Live updates: Brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as Santa Ana winds blast Southern California - Live video at link

You fucking morons need to learn about the geography of the areas that are actually on fire. Pacific Palisades is on the coast. It literally gets a marine layer normally.

What is happening is that the winds have reversed direction creating dry air. Couple that with a dry winter and you get these conditions. It actually rains a fair amount in Los Angeles in normal years (and a lot in wet years). It’s not a desert and it’s not in any rain shadow.
Yea, certified retard.


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Stop talking out of your ass, its genuinely embarrassing.
 
Talked with family I have there, it seems like most of the windstorms there have stopped, but it was on worse scale than the one 13 years back since this one lasted a whole day of 60-70mph winds. Absolutely unfortunate circumstance for anyone in the surrounding areas. I'm seeing an AQI of like 400, which is absurd.
Looks like an absurd amount of smoke is drifting to AZ

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Edit: looks like AZ is having dust storms rn
 
You fucking morons need to learn about the geography of the areas that are actually on fire. Pacific Palisades is on the coast. It literally gets a marine layer normally.

What is happening is that the winds have reversed direction creating dry air. Couple that with a dry winter and you get these conditions. It actually rains a fair amount in Los Angeles in normal years (and a lot in wet years). It’s not a desert and it’s not in any rain shadow.
The person I was replying to asked a question about California wildfires in general.

Nobody gives a fuck about LA, it should make like the Salton Sea and die of AIDS, and no it doesn’t get a normal amount of rainfall or it wouldn’t need to steal water from the rest of the state, like the part that does agriculture
 
Instead, years ago Californians imported eucalyptus trees to try to use them as rail ties, which they're useless for.

however, they spread like wildfire (lol) and burn really well, and explode when on fire and are full of oil.

and californians bitch and moan if you try to remove them.
This reminds me of the case of the forests we have in north-east italy:
Most of the forest area is actually artificial and monotype red spruce forest.
In 2018, hectares of forest were downed by the Vaia storm, while the rest standing was weakened enough to allow the bark beetle to invade and kill them.
Spruce may not be explosive as eucalyptus, but it's remains light and flammable wood that is commonly used by people as firestarter because of it, those patches of dead trees incredibly dangerous wildfire hazards

Btw, talking about california just reminded me of this clip from futurama,
I guess it's nothing but a reminder of how the place it's gonna look after the fire fades away...
 
quick update if anyone cares. Made it out safe. Wind is FUCKING NUTS.
wanted to give a quick update, thank you so much for all the kind words, want to respond to them all just got alot going on right now. Me and my people are safe for now. just got bad there for a little bit, smoke, no cell service and traffic were the biggest issues. I personally think the news is massively under reporting the sheer extent of the destruction, I saw WHOLE NEIGHBORHOODS completely burned to the ground, not sure could be wrong im probably not thinking the clearest.
 
Newsom coming out to speak. And Biden

Fuck Newsome. I hate all politicians equally except for him. I'd love to personally throw that dickless, smug, out-of-touch rich kid piece of shit into a volcano. I'd say sorry for the a-log but bring on the hats; I wear them with pride in this case. That rail was his pet project and I'm sure he got a ton of kickbacks. Now watch your state burn, shitheel.

Sending love to my more Southern Kiwifriends. Stay safe, guys.
 
wanted to give a quick update, thank you so much for all the kind words, want to respond to them all just got alot going on right now. Me and my people are safe for now. just got bad there for a little bit, smoke, no cell service and traffic were the biggest issues. I personally think the news is massively under reporting the sheer extent of the destruction, I saw WHOLE NEIGHBORHOODS completely burned to the ground, not sure could be wrong im probably not thinking the clearest.
I don't think they're underreporting it, you're just not seeing those reports. There's been reports a few hours ago of thousands of buildings already burned down.
 
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