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1 hour ago, buffalo_bill said:

Gentlemen, I have been watching numerous videos showing the California fires. There is virtually nothing left of thousands of houses, how is this possible? Are they made of plywood?

How the fire started is cause for speculation, conspiracy theories abound! But the lack of water comes from poor management of resources. Our governor is notoriously corrupt and allowed/advocated, for water to be diverted out to arid regions for Almond growing…oddly, the largest almond grower is also this governor’s largest financial supporter.  The result of poor water management resulted in farmers not getting needed water and well as river not flowing fully thus the wild salmon, steelhead trout/salmon and sturgeon fish etc cannot spawn, resulting in a ban on salmon fishing the last 2 years and possible this year… so lousy government/management is partially to blame. 

     The houses burn because of intense heat which can cause many things to ignite. Many homes are wood frame to some extent and to surrounding vegetation catches fire and then causes intense heat which cause the home to basically, for lack of a better word, “explode” or combust.

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We have been dealing with these type of fires here in Australia for centuries. I remember as a young boy my father up in the Blue Mountains up on the roof of my aunties with my cousins filling the gutters with water and keeping the roof wet. Most houses catch fire from embers not the fire itself. For years we've had had reduction burning programs in place.of high risk. We also have an extensive volunteer program and Rural Fire Services independent of the Government run ones I'm not sure if LA does. They are responsible for a lot of back burning during the cooler seasons.

We recently has what was known as "The Black Summer" The most severe fires peaked from December 2019 to January 2020. They burnt an estimated 24.3 million hectares or just on 100,000 square miles. Destroyed over 3,000 homes and killed at least 34 people. According to medical sources, bush fire smoke was also responsible for an additional 400 deaths. The big difference here is we have Eucalyptus Gum trees where as LA has I believe LA has mostly Blue Gums. The Eucalyptus Gum has a very high oil content which when alight explode like a fire ball.

For thousands of years Aboriginals have been using fire to maintain ecosystems and manage the land. In a practice called Cool Burning, often referred to as Cultural Burning, small blazes are set alight to clear the underbrush. This process generates patchy habitats preferred by small animals and prevents lightning and wildfires from consuming the land. Unfortunately, with centuries of Euro-Australian suppression of Aboriginal people, the practice of Cool Burning has diminished. Early settlers viewed fire as a threat and were unable to perceive of Cool Burning as a landscape-management practice. This has since exacerbated ecosystem degradation and put much of our land at risk of wildfires. This shift in land management became apparent during those recent fires I referred to.

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Gentlemen,

good news are coming within the next hours: the Ucraine war will be finished before 12:00 tomorrow because then President Orange said so.

Imports from Mexico and Canda exactly at the same time shall implode due to 20 % tariffs. Probably he still seriously thinks this will please the US consumers somehow. Rolling on the floor with laughter here.

Birthright citizenship to forget about later tomorrow afternoon, would need changing the constitution but Elon shall deal with it on Twitter I guess.

Sadness befalls me when I read about all this but it is what happens if uneducated gunowners execute their ( so far ) democratically guaranteed rights. We shall see what has happened within say the next 12 months. God bless America.

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Whilst concurring with the right honorable (‘merican spelling) Bubi, I did happen to notice the following:

In American Conflagration (fires in California) there is this - VW combi

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with a story

Being in Laos as I am, I could not help but notice that this van had been miraculously transported to Vientiane and whilst the paint had somewhat darkened on cooling, has been converted to a coffee shop.

 

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Also my uncle’s series III Landrover has been nicked from Twizel in NZ and placed here, to house a generator for powering the coffee shop.

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All of this is taking place on the shore of “Lake Thatluang” which 12 years ago was a charming small lake surrounded by swamp, but had been converted into Civic pride with footpaths, picnic margins, coconut palms etc.

Built on swamp you say?

Massive Chinese enterprise, now cracked, gashed, subsiding footpaths and road, wholesale dead coconut palms, need I go on…

In centre of the lake is large foundational structure which I am told was going to be skyscraper apartments, but now is concrete bits slowly decaying into lake.

But that’s OK because it’s all a special economic zone and Chinese folk can live in these apartments, built on land/swamp nearby.

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I drove past here last night and counted three lights on in apartments, all the rest preferring to sit in dark.

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