remained the singular means of controlling fuel load growth until at least 1988, when an out-of-control prescribed fire contributed to a larger chain of wildfires in Yellowstone National Park. Prescribed fires were then temporarily banned, as environmental managers searched for a comprehensive strategy to balance the positive effects of fires with immediate safety concerns. Nevertheless, the fuel load, and the danger it brings, appears to have been rising steadily ever since, with the number of bad fire seasons increasing in the 1990s
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Fuel load is widely considered to be the major factor increasing the danger of wildfires. Forest Ecosystem Health explains how accumulated biomass--"dead and dying trees, dense undergrowth, and stands of small trees" is a major culprit for the recent increase in wildfires. Interestingly, however, according to the CRS Report Wildfire Protection in the 108th Congress (September 2003) there is no definitive proof of the dangers of fuel load: the evidence is largely anecdotal and based upon surmises from experts.
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Still the acreage of dead and dying wood and vegetation is increasing in scope and density. While native biodiversity is decreasing, such imported invasive species as fungi and beetles are adding to the threat. In California, for instance, Pitch Canker Fungus and Oak Mortality Syndrome have been killing numerous trees, likely laying the flammable groundwork for the recent fires. Insect infestations make it easier for fungi to infect already-penetrated trees.
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Still the acreage of dead and dying wood and vegetation is increasing in scope and density. While native biodiversity is decreasing, such imported invasive species as fungi and beetles are adding to the threat. In California, for instance, Pitch Canker Fungus and Oak Mortality Syndrome have been killing numerous trees, likely laying the flammable groundwork for the recent fires. Insect infestations make it easier for fungi to infect already-penetrated trees.
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Tree disease, then, works in a kind of deadly synergy with insect infestations. Pine bark beetles, which tend to attack stressed and sick trees, are a common source of trouble. True to its name, the Fir Engraver Beetle etches through tree bark, then bores deep within where it can lay its eggs.
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spidergoat said:
And most Republicans list "crime" as their hobby.
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Major kudos on the avatar.
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Didn't someone whine about that av when you had it up the last time?
Is that supposed to be a Hilter 'stache or the result of a Dirty Sanchez? LOL
 
Orleander said:

??? WTHell??? People died and EVERYTHING they had was lost. Good??
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Did I say it was good that people are dying?

Besides, Baron and I are having a moment. That's twice in, like, a week. Where are your priorities, woman?
 
Orleander said:
??? WTHell??? People died and EVERYTHING they had was lost. Good?? :mad:
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So? Who cares about 'em? I mean, it's not like they're black people and we can all watch the news in horror as the news crews pick out the most sensationalist, racist-type stories they can find. If there were blacks being burned out of their homes, the networks would milk it for all it was worth!

As it is, it's just another bunch of rich white people ....and no one gives a shit about rich white people except for a few other rich white people who know them personally.

Baron Max
 
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