Posted on 07/31/2016 6:11:01 AM PDT by rktman
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. (Reuters) - A deadly blaze near California's Big Sur coast could widen to more than five times its current size and has destroyed some 60 homes, threatened hundreds of others and spurred mass evacuations, authorities said on Saturday.
The so-called Soberanes Fire, which started on July 22 and is burning just south of the oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has roared through nearly 32,000 acres (13,000 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber in the Los Padres National Forest.
The blaze is estimated to have a final size of 170,000 acres (265 square miles), according to California Interagency Incident Management Team 1, which is comprised of federal, state and local authorities. The cost of fighting the fire is now at about $6 million a day, it said on its Twitter feed.
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Found link to Global Supertanker. She can lay down a 2 mile stretch of liquid.
This story isn’t getting any attention on tv msm
Must be due to climate change....or Bush’s fault...take your pick.
US FOREST SERVICE AT THE READY
Sierra Club saving endangered ants/something again?
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Both, good choices, must be climate change. It will die down once we stop making gasoline.
It is due to this silly belief that if yo leave everything alone, don’t log (not much logging there, don’t graze, don’t do anything, it will be all natural. Natural, in the absence of any sort of use, is large, extremely hot wildfires.
This is park and wildlands conservationist poilicies of many years. By putting out ALL the forest fires the underbrush grows prodigiously and the BIG fire that happens in dry conditions with lightning or an arsonist’s match is truly catastrophic. The Indians of North and South America burned the forests at frequent intervals which did not destroy the grownup trees but cleared out a year or two’s accumulation of underbrush. Undergrowth never built up to clogging proportions. Lightning caused fires were minor things because there was very little fuel to burn.
We need a fleet of those to take out the big fires. Thought I would never see another 747 water bomber again.
I read that years of drought, shorter winters, longer spring, summer, and falls are perfect for this type of fire. If you look past the 100 years or so of records we have of weather and study the old forest there is a correlation between drought and these fire conditions. Further, the drought we are in ain’t nothing compared to the droughts that the rings on the trees of the old forest tell us about. Our reservoirs aren’t full, and some rain and a temporary reprieve notwithstanding, I think it’s possible that we ain’t seen nothing wet when it comes to wildfires.
Wet=yet
California burns in the Summer and floods in the Winter. It has always been so. I’ve seen half of San Diego County burn one September(1970 I think it was)and have seen over 10 inches of rain in a day in West Marin County(I think it was Winter of ‘82 or ‘83).
The Myacamas Mountains of Sonoma-Lake Counties can see over a 100 inches of rain in winter and be tinder-box dry in 100 + deg heat by July. The same goes for the coastal mountains of the Carmel-Big Sur area.
If somebody in California is saying this is the result of “Climate Change” they are either not from California or they are brain-washed liars.
Or wet. LOL!
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