You Think?
The people who write headlines for the AP need to get out more, maybe watch some news, read a newspaper, something.
All over I have been seeing this headline: “Huge wildfire portends bad Calif. fire season”.
Were they living in a cave for the Lockheed and La Brea fires?
InciWeb indicates there have been 24 wildfires of 5,000 acres or more on Federal land in the last 90 days. Fifteen of the them are still classified as “active”. It has been a bad fire season for months, even if you ignore what has been happening in British Columbia, and it sure isn’t apt to get better when the Santa Ana winds start kicking in.
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You had to go and mention the “Devil Winds” didn’t ya.
If they pick up, that corridor along the 210 is like a wind tunnel. Typical Santa Ana gusts can get up to 70mph at times. I thought for sure the whole house would pick up and land in Kansas somewhere during many of those winds.
At least up in Santa Bar-B-Que the gusts aren’t quite so bad, although we have the “sundowners” that blow down the mountains right into town.
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I remember sleeping the bath tub surrounded by ice when I lived in San Diego because there was no way of installing a window air conditioner when the windows slide to the side.
Later I used ice bags in a plastic tub with a fan blowing over it.
“You don’t need air conditioning in San Diego – the average temperature is 72°.”
No one said anything about those damn winds.
Quote of the Day –
“This was like the Jabba the Hut fire,” said Bill Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. “It’s menacing and big, but it definitely can’t move that fast.”
.-= last blog ..Thank you, Sheila =-.
We can hope that the winds don’t kick in and belie that point.
I just updated. The 747 and Mars Hawaii were used to protect Mount Wilson yesterday.