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10-28-2019 02:44 PM
I don't and never have lived in Ca. but I don't remember these types of devastating fires except in recent years. Did you have them 20 years ago, to this extent? If so, OK I just don't recall them but, if not, what's changed in that time?
10-28-2019 02:52 PM
I'd assume the drought in the West has a lot to do with it. Everything is extremely dry and brittle, just tinder for a fire. We have the same here in New Mexico and have been getting just a small amount of what should be our average rainfall. Fortunately good snowfall in the mountains has kept forest fires down.
10-28-2019 02:57 PM
10-28-2019 03:03 PM
Tyak, have your heard about climate change, global warming?
10-28-2019 03:04 PM
i live in southern california part time because i own a business there and have a s/o there, but i was there during the 2003 and 2007 fires in san diego area. had never experienced anything like it before. gray skies, ash, poor air quality, roads shut down, homes lost, people and animals evacuated......
10-28-2019 03:04 PM
@Tyak wrote:I don't and never have lived in Ca. but I don't remember these types of devastating fires except in recent years. Did you have them 20 years ago, to this extent? If so, OK I just don't recall them but, if not, what's changed in that time?
The climate.
I grew up in CA and still have family there. The summers have been getting increasingly warmer where my parents are and the rain has been increasingly scarce. The house they live in has no AC and they didn't need it, but in the last 20 years, summer days have been getting hotter and longer. It used to be rare that temperatures would get over 92 and now that's more common. Days over 100 are also more common than they were when I was a kid in the east bay. Five years ago, they had to buy an AC unit to stay cool during the day.
10-28-2019 03:08 PM
I grew up there and we did not have fires like this then but with all the people moving to CA over the last 20-30 years they have built large housing developments in canyons and areas that are fire prone. Add that to the drought conditions in the west and you have a recipe for disaster.
10-28-2019 03:13 PM
@ahoymate wrote:Tyak, have your heard about climate change, global warming?
Nothing new. I grew up in San Diego, Ca when we HAD forest management. We still had fires especially around the time of Santa Ana winds, but they weren't as bad. It really upsets me when I hear it's all about global warming, which is obviously caused by us right? I went to college next door to Paradise, CA where they had a horrible fire. I suggest you watch the Nova special about this subject. We will always have cycles in the weather according to my geologist dad.
10-28-2019 03:20 PM - edited 10-28-2019 03:21 PM
@Tyak Draught or not, that area is always dry in the summer, and has been known for fires forever, but people took the chance and bought in that area, knowing sooner or later this might happen, but doubt anyone predicted this devastation. I could actually smell the fire and see the smoke in my area last night, and we are far away from the fires, blown all the way down here by historical winds on Sunday.
10-28-2019 03:23 PM - edited 10-28-2019 07:14 PM
QGirl2, it is new for No. California. Never, have fires that destroyed entire towns nor 90+mile/hour winds. It's new for No. California.
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