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Thread: 2020 Wildfire Season
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09-11-2020, 05:36 PM #601
AQI was 157 at 6 am. Now at 180. Heading to 225.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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09-11-2020, 05:40 PM #602
Apparently a good bit of you people are unaware of the fire triangle.
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09-11-2020, 06:01 PM #603Registered User
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Bend is 531. It is awesome
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09-11-2020, 06:02 PM #604
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09-11-2020, 06:10 PM #605Registered User
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09-11-2020, 06:13 PM #606
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Continuing the climate change discussion : trying to remember any significant episodes of smoke in the Bay Area between 1960 and 1990 and coming up blank, as in none. Assuming none occurred but would defer to sharper minds.
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09-11-2020, 06:55 PM #608
Woke to a really smokey bedroom. With the central HVAC not running and the house shut tight overnight, I was puzzled until I found that my wife had been running a bathroom fan for an extended period of time. Since then we have used exhaust fans more sparingly and have had less issues.
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09-11-2020, 06:58 PM #609
When you remove air from your home it is replaced by outside air.
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09-11-2020, 07:19 PM #610click here
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They used to burn all the rice fields yearly, around this time. Sacramento got it often enough to pass a law despite the strong ag lobby. Would guess it blew into the bay now and then.
Based on the 30 year time period, the Oakland hills should have burnt once or twice too. They are currently due - maybe this year.
Satellites make it more obvious what's going on. In the 60's, who's to distinguish a local grass fire from a distant forest fire?
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09-11-2020, 07:40 PM #611
Well I shut the door and only ran it for about 15mins to get rid of some of the smell then I taped it up and shut the door again. House is too cold to run AC so this is what I've got. Windows are top notch as are doors. Bathroom vents are my only weak spot.
AQI is now 366“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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09-11-2020, 07:43 PM #612Registered User
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09-11-2020, 08:06 PM #614“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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09-11-2020, 08:16 PM #615
I was looking at a house in Ukiah. Can’t buy fire insurance there right now and prior to the moratorium it was $3000 a year. Same house in wildfire safe area is $600.
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09-11-2020, 08:21 PM #616
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09-11-2020, 08:35 PM #617
crap we just went up to 405!
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09-11-2020, 08:54 PM #618
So the fires came from Gina. Just like I figured
People can argue all they want about what's the most important factor in the fires. They all matter. Some we can do something about, some we can't.
Fire suppression we can do something about right now--although the scale of the work required means it will happen very slowly if at all, but at least we can lobby for more thinning, clearing, and controlled burns near population centers.
The weather and terrain we can't do anything about.
The climate we can do something about, but if we start now we may see results in decades.
Land use and building codes we can do something about. It won't stop the fires but it will allow resources to be spent containing fires rather than protecting structures and rescuing people. There are a lot of places people are living where the risk of fire is too high and the resources locally available to protect them are too sparse. A lot of these burned communities shouldn't be rebuilt.
So fix what we can fix. Lobbing molotov articles back and forth doesn't fix anything.
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09-11-2020, 09:26 PM #619
In WA in the National Parks (Olympic, Rainier) and wilderness areas the powers that be have a policy of not trying to fight naturally started fires. They just let it burn uncontrolled. Not sure if this is the same policy in OR and CA. I wish more areas were wilderness and we could have this policy in more of the west because to me, it is on the only long term sustainable solution. Unfortunately, we have too much private land in the Western forests dotted with homes. So we are stuck trying to prevent and fight these fires. Thinning trees and clearing brush means building and maintaining roads, which is not good for the ecosystem, and not good for climate change long term. Stop subsidizing rural living over urban living so more people are economically forced to live in cities (because who wouldn't want to live in the mountains in the west with biking and skiing out their back door).
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09-11-2020, 09:48 PM #620
Dont forget North Cascades NP. In my experience working for the NPS they still do a lot of management on wilderness fires. They are certainly not airdropping in dozers but they are doing bucket drops and doing their best to manage burn intensity rather than a strict "let it burn" policy.
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09-11-2020, 10:09 PM #621
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09-11-2020, 10:54 PM #622
444 AQI now. I feel so bad for my horses but there is nothing I can do for them.
“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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09-11-2020, 10:59 PM #623
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09-11-2020, 11:20 PM #624
I just heard, without citation (maybe mikey could confirm or deny?) that China Peak ski area didn't have time to move out a half-ton of avy control explosives, and, well, you know. A bit of a show I guess if anyone was there to watch it happen. Oops!!
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09-11-2020, 11:24 PM #625
I heard they got a crew in there to get rid of it. Not sure if they moved it or disposed of it.
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