Re: Has anyone heard from BTR1701 today?

On 2025-01-09 1:20 PM, suzeeq wrote:

On 1/9/2025 9:54 AM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-01-09 11:48 AM, shawn wrote:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 10:45:23 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
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On 2025-01-09 4:49 AM, shawn wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:59:01 GMT, Ed Stasiak
<user1263@newsgrouper.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
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Rhino
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Given the fires that are all over LA and the fact that he hasn't posted,
it would be nice to now that he and his pets are somewhere safe.

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Heard that the power was out in large parts of LA, both from the fires
damaging lines and the power company turning off lines to prevent
them from sparking fires.
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Though I'd expect him to have a generator (unless Kalifornia finally
got around to banning them...).

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Having a generator at your home won't help if the cable/telephone
companies equipment has been destroyed by the fires. It's so sad to
see how spread out the fires are so they are impacting a huge number
of people. Saw a sad video from CNN with James Woods who lost his home
in the fires and had a 90 something neighbor who wasn't mentally all
there who almost died in the fires. (Apparently left behind but with
the intent to come back for him, but the fire took out the house about
an hour after they did remove him so it could have gone so much
worse.)
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I saw that too. I think Woods was still in shock. What a frightening
experience for all concerned! He's a good man for having checked with
the son to determine the neighbour was at the house instead of just
assuming that the old guy was safe in the hospital.
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Looking at different videos it seems too many people didn't realize
how quickly the fires could spread. Which I get as even I would expect
the fires to spread slowly but with those winds of up to 80 MPH the
fires can spread so much faster than one would expect.
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I hope they gather the smartest people available and try to figure out
some ways to prevent recurrences of this kind of problem, whether that
includes creating more fire breaks around communities, trimming back
undergrowth, increasing the moisture on the plants and trees so they're
not so flammable, etc. etc.

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They don't need to gather anyone together as I think they've known
what needs to be done for years. Cut back all the growth and the fires
won't spread, but that takes a lot of money and time. Where they can't
cut it back they need to kill it off but that has it's own problems.
(Plant growth helps limit mud slides.)

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Then they need to get off their asses and do what needs doing. It's that simple. If this fire isn't enough to motivate the necessary political will then I don't know what it will take.
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I saw James Woods interviewed again today and he said there was no water in the water mains, severely limiting what the fire department could do. He understood that the reservoirs were too low but I saw a comment that the reservoirs were full so I don't know who was right. In any case, someone needs to be held to account for the water mains being empty. Lawsuits and or criminal charges - and convictions - may motivate the necessary action to clean up the forests if basic human decency and common sense don't do the trick.

 It's hard to hold mother nature accountable for not maintaining water in reservoirs. If it's a dry year, there's no watcer to fill them.

True enough. The way put it, Woods seemed to imply that the amount of water in the reservoirs was somehow within someone's control and they had not done their job. If I recall correctly, BTR has said that California routinely dumps millions of gallons from the reservoirs to run to the sea protect an endangered species (or something like that anyway). Or maybe it is used mostly for irrigation in the Central Valley. Or some of both. Perhaps those uses could be revisited to see if they can be reduced?

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And let's tap the minds of the cleverest people to do what we can to preserve those rare species of plants and animals too. I can't help but think they could set up greenhouses or other structures that preserve the species even if their natural habitats have to be cut back. I don't think this has to be a stark decision between doing everything to preserve human life and property vs. preserving species. In my opinion, we're smart enough as a species to do both.
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Hoping all is well with BTR.

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Amen!

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Rhino