Natural Disasters & Weather Related Current Events

thinkreadwritecode said:
I dunno, if I were in an as-of-yet untouched area I wouldn't wait around, I'd be getting out of dodge now since it will be utter gridlock whichever way you go, better to get a headstart on it.
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LA County has 10 million people, and actually the map above shows much of Orange County under threat as well, nearly 15 million total. There's no place for that many to go.

I doubt the whole metro area will burn, but I wonder if the affected area could get a lot, lot bigger. With arsonists lighting fires, who knows how far things could go?
 
Kiwi said:
Hard to see but it looks like a gas torch/bottle on the hood. Probably easy enough to get from Walmart and throw in a backpack and light a bunch of spot fires. Good news that the citizens did their duty though. (y)
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He's lucky he didn't get beat to death. I wonder if he got roughed up a little in the process of being detained by those citizens.

The DA will most likely release him without charges.
 
RedLagoon said:
It's all orchestrated my dear American friends. They've been doing this in Kangaroo land for years now. Expect more taxes and loss of freedoms.
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It does seem more sporadic and unnatural.

I remember being in Melbourne during the Black Saturday bushfires (2009) coming back from a surfing trip from Phillip Island. That day was on the back of three consecutive days of 43 degrees (109 Farenheit) , it eventually reached 46.4 that day, (115 Farenheit) The hottest temperature ever in the city.

Combined with the hot winds meant it was the perfect combination of factors - including lightning strikes - for a natural catastrophic event.
Bush fires every summer in Aus are common, but it was very somber moment waking up the next day smelling smoke and hearing the extent of the tragedy as it unfolded in the news. I will forever remember that day for many reasons.
 
Kiwi said:
It does seem more sporadic and unnatural.

I remember being in Melbourne during the Black Saturday bushfires (2009) coming back from a surfing trip from Phillip Island. That day was on the back of three consecutive days of 43 degrees (109 Farenheit) , it eventually reached 46.4 that day, (115 Farenheit) The hottest temperature ever in the city.

Combined with the hot winds meant it was the perfect combination of factors - including lightning strikes - for a natural catastrophic event.
Bush fires every summer in Aus are common, but it was very somber moment waking up the next day smelling smoke and hearing the extent of the tragedy as it unfolded in the news. I will forever remember that day for many reasons.
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I was in the middle of black Saturday and it was terrifying seeing the literal waves of flames go up the mountains, truly unbelievable to see how powerful nature is even though we escaped death by not much.

But since the Gippsland fires and just now the Grampians fires I wonder how much of these "lightning" fires are actually started and whose agenda it finally serves.
 
RedLagoon said:
I was in the middle of black Saturday and it was terrifying seeing the literal waves of flames go up the mountains, truly unbelievable to see how powerful nature is even though we escaped death by not much.

But since the Gippsland fires and just now the Grampians fires I wonder how much of these "lightning" fires are actually started and whose agenda it finally serves.
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Red' i'm glad you escaped that mate. I can't imagine. The stories out of that part of Victoria are so incredibly sad from that time. Wanting to stay and protect your land or neighbours leaving and not making it out. So much respect for the firefighters that battled endlessly and from memory there was a Fire Brigade or a couple of trucks that got caught between fires and lost their lives. (it was a long time ago, I might be wrong but I remeber seeing burnt out Fire trucks)

It was so insane to see nature like that. I remember walking around St Kilda the next day and just smoke coming through the city and nobody around like a ghost town, not knowing what to think.
 
Kiwi said:
Red' i'm glad you escaped that mate. I can't imagine. The stories out of that part of Victoria are so incredibly sad from that time. Wanting to stay and protect your land or neighbours leaving and not making it out. So much respect for the firefighters that battled endlessly and from memory there was a Fire Brigade or a couple of trucks that got caught between fires and lost their lives. (it was a long time ago, I might be wrong but I remeber seeing burnt out Fire trucks)

It was so insane to see nature like that. I remember walking around St Kilda the next day and just smoke coming through the city and nobody around like a ghost town, not knowing what to think.
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Thanks Kiwi, it went from "watch and act" to "leave now" to "no more time to leave" in minutes.

We decided to stay, watering the roof lawn shed etc but the smoke got so bad we couldn't see our hands in front of us.
We stayed inside playing board games for like five days or so as there was no power water or anything and there was nothing more we could do anymore.

Seeing and hearing (especially) kangaroos and koalas trying to get out will stay with me until the day I die.

God Bless those in the fires
 
Thomas More said:
He's lucky he didn't get beat to death. I wonder if he got roughed up a little in the process of being detained by those citizens.
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It's Cali - they're lucky that he didn't go full-chimp on them.
Thomas More said:
The DA will most likely release him without charges.
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They might even charge the citizens - how dare they apprehend someone who was just trying to warm himself.


FrancisK said:
Ya know....I always hated the cold here in Michigan.

Maybe it ain't so bad!
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Go to Florida - it's hot and humid, no brush fires there. On the flipside, they've got gators and hurricanes.


FrancisK said:
Also....we've conveniently all completely forgotten about the New Orleans terror attack because of these very strange fires....
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The fires themselves aren't really that strange. It's the third world-like response that's beyond bizarre. And at some point, one has to wander: where DEI incompetence ends, and malice begins.
 
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