Off Topic Forest Fires Thread

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Here is a photo from the news when the fire started. I still think they have basically put it out. There is still a little smoke but nothing major.

By the way its ****ing April, fire season isnt even supposed to start for 2 months. This fire year is really going to suck.

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ellewoods said:
Here is a photo from the news when the fire started. I still think they have basically put it out. There is still a little smoke but nothing major.

By the way its ****ing April, fire season isnt even supposed to start for 2 months. This fire year is really going to suck.

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Build a moat.

You could then charge your neighbours for shelter and storage.
 
Local news said it was some idiot off roading again just like the one last year. They contained it to 10 acres. a lot smaller than the 4,300 acres that the last one on my road burned.
 
ellewoods said:
Here is a photo from the news when the fire started. I still think they have basically put it out. There is still a little smoke but nothing major.

By the way its ****ing April, fire season isnt even supposed to start for 2 months. This fire year is really going to suck.

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It's time you considered moving to Alcatraz Island ellewoods. Your chickens should be safe from predators, but getting the eggs to market might be tricky !
On second thoughts, you'd only be replacing forest fires with the threat of earthquakes. Ignore that idea.
Hope you're not impacted like last time.
 
I guess the drought in California shows no signs of abating? I think folk there - particularly farmers - are having a horrendous time there.

But I know the solution! Start a cricket league. The mearest mention of the word "cricket" causes it to rain around here.
 
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What would happen if California really ran out of water? The population is 40 million. They couldn't all doss down on people's sofas in other states.
 
Problem is as well, as we all know, when it does rain, the ground won't soak it up like a sponge, it'll cause mass flooding.

Elle, ffs, move!
 
Oregon Tiger said:
I guess the drought in California shows no signs of abating? I think folk there - particularly farmers - are having a horrendous time there.

But I know the solution! Start a cricket league. The mearest mention of the word "cricket" causes it to rain around here.
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We were at about 50% of the rain this year but only 6% of the snow pack. The snow pack replenishes the reservoirs and gives the farmers their irrigation water. There wont be hardly any water left in the reservoirs after this year. They have said that we are down to 12 months of water left in Cali. They say on the news that is is the worst drought in at least a 1,000 years. The 1977 drought which a few people on here can probably remember was a cake walk compared to this. Unfortunatly all the climate models show that this and worse than this is will become the norm for cali.

I am at about 2,500 feet and in a normal year it should snow a few times here. In the last 2 years we have had 0 snow storms and it has only gotten below freezing once this year and it has only rained 4 times in the last 12 months. The pine trees and such are beginning to die off so if the drought doesnt break in the next year California is not only going to burn like nothing before the entire ecosystem will begin to change dramatically.
 
ElTigre-HCAFC said:
What would happen if California really ran out of water? The population is 40 million. They couldn't all doss down on people's sofas in other states.
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Cali has water really, the issue is that 80% of available water is diverted for giant agro-businesses. There are right now giant rice paddies next to Sacramento in the valley, not to mention all the water used for Almonds, Walnuts etc. In a normal rain year its no big deal that they get so much as there is plenty for all, now though you see that perhaps california isnt Vietnam and probably shouldnt have rice paddies in a place that even in a good year only rains 5 months of the year.
 
I got my first batch of goats these 3 are all females. I am getting a baby male one next weekend. In case you are wondering they are Nigerian Dwarf Goats so they only get a little taller than knee high.

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I'm guessing you don't plan to eat them so what? Milk, cheese... or are they pets!
 
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