If we get a heat dome like the PNW is getting over central & southern CA (or for fuck's sake, possibly even if we don't), it'll be another summer of infernos for some, thick smoke-overcast for others. The valley we live in is just right for smoke from the southeast to park its fat ass over us and stay there.
Yeah, burning to death would be bad too.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
At this point I presume everything in California will burn down eventually. Which is probably a bit of depressed pessimism, but at this point it’s less about getting sad about what the fires burn and more about surviving them. A few years ago now part of the foothills that I grew up in burned down. Then I lost a friend (not to the fire) and we commemorated her at a nice burner art establishment. A year or so later, that burned down. Then some of the friends I commemorated her with died in a boat fire. And here were are again, in scorching hot fire season. I do feel some of the pessimism is well earned.
The only reason I thanked that poast is because I agree, you earned the pessimism.
Fuck.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
I don’t think we have a Towns you didn’t know existed but also died thread, so… Greenville California. was a town of a bit over 1000 people, some its historic buildings date back to 1881 when… the town was destroyed in a fire… hmm I’m starting to see a pattern. All the people survived.
Look, just cause you guys have your one night stand building clad fires, doesn’t mean others don’t like to wine and dine their fires and learn their name, maybe order them a whole winery, with some goldrush town for desert…
The California Dixie fire is reaching the size of Rhode Island, which may be the smallest state, but soon a whole state can fit into one of our fires! With the Dixie fire at 623,000 acres and Rhode Island around 782,000 acres.
Another fire, the Caldor fire took out the small mountain town of Grizzly Flats. So named because gold and copper minners were once surprised by a grizzly bear.