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California Fires
Jan. 13th, 2025 08:43 amThere has been a massive amount of bullshit strewn on the Internet about the ongoing fires in LA. I have thoughts.
1) Read this The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. The tl;dr version? The Malibu area is perfect for wildfires, has them on the regular, and will continue to have them. Every 20 years or so, one of them wipes out a bunch of houses. Most of the fires aren't and can't be stopped by man - they get stopped when the wind quits.
2) LA is not running out of water - the problem is that they can't move enough water through the pipes to keep up with demand. The only way firefighters are ever able to get enough water on these fires to put them out is via airdrop, which you can't do in hurricane-force winds.
3) Related to the above - the diversion of water to protect the snail darter is happening on the Klamath River, 600 miles north of LA. LA has never gotten water from the Klamath.
1) Read this The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. The tl;dr version? The Malibu area is perfect for wildfires, has them on the regular, and will continue to have them. Every 20 years or so, one of them wipes out a bunch of houses. Most of the fires aren't and can't be stopped by man - they get stopped when the wind quits.
2) LA is not running out of water - the problem is that they can't move enough water through the pipes to keep up with demand. The only way firefighters are ever able to get enough water on these fires to put them out is via airdrop, which you can't do in hurricane-force winds.
3) Related to the above - the diversion of water to protect the snail darter is happening on the Klamath River, 600 miles north of LA. LA has never gotten water from the Klamath.
