#4447855 - 11/10/18 04:14 AM
Re: California fires
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Wonder how they were started ?
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#4448003 - 11/11/18 12:15 AM
Re: California fires
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/stunning-nasa-photos-show-california-033732721.htmlCalifornia is over 163,000 square miles. That smoke, in totality, is covering nearly that much area (fortunately mostly over the ocean though). I've seen denser, thicker smoke in the sky around here before, but never this thick and heavy at ground level. It's Saturday afternoon and the streets are nearly deserted compared to normal.
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#4448277 - 11/12/18 02:56 PM
Re: California fires
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"6,700 structures destroyed, most are homes"
I get the feeling the population of Austin, TX will get another boost in the coming years
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#4448294 - 11/12/18 04:19 PM
Re: California fires
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"6,700 structures destroyed, most are homes"
I get the feeling the population of Austin, TX will get another boost in the coming years The population of Texas has grown by 4.4 million since 2008. I’m sure a large percentage of that number consists of people who relocated from California to Texas.
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#4448302 - 11/12/18 05:46 PM
Re: California fires
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Just read about a guy who went back to his place in Paradise - completely leveled except for some plumbing and his gun safe, which was peppered with holes because the heat was so intense the guns inside went off.
That the heat was intense enough to set off guns isn't surprising, but for the bullets to penetrate a SAFE? That metal had to be glowing... Shouldn't that be ammunition?
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4448306 - 11/12/18 06:04 PM
Re: California fires
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Just read about a guy who went back to his place in Paradise - completely leveled except for some plumbing and his gun safe, which was peppered with holes because the heat was so intense the guns inside went off.
That the heat was intense enough to set off guns isn't surprising, but for the bullets to penetrate a SAFE? That metal had to be glowing... Shouldn't that be ammunition? I was wondering about that too - wouldn't ammo just explode? I know jack about guns but I'd think a bullet would have to be "shot" through a gun to penetrate even red hot steel... So I just figured there must have been loaded guns inside the safe....
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#4448307 - 11/12/18 06:12 PM
Re: California fires
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Yes the ammo would just explode. A loaded gun would have the ammo cook off just like if the trigger was pulled.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4448421 - 11/13/18 07:39 AM
Re: California fires
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at some point people in that region will learn to build 100% non combustible at least with the exterior. I decided as a child just from certain fairy tales that if I ever buy a house it'll be made of brick, stone, cement, whatever, and screw appearances. No matter where it sits. I'll rent wood. Not buying it.
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#4448457 - 11/13/18 02:58 PM
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November is supposed to be the rainy season in California but people are asking what happened to it - maybe those rainy seasons are ending.
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#4448458 - 11/13/18 03:14 PM
Re: California fires
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November is supposed to be the rainy season in California but people are asking what happened to it - maybe those rainy seasons are ending. Those rainy seasons in November migrated to Florida! I know!
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#4448460 - 11/13/18 03:18 PM
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If and when the Cali rainy season starts more devastation will occur as there is no vegetation to hold the land in place.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4448486 - 11/13/18 05:20 PM
Re: California fires
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If and when the Cali rainy season starts more devastation will occur as there is no vegetation to hold the land in place. In Juan's 2nd video in the series I posted above he was saying that exact thing, the ground is so dry the water just runs off it and doesn't soak in, he was demonstrating that from about 2 days before and not too far from where the fire started. He lives about 40 miles south of where the fire is, and was saying he has his bug-out plan in place just in case.
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Exodus
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