LA Fires!
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Chargeride
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Yeah, that lawyers house on the seaside of the PCH was built like that and survived undamagedYou can still have a wood or metal-framed home that is resilient in the face of earthquakes but have the exterior be concrete, metal, vinyl, or stucco all of which are sufficiently fireproof to be as survivable as you are going to get.
There are also these really cool vents that are fire safe. I make do with screens over all of my vents. Although some of them melted in the 2021 burnover event -- for that matter, some of the window screens melted.
Fire Resistant Vents and Ember Safe Vents - Vulcan Vents
Our flame & fire resistant vents are designed to provide excellent airflow & advanced protection against flame and ember penetration to protect the house.www.vulcanvents.com
Mr. Coffee
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This stuff is awesome for protecting wooden decks:
Chargeride
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The pillock that flew his drone into the air tanker, it seems that Dji have just dropped geofencing for America as well , so unless its some kind of special request dji drones can not be prevented from flying temporarily or continously from anywhere simpky by where they are flying.
It all seems very strange, that was quite a powerful feature for safety that even complete freedom fighters sort of agreed with.
And theyve just released the super cheap Flip which is a much larger Neo with foldable arms, and it has no geofencing, you'll see pallets of them in Costco.
Luckily it is very light 249gms, but its quite imposing and more likely to piss people off by the fact its weight allows it to be flown over people.
I know from first hand how these drones can go awol, I see trouble ahead.
It all seems very strange, that was quite a powerful feature for safety that even complete freedom fighters sort of agreed with.
And theyve just released the super cheap Flip which is a much larger Neo with foldable arms, and it has no geofencing, you'll see pallets of them in Costco.
Luckily it is very light 249gms, but its quite imposing and more likely to piss people off by the fact its weight allows it to be flown over people.
I know from first hand how these drones can go awol, I see trouble ahead.
Jeremy McCreary
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Thoughtful, balanced, evidence-based look at residential development in California's fire-prone urban-wildland interface — home to the current the Palisades and Eaton fires:
www.kpbs.org
No simple causes or solutions here, folks. No simple "why didn't they do this or that". No simple villains.
Why California keeps putting homes where fires burn
LA fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.
www.kpbs.org
No simple causes or solutions here, folks. No simple "why didn't they do this or that". No simple villains.
Chargeride
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Watching a low drone flight over the entire area, it was surprising to see how many homes were untouched right next to completely gutted neighbours.
Quite a lot survived on the hills.
But so.many people will have to sell their land for buttons and walk away.
Quite a lot survived on the hills.
But so.many people will have to sell their land for buttons and walk away.
Mr. Coffee
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Mr. Coffee
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Meanwhile, yahoos are saying this tragedy is caused by California's poor forest management. Which ignores the fact that the currently burning parts of Los Angeles are not a forest. For that matter, 57% of the forest land in California is owned by the federal government.
Chargeride
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Im referring to the uninsured, theres an awful lot of them, about 1500 I'm reading.
What do you think caused this devastation?
What do you think caused this devastation?
spokewrench
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Around here dry conditions and wind can mean big brush fires that could become forest fires. One July 4th during a drought my BIL insisted on firing illegal rockets on his farm. Unable to talk him out of it, I stood by with a bucket of water and a pump sprayer, knowing it would probably be too little, too late. During another July 4 drought, the mayor fired illegal rockets that exploded over our houses.
One dry February, my BIL's electric fence started a fire. Standing grassy stuff from the year before would have gone up like gasoline, but the fire extinguished itself. Inside the fence, goats had eaten so much vegetation that the fire crept along, set fire to down wood here and there, and stopped. Outside, I'd bush-hogged a fire break 8 feet wide.
In southern New England, natives used set to forest fires before planting in the spring and after harvest in the fall. In fields, it destroyed weeds and seeds. It kept the woods open, both for easy walking and to support a large deer population. Because these fires were frequent, they weren't hot enough to threaten dwellings, covered in mats similar to thatch.
One July, I was among hundreds and maybe thousands who fought a fire in an Alaskan swamp. I didn't see signs of drought.
One dry February, my BIL's electric fence started a fire. Standing grassy stuff from the year before would have gone up like gasoline, but the fire extinguished itself. Inside the fence, goats had eaten so much vegetation that the fire crept along, set fire to down wood here and there, and stopped. Outside, I'd bush-hogged a fire break 8 feet wide.
In southern New England, natives used set to forest fires before planting in the spring and after harvest in the fall. In fields, it destroyed weeds and seeds. It kept the woods open, both for easy walking and to support a large deer population. Because these fires were frequent, they weren't hot enough to threaten dwellings, covered in mats similar to thatch.
One July, I was among hundreds and maybe thousands who fought a fire in an Alaskan swamp. I didn't see signs of drought.
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