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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1407)11/18/2018 8:28:53 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 13801
 
To let you in on the joke, there's no forests where these drought-driven California fires have started.

What drives these fires has been a near total absence of moisture for many years, coupled with wind speeds in excess of 60 miles an hour. It matters little if the fuel for the fire is homes and businesses or scrub grass.

Some malfunction in Trump's brain caused him to begin saying moronic things about raking pine forests - there's no connection between words he says and anything happening in the real world. Even after Trump arrived in California he inexplicably promised California's new Governor he's have the Federal forests in California "raked". Trump is simply a bizarre freak.
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You've likely seen the area which burned in the Santa Monica mountains and part of Malibu because it's where they filmed MASH. The fire continued near the MASH set and through another location miles away, the Paramount Ranch, where it destroyed the Western town set where they filmed HBO's WestWorld.

If you've watched WestWorld, as with the MASH set, you likely recall it's empty dry hills with occasional scattered oak trees - typical California as seen below.

Once the scrub burns, the hills becomes a slide and flood danger during rains until the scrub is regenerated.



This is a before and after in the Woolsey fire. Clearly someone forgot to rake the boats.



The Camp fire in northern California, likely started by PG&E electrical equipment, also began in a rural scrub region on the edge of the city of Chico (the area of this photo labeled "Burn Scar"). The fire moving at 60 miles per hour, coupled with a single exit road, gave the residents of the small town of Paradise little warning and little chance to escape.

After burning for miles it eventually reached forest land, as you can see in the photos below.



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