Looks Like A Bad One

LittleRambo1 2017-10-09 15:11:37 UTC #1

Slide show is best.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2-big-wildfires-prompt-evacuations-in-Napa-County-12262945.php#photo-14312701

Santa Rosa and the wine country are all on fire

LittleRambo1 2017-10-10 14:48:20 UTC #2

The updated video is worth checking out, just scroll down a bit. These people need to get their act together, they only live next to the Pacific Ocean!

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2-big-wildfires-prompt-evacuations-in-Napa-County-12262945.php#photo-14312701

comeatmebro 2017-10-10 15:00:45 UTC #4

Of course we wouldn’t have forest fires if the forest service would just burn the forests to the ground every year. FACT!

LittleRambo1 2017-10-10 16:19:51 UTC #5

I posted this thread before you posted yours. No problem, though.

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind? I think that these fires were deliberately set. If true, were they related to Columbus Day?

E_Normus_Johnson 2017-10-10 16:46:46 UTC #6

I had that same thought, at first. Later, I’ve seen people suggesting that it was a sort of “perfect storm” of circumstances that made it happen. I am watching for more info along these lines.

Wabbit 2017-10-10 00:14:30 UTC #8

You can smell it all the way down here in San Jose. Over 1500 buildings are lost, looks like 10 dead (was 1 this morning)

comeatmebro 2017-10-10 00:35:17 UTC #9

Thoughts and prayers to my ex kin folk in laws.

Billdo 2017-10-10 13:54:35 UTC #10

If you continue to burn up the herbs, we gonna burn down the grape fields…

E_Normus_Johnson 2017-10-11 12:49:37 UTC #11

Wabbit 2017-10-11 15:59:58 UTC #12

rut roh

San Bruno remembers them

comeatmebro 2017-10-11 16:23:33 UTC #13

Why does President Trump refuse to at least air drop some paper towels to these devastated communities?

Wabbit 2017-10-11 16:30:58 UTC #14

Maybe he doesn’t realize CA is part of the US.

Wabbit 2017-10-11 20:40:43 UTC #15

On the air quality scale, 0-50 is ok, 51-100 is moderate, 101-150 is unhealthy for sensitive groups, 151-200 is unhealthy, scale goes to 500. The smoke has it at 91 right now in San Jose where I am, roughly 80 miles away from the fires.

It hit 496 in Napa yesterday at one point.

LotusBud 2017-10-11 21:25:07 UTC #16

This is just so awful. I am surprised given the recent heavy rains up there. I thought they would have been a mitigating factor. But maybe they caused more shrub growth, that then dried out quickly?

Wabbit 2017-10-11 21:26:24 UTC #17

Exactly so.

LotusBud 2017-10-11 21:48:15 UTC #18

If that’s true, they should be sued up the ass. They also caused that explosion that killed people a few years ago.

E_Normus_Johnson 2017-10-11 22:22:08 UTC #19

It is, and they should. But fuck the idea that it’s okay if the government fines them and let’s call it a day. I wanna see their attorneys and the insurance companies’ attorneys duke this out in court.

Wabbit 2017-10-11 23:54:29 UTC #20

Update, San Jose is up to 183. Again, EIGHTY MILES AWAY. My almost-85 FIL stepped outside to run an errand with my wife, and promptly went inside coughing.

comeatmebro 2017-10-12 00:47:46 UTC #21

Neither wind nor rain etc etc etc

(too big to gif)

Epiphany 2017-10-12 01:36:02 UTC #22

Lack of planned fire burns caused this fire.

Ummm…Gov. Brown?