Comments on: The Fire Is Being Contained

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:32:35 +0000

The big difference from your situation, Kryten, is greater population density, and many more roads for evacuation. California has many of your problems in the fire areas – hills, few roads, and isolated settlements. It is a coastal plain in South Carolina.

Understood, Hipparchia.

I can’t say about the print edition, Andante, but the people on their site seem to know how to use a variety of tools to present the news, and they seem to have the ability to cover local news, which is what I want in a newspaper. You can get the AP feed anywhere.

Newspapers in tourist areas seem to have a hard time deciding whether to cover local violence to sell papers, or to keep it down to sell tourism. I would imagine they have a “sanitized” version of the paper for outside distribution.

By: andante

andante — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:11:25 +0000

The local Sun News folks have done a great j ob, in my opinion. They usually do, during a crises.

Thren they can go back to who shot whom, and ads for tourist traps.

Good on them!

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:14:26 +0000

yep. i should have added 'in populated areas' to my comment. hipparchia´s last blog post..Send faxes, faxes, and money!

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:04:54 +0000

Glad nobody has been injured, and hopefully it will be all over soon. Well done. 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:24:38 +0000

They can and do pump directly from the streams and rivers in the back country, but it will definitely cause problems in the urban areas, especially with the drought conditions. They can use seawater, but that is apt to kill trees and cause more problems later, so they don’t like to do it.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:48:13 +0000

Crews are keeping an eye on a water treatment plant near Long Bay Road that could be threatened by the fire ouch. that could be a real problem, as it's the potable water system that's generally used to fight fires. hipparchia´s last blog post..Send faxes, faxes, and money!