Firestorm - again - in Southern California

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Happening now in Montecito, ritzy area near Santa Barbara (which is itself rather ritzy). Several dozen homes already destroyed.

It's those winds, those hot and fast Santa Ana winds from the North / Northeast. Currently about 50 miles per hour, higher gusts.

No word yet if there are casualties.
 
Seren_ said:
Is God angry about Prop 8 ?
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If he was I'd imagine it'd be hitting the poor black areas that voted for it, not the rich white areas that probably voted against... of course it might be cause they voted against it.....
 
Los Angeles County now under a State of Emergency.

Firestorm currently progressing in Palos Verdes (near Long Beach).

Another firestorm in Sylmar, most of an entire mobile home park destroyed. Fire hoses melted into the cement from heat of fires. Street signs melted. Apparently more than 600 mobile homes - SIX HUNDRED - destroyed.

Fire in Corona, no containment.

Fire near Yorba Linda.

Fire on both sides of Interstate 5 south of Highway 14, I-5 closed down in that area.
 
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I can smell smoke here in Orange County. I didn't know about the fire in Palos Verdes, so I guess that's where it's coming from.
 
ConspiRaider said:
Los Angeles County now under a State of Emergency.

Firestorm currently progressing in Palos Verdes (near Long Beach).

Another firestorm in Sylmar, most of an entire mobile home park destroyed. Fire hoses melted into the cement from heat of fires. Street signs melted. Apparently more than 600 mobile homes - SIX HUNDRED - destroyed.
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Are you okay? Is this anywhere near you, or are you safe?
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I can smell smoke here in Orange County. I didn't know about the fire in Palos Verdes, so I guess that's where it's coming from.
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I guess they're saying fire near Fullerton / Yorba Linda, being fanned by the winds, burning scrub at this time, but moving.
 
JimBenArm said:
Are you okay? Is this anywhere near you, or are you safe?
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In surrounding areas, Cap'n. I live in a very densely populated area of Los Angeles (west of the city) and quite frankly, not so much to burn. Concrete and stucco up the kazoo.

Had a power failure in the middle of the night, there are sporadic power failures around, causing havoc on the freeways and surface streets. We all live on these ribbons of pavement for too much of our lives.

They just did the live fire chief report on the Sylmar fire, where more than 600 mobile homes are just gone.
 
Oak Ridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar is now, reportedly, considered a crime scene. Could be looking at a deliberately set fire. They just listed the streets where all mobile homes thereon, are gone. More than a dozen devastated streets, as if a blockbuster bomb went off.

Yorba Linda (birthplace of Richard Nixon) now getting the leading edge of a fire, a few homes in flames already.

A dozen homes now in flames in Yorba Linda.
 
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I'm about 30 miles to the southwest of the Yorba Linda fire and we can see the smoke plume from our house.

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Scary, Lisa. The fire has now jumped the 57 freeway, apparently the 91 freeway as well, heading towards Anaheim Hills.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I'm more worried about hcmom, she lives way closer to the fires than I do.
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Yep Lisa, hope she's safe and all other SoCal JREFers. The evacuations seem to be working well so far.

Fires moving deeper into Anaheim Hills, into Anaheim (home of Disneyland) a bit.

It was 92 degrees in downtown Los Angeles today. That, plus the fact that we haven't had any more than 2 or 3 days of decent rain in the last 6 months or so, and things are almost exploding into flame.

Sunset is about 45 minutes away, and that means the winds will INCREASE. As if we need that.
 
I hope no-one gets hurt.

[aside]Which idiot thought importing Eucalypts over there would be a good idea?[/aside]
 
Damien Evans said:
I hope no-one gets hurt.

[aside]Which idiot thought importing Eucalypts over there would be a good idea?[/aside]
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I don't know who did it but Eucalyptus trees have become a huge invasive nuisance here in California. They love the climate and when they burn.......boy do they burn.
 
What has caused it this time?
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A number of different causes:

A: Most of California is pretty rainless between May and December. It's a "Meditterean" climate. This makes the vegatation nice and dry come the fall. This, btw, is not Global warming related. California has always has this kind of rainless summer climate.
B. The Santa Ana Winds.
C.That more and more people are building houses in areas where it is not a good idea to build houses because they are guarenteed to burn.
D. The last couple of years have been really,really,dry..drier then usual. THis makes the
usually dry conditions in the fall even worse then usual.
Maybe Global Warming. The jury is still out on whether climate change is having an impact on this, or whether is is just a normal, non global warming related, dry cycle.
 
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Damien Evans said:
I hope no-one gets hurt.

[aside]Which idiot thought importing Eucalypts over there would be a good idea?[/aside]
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Back in the late 1800's, people thought they would make great windbreaks because they grow so fast. It seems like a good idea of the time, and people did not relise that Eucalyptus trees, when it comes to reproducing, are the Rabbits of the tree world: There is no such thing as one.
 
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