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tangerinegreen555

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Totally normal around there when fire comes through. Most of the big trees survive just charred. More telephone poles get wasted than the big trees.
Instead of building a stupid wall on the border, maybe they should start building fire walls in Cali.

They used to have killer floods here so they built a dam system in the '30's and '40's. Put people to work in the depression.

They can build hurricane resistant and earthquake resistant. Going to have to get the engineers on fire spreading suppression and fire resistant.

Surely we can still solve problems in this country.
 

420God

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Instead of building a stupid wall on the border, maybe they should start building fire walls in Cali.

They used to have killer floods here so they built a dam system in the '30's and '40's. Put people to work in the depression.

They can build hurricane resistant and earthquake resistant. Going to have to get the engineers on fire spreading suppression and fire resistant.

Surely we can still solve problems in this country.
During our dry seasons the DNR sit in watch towers spread throughout the Northwoods. Found that out when we had a brush fire get out of control. They showed up with a trencher in 15min, luckily we put it out by the time they got here.
 

neosapien

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I found something I once thought long lost. At the last minute I decided to use my wife's old suitcase instead of my new suitcase as it's just too big and I don't need near as much stuff for Florida as I do China. So I'm unpacking and repacking and low and behold, what's in an inner zippered pocket of the wife's old suitcase…!?!?!"?

Creepy baby Jesus.


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Aeroknow

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I found something I once thought long lost. At the last minute I decided to use my wife's old suitcase instead of my new suitcase as it's just too big and I don't need near as much stuff for Florida as I do China. So I'm unpacking and repacking and low and behold, what's in an inner zippered pocket of the wife's old suitcase…!?!?!"?

Creepy baby Jesus.


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cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I found something I once thought long lost. At the last minute I decided to use my wife's old suitcase instead of my new suitcase as it's just too big and I don't need near as much stuff for Florida as I do China. So I'm unpacking and repacking and low and behold, what's in an inner zippered pocket of the wife's old suitcase…!?!?!"?

Creepy baby Jesus.


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Larval sock puppet. You're infected. Get help.
 

neosapien

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Larval sock puppet. You're infected. Get help.
She brought the subject up again a week back or so.
She was like "Eva and Ellen said he's real".
"Oh ok, that's nice".
"I told them my mommy and daddy said he's not, so I don't think he is."
"That's great. Hope you never want to go to Eva and Ellen's cuz their parents are never going to invite the devil worshipper's daughter now!"

Lol.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Instead of building a stupid wall on the border, maybe they should start building fire walls in Cali.

They used to have killer floods here so they built a dam system in the '30's and '40's. Put people to work in the depression.

They can build hurricane resistant and earthquake resistant. Going to have to get the engineers on fire spreading suppression and fire resistant.

Surely we can still solve problems in this country.
fire breaks are easily incorporated into landscaping, as well as stretches of smaller plants between masses of trees......of course, if the wind picks up and starts blowing burning material around, it becomes much more difficult to control. and if it hits closely packed building, they all have to be fire resistant, or the one or two that aren't are just going to be kindling for the ones that are...fire resistant isn't fire proof. it can give emergency responders time to get things under control, though.
controlled burns can help, but you have to be very careful, or else you've just started the next cycle of fires....
 

tangerinegreen555

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fire breaks are easily incorporated into landscaping, as well as stretches of smaller plants between masses of trees......of course, if the wind picks up and starts blowing burning material around, it becomes much more difficult to control. and if it hits closely packed building, they all have to be fire resistant, or the one or two that aren't are just going to be kindling for the ones that are...fire resistant isn't fire proof. it can give emergency responders time to get things under control, though.
controlled burns can help, but you have to be very careful, or else you've just started the next cycle of fires....
They put a man on the moon in 1969 without windows computers.

I'd like to think we've evolved forward 50 years, at least enough to deal with future wild fires and future construction in those areas.
 
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