California Wildfires running thread

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Muir always does this though. When the Baltimore bridge collapsed he was on location doing the news in an outfit that made him look like he had just finished a double shift on the loading dock.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

OK, fair

That's not to say it wasn't being used to tighten up the nomex shirt or jacket he was wearing though. Double duty and all that.

 

[Webster]

There was a tweet going around of David Muir reporting from the ground in the yellow jacket and when he turned a bit to show what was behind him, you could see clothespins on the back of the jacket used to make it more form-fitting. Because it's a g-d fashion show in the middle of a disaster area.

It was the MAGA talking point of the moment because the mainstream media sucks and he dared fact check Dear Leader.

 

[HanSenSE]

This isn't the first time we've had this scenario. In 2017, Sonoma County and Santa Rosa specifically was nearly wiped off the map by the Tubbs fire. Very similar. Fire starts in hilly area then winds quickly push it to urban areas and it was a disaster.

A year later we had the Butte County fire that basically did wipe paradise off the map. That one is still head and shoulders worse than the LA fires but it was poor farming area and not multi million dollar homes.

Here, we worry about the mudslides from the scar area of the blazes in the San Lorenzo Valley (Felton, Boulder Creek, etc.) whenever a major storm hits.

 

[HanSenSE]

At one stop, we had a shooter who had one of those tennis ball yellow fire coats she'd wear on ashignments. When she came back the whole newsroom reeked of smoke scent within five minutes. But, darn, she got some nice shots.

 

[Songbird]

Jamie Lee Curtis

#californiastrong

 

[Songbird]

No way the fire didn't scorch the bus.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Here, we worry about the mudslides from the scar area of the blazes in the San Lorenzo Valley (Felton, Boulder Creek, etc.) whenever a major storm hits.

I have friends in Aptos and Santa Cruz who frequently have to worry about this. I think one of my coworkers had to evacuate her animals during one of those fires. She didn't lose her home but she was worried about it.

 

[Slacker]

No way the fire didn't scorch the bus.

It went there after the fire.

 

[Songbird]

I figured but the image leaves much to the imagination.

 

[qtlaw]

This isn't the first time we've had this scenario. In 2017, Sonoma County and Santa Rosa specifically was nearly wiped off the map by the Tubbs fire. Very similar. Fire starts in hilly area then winds quickly push it to urban areas and it was a disaster.

A year later we had the Butte County fire that basically did wipe paradise off the map. That one is still head and shoulders worse than the LA fires but it was poor farming area and not multi million dollar homes.

Yep those fires just obliterated entire towns.

 

[MileHigh]

Extreme wind scenario today and Wednesday for SoCal. New fire in Ventura County.