2 thoughts on “Hmmm … LA or Phoenix to Get Tropical Storm?”

1. Uncle al September 1, 2009 at 8:56 am

   California is Enviro-whiner and social activist. National forests lack fires, logging, and “engineering maintenance.” 50 years of resinous brush accumulation is piled 20-30 feet high across tens of thousands of square miles. That is burning right now. It burns so hot trees explode from internal steam pressure and fire tornadoes 100 feet high corkscrew into the sky sucking air into the firestorm.

   Rain would ruin the object lesson. California must be massively penalized for uncontrolled carbon emissions. Add a special tax to every utility bill.

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2. Gaussling's Weird Friend Les September 1, 2009 at 3:34 pm

   Ouch that’s harsh… the two big fires here (in the 8th largest economy in the world) are the Station fire in the Los Angeles National Forest and the Big Meadow fire in Yosemite National Park.

   While these fires technically fall under the domain of the National Forest Service, it’s up to Cal Forestry Department (CDF) to do the dirty work which they can’t do in a rational way because of 100 years of outdated National fire management rules, our whack-job tree-nuts be damned.

   There are thousands of square miles of federal land here that are off limits to cleanup. Big lumber wants to clear cut but given the sandy soil and torrential rains we get occasionally that doesn’t work. Nobody wants to pay to do it the right way… acres at a time, clearing the brush and nobody wants to pay to remove the eucalyptus trees (an invasive species from Australia) that are loaded with terepens (I used a chemical word!) and are responsible for the most massive burns.

   Maybe a little socialist money oughta flow towards better fire prevention so we don’t coat you all in carbon black 🙂

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