nonono i want a easy digestible answer with some one i can blame that is not aligning with my political ideas. I need a scape goat dammit.
Yeah the climate is changing and this the new norm. More extreme weather and is there not massive overuse of aquifers in a lot of those places or am i mistaken?
In the Eastern half of these states yes. It's high desert in some areas, others are Doug fir pine tree, big old forests that like fire and have to be burned every few years to keep an uncontrolled fire from taking too much at once. The water reserves there are definitely overused and sometimes there's drought.
The issue is that for the last couple years the western half is burning.
There's a ridge of the Cascades range that keeps the coastal areas rain-soaked 9 or 10 months a year. Those areas aren't usually in any fire danger, they're literally rain forests. The rain shadow divides the climate of the region into that grey, misty and damp fern-and-moss old growth you see in photos online, and the rest of the place.
The rest of the place always burns. The rain shadow doesn't usually. It's really not normal at all, which is part of the reason people are looking for humans to blame for it. But really, there's always idiots and arsonists, it just doesn't turn into a huge forest fire like this in that rain shadow region, it's just too damp for it to spread.
Climate change, changes in trade winds, combined have dried out the coast and now it's burning. It's fucked up. You'd have to be there to understand; you can't collect old downed wood to light on fire there. Everything is always soaked. Mushrooms come up in hours. It's been getting drier every year and within the past 5 or 6 years it's reached a tipping point so now, when idiots fuck around, it actually burns.
Nothing political about it, just a shit situation.
Do tweakers, hobos, and other scum usually negligently burn all three West Coast states at the same time, conveniently timed around a Presidential election?
California has giant fires every fucking year. Oregon, Washington, only in the dry eastern half of the states. So yes. (the Eastern half of the Pacific NW region is red, the rain shadow is blue.)
It's not "every election year", it's "every single year".
