SoCal Woolsey Fire

Hot catalytic converters lighting grass on fire, hikers smoking pot lighting grass on fire, people throwing cigarettes outside the window, lightning rarely, arson for sure. Usually when one fire breaks out, an arsonist will start another somewhere else (news outlets are asked to keep mum to not give copycats any ideas). It would not be campfires near these hills (closed after dark), but definitely campfires at other spots.

This fire started near Bell Canyon, a super nice neighborhood secluded deep around the hiking trails / hills between my place and Simi. I suspect typical human cause.

With dry conditions and wind like this, very easy for fires to spread. The fires jumped over 8 lanes of highway 101. Heading towards Malibu along the ocean. A playground kind of isolated from other neighborhoods, Grape Arbor Park, is totally destroyed. My kids were bummed. They remember riding the bouncy horses, now on fire, like how they would be in a twisted Tim Burton movie.

 

Too many people buying electric cars. The energy costs and pollution from materials mining for and production of batteries is contributing to climate change. Sierra Club closing down the nuclear plant just north of San Diego didn't help either.

We can do solar, but solar to gas is like an AAA battery to dilithium powered matter anti-matter reactor. No one wants the face the truth that we are simply massive consumers of energy and that green tech only really works for super rich people. Thanos had the right idea.

 

Indeed one of the reasons electric cars make little sense to me in terms of pollution. They miss the forrest from the trees. Car emissions problem solved, at the expense of a likely much worse problem in terms of large toxic batteries disposal. It's stupid.

(Yeah I like Teslas iPad deal, but I'm not getting one).

Same actually apply to solar. Not only are solar cells low yield. They have a lifespan, after which they are toxic garbage.

Efficient means of transportation is IMO a great option. But everybody in SoCal seems allergic to public transportation, which in turn is shit.

Yup. My front neighbor lost his San Onofre nuclar plant job (ex-Navy aircraft carrier nuclar plant specialist) when this happened. He moved to the east coast. So I guess is back to nice green coal for us, or whatever other random bullshit.

 

Why do these things happen more often? It's not climate change, as the kids' school GATE programs are trying to cram down their throats under the guise of "inquisitive" learning.

It's because more and more people are encroaching into areas less suitable for habitation. Areas historically hit by floods, tsunamis, and fires.

As I mentioned, I checked the fire maps before we moved in. Our street was at some risk (the street had already survived mulitple fires since the late 50s), but surrounded by higher risk areas. This appears to be what is happening now. The houses in the neighborhood that caught on fire have been in the high risk areas. The civil engineers doing the mapping knew what they were doing.

Many of the newer buildings, the apartments, the luxury homes inside the gated communities, were built in high risk fire areas against the hills. You know, the ones overgrown with dead grass.

This is why this shit happens "more" often. More and more humans living in areas which had historically burned into a crisp. No one likes to talk about this more simple inconvenient truth. Blaming "climate change" is much more convenient.