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The Stable Genius weighs in on the California wildfires

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  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 105,779 Founders Club
    salemcoog said:

    HRYK

    And Oregon and Washington run off too

    Rome did a couple centuries ago. Not that hard if you aren't wasting billions on a train from Fresno to Bakersfield

    Agreed. You? Pay for the aquifer and the metered gate and We? Will gladly except those billion$. However I’m not sure this fits into @CirrhosisDawg s California at all.
    We all one country united under our flag helping each other.
  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    salemcoog said:

    2001400ex said:

    salemcoog said:

    I'm confused. Are the fire fighters running out of water in S Cal when dealing with these fires?

    Hell hath no furry like So Cal fire season which will always happen when you have heat, fuel and wind. Don't see what water coming from North to South has to do with it. Both of my childhood homes came with in a c hair of burning to the ground in the 2003 and 2007 Cedar and Witch Fires.

    @RaceBannon is right about Washington/Oregon water going to CA at some point. It's inevitable.

    Welp the Carr Fire ran right through Lake Shasta, so water supply isn’t the issue here. It’s mismanagement of forests more than anything. Eventually all of the neglected forests will burn.
    You know better how to manage a forest than mother nature too. I see.
    No. No one does. And it didn’t really matter until people moved close to forests and then of course utilized them to build our country. After the Tillamook burn, the West realized that clear cutting alone wouldn’t prevent a big fire from forming. They realized you had to thin the forests and the ground clutter. But then in the 90s people that had no clue as to how to manage a forest locked the gates. Couple that with sustained above average heat and no humidity every Summer now, in the West, this is the new normal. Unless we spend the scratch to unlock the gates, eventually every neglected forest area will burn up in the West.
    Or we need to let them burn:

    "As a result of research conducted after the fires, a new fire management plan for Yellowstone was implemented in 1992. The plan observed stricter guidelines for managing natural fires, increased the staffing levels of fire monitors and related occupations, and allocated greater funding for fire management. By 2004, further amendments to the wildland fire management plan were added. According to the 2004 plan, natural wildfires are allowed to burn, so long as parameters regarding fire size, weather, and potential danger are not exceeded. Those fires that do exceed the standards, as well as all human-caused fires, are to be suppressed.[39] These changes are primarily updates of the 1972 fire management plan and continue to emphasize the role of fire in maintaining a natural ecosystem, but apply stricter guidelines and lower levels of tolerance.[40]"

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988
  • KaepskneeKaepsknee Member Posts: 14,885
    2001400ex said:

    salemcoog said:

    2001400ex said:

    salemcoog said:

    I'm confused. Are the fire fighters running out of water in S Cal when dealing with these fires?

    Hell hath no furry like So Cal fire season which will always happen when you have heat, fuel and wind. Don't see what water coming from North to South has to do with it. Both of my childhood homes came with in a c hair of burning to the ground in the 2003 and 2007 Cedar and Witch Fires.

    @RaceBannon is right about Washington/Oregon water going to CA at some point. It's inevitable.

    Welp the Carr Fire ran right through Lake Shasta, so water supply isn’t the issue here. It’s mismanagement of forests more than anything. Eventually all of the neglected forests will burn.
    You know better how to manage a forest than mother nature too. I see.
    No. No one does. And it didn’t really matter until people moved close to forests and then of course utilized them to build our country. After the Tillamook burn, the West realized that clear cutting alone wouldn’t prevent a big fire from forming. They realized you had to thin the forests and the ground clutter. But then in the 90s people that had no clue as to how to manage a forest locked the gates. Couple that with sustained above average heat and no humidity every Summer now, in the West, this is the new normal. Unless we spend the scratch to unlock the gates, eventually every neglected forest area will burn up in the West.
    Or we need to let them burn:

    "As a result of research conducted after the fires, a new fire management plan for Yellowstone was implemented in 1992. The plan observed stricter guidelines for managing natural fires, increased the staffing levels of fire monitors and related occupations, and allocated greater funding for fire management. By 2004, further amendments to the wildland fire management plan were added. According to the 2004 plan, natural wildfires are allowed to burn, so long as parameters regarding fire size, weather, and potential danger are not exceeded. Those fires that do exceed the standards, as well as all human-caused fires, are to be suppressed.[39] These changes are primarily updates of the 1972 fire management plan and continue to emphasize the role of fire in maintaining a natural ecosystem, but apply stricter guidelines and lower levels of tolerance.[40]"

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988
    Ah Hondo’s Wiki to his rescue. As we’ve seen repeatedly throughout The West recently it doesn’t matter whether we? Want to let it burn or not. These fires do what they want to do and there’s nothing we can do about it. Guess why?
  • KaepskneeKaepsknee Member Posts: 14,885

    salemcoog said:

    HRYK

    And Oregon and Washington run off too

    Rome did a couple centuries ago. Not that hard if you aren't wasting billions on a train from Fresno to Bakersfield

    Agreed. You? Pay for the aquifer and the metered gate and We? Will gladly except those billion$. However I’m not sure this fits into @CirrhosisDawg s California at all.
    We all one country united under our flag helping each other.
    How is my? Plan not helping California?
  • DooglesDoogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,590 Founders Club
    edited August 2018
    Jerry Brown building a train to Bakersfield almost killed everyone in Yuba county as the dam crumbled from overflow after years of neglect.

    We're in a drought until were not.
  • RoadTripRoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,792 Founders Club

    God. 70 percent of the fucking earth is water and we're worrying about not enough water.

    In 100 years people are going to laugh at us.

    We've accomplished a lot of stuff but man, using ocean water in a feasible process is one of the major missing ingredients.

    California already has around 20 desalination plants. Problems is that it takes huge amounts of energy and then you are left with a shit load of salt.
    I mean economically feasible.


    Yeah. It's not economically feasible.

    All I'm saying is that for a species that depends on fresh water to survive you'd think that would have been one of the first major inventions
    It is economically feasible but the extremely liberal 1% of 1% refuses to put their $ where their assholes are. There is $60 Trillion dollars in the world-wide economy. Something like 40 people control 50% of that total wealth.

    It's economically feasible for these men... at least 6 of which are flaming liberals. Fuck, now I sound like a socialist. I completely agree with Race and Pitch here because there are solutions to these problems but that would mean giving up some control of the masses.


  • Mosster47Mosster47 Member Posts: 6,246
    They could build a pipeline from Oregon to Fresno and divert 1% of the Columbia's annual flow and the valley would never have water issue again.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,150 Standard Supporter
    Mosster47 said:

    They could build a pipeline from Oregon to Fresno and divert 1% of the Columbia's annual flow and the valley would never have water issue again.

    Pump my river water, Duck.

  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Mosster47 said:

    They could build a pipeline from Oregon to Fresno and divert 1% of the Columbia's annual flow and the valley would never have water issue again.

    I'm hearing we shouldn't divert any water to the Pacific ocean.
  • KaepskneeKaepsknee Member Posts: 14,885
    Mosster47 said:

    They could build a pipeline from Oregon to Fresno and divert 1% of the Columbia's annual flow and the valley would never have water issue again.

    Exactly. We’re gonna build an aqueduct and make California pay for it!!!
  • oregonblitzkriegoregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288

    God. 70 percent of the fucking earth is water and we're worrying about not enough water.

    In 100 years people are going to laugh at us.

    We've accomplished a lot of stuff but man, using ocean water in a feasible process is one of the major missing ingredients.

    California already has around 20 desalination plants. Problems is that it takes huge amounts of energy and then you are left with a shit load of salt.
    I mean economically feasible.


    Yeah. It's not economically feasible.

    All I'm saying is that for a species that depends on fresh water to survive you'd think that would have been one of the first major inventions
    It is economically feasible but the extremely liberal 1% of 1% refuses to put their $ where their assholes are. There is $60 Trillion dollars in the world-wide economy. Something like 40 people control 50% of that total wealth.

    It's economically feasible for these men... at least 6 of which are flaming liberals. Fuck, now I sound like a socialist. I completely agree with Race and Pitch here because there are solutions to these problems but that would mean giving up some control of the masses.


    I also like how each one of these pigs constantly trash on Trump, but his tax cuts made them even richer.
  • KaepskneeKaepsknee Member Posts: 14,885

    God. 70 percent of the fucking earth is water and we're worrying about not enough water.

    In 100 years people are going to laugh at us.

    We've accomplished a lot of stuff but man, using ocean water in a feasible process is one of the major missing ingredients.

    California already has around 20 desalination plants. Problems is that it takes huge amounts of energy and then you are left with a shit load of salt.
    I mean economically feasible.


    Yeah. It's not economically feasible.

    All I'm saying is that for a species that depends on fresh water to survive you'd think that would have been one of the first major inventions
    It is economically feasible but the extremely liberal 1% of 1% refuses to put their $ where their assholes are. There is $60 Trillion dollars in the world-wide economy. Something like 40 people control 50% of that total wealth.

    It's economically feasible for these men... at least 6 of which are flaming liberals. Fuck, now I sound like a socialist. I completely agree with Race and Pitch here because there are solutions to these problems but that would mean giving up some control of the masses.


    I also like how each one of these pigs constantly trash on Trump, but his tax cuts made them even richer.
    They never wanted the Money!!!


    They never axed for it!!!
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