Nor Cal Fires...again

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Last year, the town of Santa Rosa
This year, the town of Paradise

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sf...Paradise-before-and-after-photos-13378605.php

Check out the link for before and after photos. Going on day 6 of being stuck inside from the smoke, but at least i have a home to be inside of. Could be worse.

As of Monday morning...113,000 acres, 29 dead, 25% contained. I'm like 2-3 hours away, and because of the wind direction and smoke, all schools in my county are closed again tomorrow.
 
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Oh man, hold tight. We had prolonged droughts this year, which were quite devastating for the agriculture, but such fires as you are experiencing now are indeed a disaster. Hope you and your neighbors will be good NGT.
 
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What is it with California and wildfires? This has been happening since I was a kid, surely smart people figured out a solution by now.
 
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LoneSage said:
What is it with California and wildfires? This has been happening since I was a kid, surely smart people figured out a solution by now.
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Eucalyptus trees dude, they excrete a highly flammable oil. They're all over Cali.
 
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radiantsvgun said:
Eucalyptus trees dude, they excrete a highly flammable oil. They're all over Cali.
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And in Australia hence why we also tend to have huge wildfires in the summer time and again it's mostly arsonists. :(

Hang in NGT! well until you actually need to leave that is.
 
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radiantsvgun said:
Eucalyptus trees dude, they excrete a highly flammable oil. They're all over Cali.
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A highly flammable oil assholes love to set fire to. Yeah, we have fires every year, and more often than not, they are traced back to someone having started them.
 
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SouthtownKid said:
A highly flammable oil assholes love to set fire to. Yeah, we have fires every year, and more often than not, they are traced back to someone having started them.
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I try to imagine what type of person would do this, what's going on through their minds, but I can't. Psychopaths?
 
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Update, 42 dead, hundreds missing, 6500 homes burned.

Air quality 2-3 hours away from the fire: 188
 
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lachlan said:
And in Australia hence why we also tend to have huge wildfires in the summer time and again it's mostly arsonists. :(
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You could always move here, but we don't have Vic Bitter- that might be a dealbreaker.

SouthtownKid said:
A highly flammable oil assholes love to set fire to. Yeah, we have fires every year, and more often than not, they are traced back to someone having started them.
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At the risk of sounding like a bad pun, you guys need to go on a witch hunt for these arsonists. Go all Salem witch trial and burn them at the stake.
 
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Perhaps a different method of execution would be safer. I always thought we should bring back the guillotine.
 
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radiantsvgun said:
You could always move here, but we don't have Vic Bitter- that might be a dealbreaker.



At the risk of sounding like a bad pun, you guys need to go on a witch hunt for these arsonists. Go all Salem witch trial and burn them at the stake.
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Why so defensive? Do you have something to hide?
 
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the arsonist are probably paid by the insurance companies...
 
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I thought it was caused by a camp fire
 
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