CA Wildfires

No, the entrance to the San Francisco Bay was called the "Golden Gate" two years before the gold discovery at Sutter's Mill. The state was probably named for its autumn colors, not the gold.

The hillsides around here are a nice light golden-brown color, with a bit of fresh green from a light rain we had a couple of weeks ago, a hint of the winter storms to come. It's prime fire season.

John

It did.

Note the terms HAD and DID and the tense they impart.

Richard Henry snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

I have no direct knowledge of the funding. But at least one person got on TV for being burned out both times.

John Larkin snipped-for-privacy@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

Speaking for yourself? Or just of your neighbors?

All of us, of course.

John

SNIPPAGE!

Arsonists? Their uniforms should be soaked in gasoline to make them REALLY want to put out the fire, instead of start another fire.

Well, one problem is the way insurance companies work. You have a replacement insurance policy. Your house burns down. The insurance company will INSIST that you build an exact duplicate of your house, as that is what they insured. Sure, there may be some exceptions if needed to bring up to code (and there were MAJOR changes to 'code' in San Diego after the last fire. I know, I was trying to build a house there!) but if it isn't REQUIRED, then you can't make changes and still collect on teh insurance...

Charlie

This would then be the ideal time to do prevention burns to remove the undergrowth.

The prevailing wind is off the Pacific, cool and

I have fought fires that run across a mile of paddock (field) in minutes, with a strong northerly wind.(Our hot winds run from the inland desert regions, well at least in the State of Victoria) A firebreak gives you some chance of stopping the fire on the ground as only the hottest spots can cross it and so the exponential growth of the firefront is slowed. In a really hot fire the bitumen can burn.

The fires are

Ya gotta love a gumtree. They give off all sorts of volatiles in hot weather. Eucalyptus are spread by heating the seeds that are laying about in the ground litter. After the fire and then the rain being an optimum time to germinate when the big trees have been burnt out.

Andrew

Charlie, The insurance restrictions are like that only in Californica. My "replacement" policy doesn't restrict you to "exact".

...Jim Thompson

Sarason wrote in news:4725ffc3 snipped-for-privacy@news.chariot.net.au:

But the environuts will not permit it. CA is full of environuts.

Sorry, John, but the history of the state was something that I specialized in a few years ago when I had to. You are correct, the Golden Gate was named such a few years before Sutter's Mill, but the state itself was admitted to the Union two years AFTER the discovery and took the name from the mineral that made it famous.

Indeed California itself was named after a mythical city in the novel Califia whose streets were paved with gold bricks.

Jim

Well, I did say "probably", probably because I read that somewhere.

John