My niece and her husband are in the Mission Viejo area - but his parents are adjacent to the Eaton fire. Fortunately, still ok, but...
As am I.There's another humongous fire that exploded in size today near Santa Clarita, CA. In a matter of hours, it went from a couple hundred acres to over 8,000 acres according to Watch Duty! You can find out more here: https://app.watchduty.org/
Our worst Santa Ana winds, catastrophic in nature, may come tomorrow. Southern CA. currently is under a red flag warning. The conditions are ripe for fires and for them to spread fast because of wind gusts and very low humidity. We are also under a high wind warning for most of southern CA. beginning tomorrow at 6 AM. (northeast winds 30-40 MPH, with wind gusts 60-75 MPH.) This is expected to last until 6 PM per the NWS.
This newest fire is trending on X. You can also find out more by #HughesFire
https://x.com/i/trending/1882222203812655126
or https://x.com/search?q=#HughesFire live&src=typeahead_click
The last link has the fire exploding to 10,000 acres but this has not been verified.
Praying for everyone's safety!
Trump and MAGA have politicized the fires and have threatened to weaponize Federal assistance to California.
Ocean water is fine if it's a one-off. It becomes a problem when it's used regularly in the same spot. For reference, every ocean-originating tsunami ever.
These poor people. And those fighting the wildfires.
Not me. I think California needs to deal with these things ourselves, and not rely on bureaucrats in Congress who may not be there in our time of need. We have frequent large-scale forest fires that are only growing more deadly, and we have a persistent and serious earthquake risk across most population centers of our state. We need to invest heavily in mitigating these two hazards as much as possible.
Yeah, we're living day to day on pins and needles. Rain might occur this weekend. That would be a blessing, but also a devil in disguise for fire ravaged areas in the way of mudslides. At the same time, it might point to this weird weather cycle ending.
Thank you. Good thoughts and prayers for your niece and her husband, and their extended family.
Climate change - real name, global warming - is indeed a factor.
AGW is real, but more importantly, it's unavoidable now. Our world is too divided to ever accomplish something like the Montreal Protocol now (good thing we discovered the ozone hole in the 1980s rather than today...) so I think we just need to except the reality of runaway global warming. The good news is that we can predict most of the impacts on our state and begin working now to prepare for them, and our state is enough of an economic and industrial powerhouse that we can probably find ways to take care of ourselves.
The pins and needles of anticipation are almost as bad as the real thing.
Praying for everyone out there.
The pins and needles of anticipation are almost as bad as the real thing.
No, I responded to @EdwinWillers' Post #25.
This nightmarish video was from four hours ago. Can you possibly imagine?
The worst of the weather has yet to come. God, please hear our prayers.
This nightmarish video was from four hours ago. Can you possibly imagine?
The worst of the weather has yet to come. God, please hear our prayers.
That must be terrifying.Local news here in Colorado had a camera truck set up above the Marshall fire 3 years ago. I watched the fire literally travel over a mile in a matter of a minute or so under the high winds. I've never seen anything like it.
There's another humongous fire that exploded in size today near Santa Clarita, CA. In a matter of hours, it went from a couple hundred acres to over 8,000 acres according to Watch Duty! You can find out more here: https://app.watchduty.org/
Our worst Santa Ana winds, catastrophic in nature, may come tomorrow. Southern CA. currently is under a red flag warning. The conditions are ripe for fires and for them to spread fast because of wind gusts and very low humidity. We are also under a high wind warning for most of southern CA. beginning tomorrow at 6 AM. (northeast winds 30-40 MPH, with wind gusts 60-75 MPH.) This is expected to last until 6 PM per the NWS.
This newest fire is trending on X. You can also find out more by #HughesFire
https://x.com/i/trending/1882222203812655126
or https://x.com/search?q=#HughesFire live&src=typeahead_click
The last link has the fire exploding to 10,000 acres but this has not been verified.
Praying for everyone's safety!
That was a joke right?
