|
Oregon, California, and Washington are all having horrific wildfires that are still spreading. I don't think it's ever been this bad. On top of widespread respiratory disease and millions of broke people we now have wholesale destruction and smoke everywhere. Extremely strong winds are making the situation worse and knocking out power in places where the fires haven't reached. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/the-west-coast-wildfire-season-is-getting-worse.html The capital of Oregon looks like a Doom WAD currently:  Here is your morning forecast:  Edit: More pics  Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, CA https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1303848038587338756?s=20  Enchanted Forest - Turner, OR strange feelings re Daisy fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Sep 10, 2020 |
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 09:36
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 02:05 |
|
|
strange feelings re Daisy posted:The capital of Oregon looks like a Doom WAD currently:
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 09:45
|
|
|
Fires suck. How badly underfunded and under prepared are your fireys? I remember reading you use prison labour?
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 09:58
|
|
|
I was reading that some of the fires were started by a bunch of poo poo sippers lighting off fireworks for a gender reveal party. Please be mad at that lame rear end family.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 10:51
|
|
|
kntfkr posted:I was reading that some of the fires were started by a bunch of poo poo sippers lighting off fireworks for a gender reveal party. Please be mad at that lame rear end family. Maybe that happened. It's certainly possible, however: We just finished an inquiry into the bushfires that ravaged eastern Australia last year that found that almost all of them (and all of the major ones) were started naturally. There was a targeted and deliberate campaign by the conservatives and related vested interests to paint them as arson (especially as eco-terrorism carried out by environmentalists to give credence to their cause). Western America is burning because it's dry and it's hot. It's dry and it's hot because of climate change.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 10:58
|
|
|
strange feelings re Daisy posted:Here is your morning forecast: That’s a lot of quests!
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 11:02
|
|
|
Will these states ever run out of underbrush and generally flammable poo poo that causes these fires, or do they pretty much grow back after a rain resulting in a never ending cycle of rebirth and immolation?
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 11:12
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 11:14
|
|
|
Funky See Funky Do posted:Fires suck. How badly underfunded and under prepared are your fireys? I remember reading you use prison labour? Get this, in California the prison system is so psychotically negligent that there is a fire fighter labor shortage due to rampant COVID
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 11:24
|
|
|
bromplicated posted:Will these states ever run out of underbrush and generally flammable poo poo that causes these fires, or do they pretty much grow back after a rain resulting in a never ending cycle of rebirth and immolation? It grows back for every day it isn't frozen and gets full brush size in a month.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 11:28
|
|
|
Don't you wanna know how we keep startin' fires? "Fire started by gender reveal party" Oh no... We burnt our country down last year so no giant fires for us  .
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 11:47
|
|
|
Mr. Lobe posted:Get this, in California the prison system is so psychotically negligent that there is a fire fighter labor shortage due to rampant COVID L-lol?
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 12:25
|
|
|
Has anyone posted Disco Inferno yet? How about Ring of Fire?
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 12:42
|
|
|
Funky See Funky Do posted:Fires suck. How badly underfunded and under prepared are your fireys? I remember reading you use prison labour? While 100% true that a lot of California wildfire firefighters are prison labor and that's inherently hosed up no matter what, I feel obligated to point out that it's exclusively volunteer and extremely difficult to become a part of mainly due to the fact that once you're in, you're very likely(but not guaranteed) to live in dorms off-prison-site and not...well, on prison site so everyone wants in. Very recently, far too late but better late than never, laws finally changed to allow them to continue their careers as firefighters after being released from prison. Aside from the "Once you get out of prison, you can't be a firefighter. lol??" part, which no longer applies, I'd heard nothing but good things from everyone involved. It sounds hosed up but it's a pretty good program. Vincent Valentine fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Sep 9, 2020 |
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 12:56
|
|
|
strange feelings re Daisy posted:Oregon, California, and Washington are all having horrific wildfires that are still spreading. I don't think it's ever been this bad. On top of widespread respiratory disease and millions of broke people we now have wholesale destruction and smoke everywhere. Extremely strong winds are making the situation worse and knocking out power in places where the fires haven't reached.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 13:07
|
|
|
I can’t even remotely bring myself to care If you’re stupid country burns down (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 13:14
|
|
|
Noblesse Obliged posted:I can’t even remotely bring myself to care If you’re stupid country burns down Dang maybe we shouldn’t have done all that bad stuff that everyone else hates for the last few centuries.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 13:40
|
|
|
Bob Socko posted:Slightly south of Oregon’s capital is Enchanted Forest, which is the mom-and-pop shop equivalent of Disneyland (but just fine if you’re a little kid). They posted this to their Facebook. They’re also located on a forested hillside, so who knows if they’ll even be around in a few days. I've never been but I hope it stays it looks great.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 13:46
|
|
|
Vincent Valentine posted:While 100% true that a lot of California wildfire firefighters are prison labor and that's inherently hosed up no matter what, I feel obligated to point out that it's exclusively volunteer and extremely difficult to become a part of mainly due to the fact that once you're in, you're very likely(but not guaranteed) to live in dorms off-prison-site and not...well, on prison site so everyone wants in. Very recently, far too late but better late than never, laws finally changed to allow them to continue their careers as firefighters after being released from prison. Aside from the "Once you get out of prison, you can't be a firefighter. lol??" part, which no longer applies, I'd heard nothing but good things from everyone involved. oh man thats weird its almost as if people are given opportunities to be constructive and contribute to society they trnd to be pretty happy with it
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 13:46
|
|
|
Vincent Valentine posted:While 100% true that a lot of California wildfire firefighters are prison labor and that's inherently hosed up no matter what, I feel obligated to point out that it's exclusively volunteer and extremely difficult to become a part of mainly due to the fact that once you're in, you're very likely(but not guaranteed) to live in dorms off-prison-site and not...well, on prison site so everyone wants in. Very recently, far too late but better late than never, laws finally changed to allow them to continue their careers as firefighters after being released from prison. Aside from the "Once you get out of prison, you can't be a firefighter. lol??" part, which no longer applies, I'd heard nothing but good things from everyone involved. Look we rely on a practice that straddles the line of slave labour to protect ourselves from natural disasters but hear me out, recently we changed the law so those people are no longer locked out of the same job once they're released from prison. Pretty good compared to what?
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 13:56
|
|
|
getting tortured by ISIS
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 13:57
|
|
|
The USA looking more and more like the Crisis on Infinite Earths every single day.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:02
|
|
|
It was actually kinda cool yesterday because of the hellscape sky blotting out the sun. May today bring more ash and smoke so I may save a few bucks on AC electricity.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:27
|
|
|
We should take the fire and move it out into the ocean.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:33
|
|
|
honestly who gives a poo poo? it does it every loving year. let it loving burn what's it gonna do? what difference does it make? Oh poo poo we built our house with no basement out of plywood on top of pinestraw in an area known to start itself on fire and now the house is on fire again wow stunning
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:46
|
|
|
12 million acres on fire and the evening news shows a dude with a hose and a helicopter with a water bucket and asks for prayers. I'm sure the billions being spent on that dude and the helicopter is helping the same thing that happens every loving year
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:48
|
|
|
If you watch the show Fire Chasers on Netflix they show a group of female prisoners going thru fire camp and training and eventually getting on the fire lines.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:52
|
|
|
i read that "prehistoric" california also burned a gently caress ton
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:58
|
|
|
Capisano posted:If you watch the show Fire Chasers on Netflix they show a group of female prisoners going thru fire camp and training and eventually getting on the fire lines. Cool, monetizing literal slave labor for entertainment purposes what a wonderful concept
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 14:59
|
|
|
Big Beef City posted:honestly who gives a poo poo? It's not summer in California until the first wildfire happens.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 15:01
|
|
|
Honestly much of the west is naturally designed to burn. Lightning did (and still does) cause this all the time, and a lot of plants and trees depend on regular fires to reproduce. Humans doing their best to put fires out all the time because houses are in the way is really making things worse. No matter what you do it will eventually catch, and when it does you end up with these huge mega fires where decades of poo poo that should have burned gradually goes up all at once.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 15:08
|
|
|
Funky See Funky Do posted:Fires suck. How badly underfunded and under prepared are your fireys? I remember reading you use prison labour? I absolutely refuse to believe any culture on earth calls them "fireys"
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 15:09
|
|
|
TheAardvark posted:I absolutely refuse to believe any culture on earth calls them "fireys" Dost thou wishest to sucketh myne baylls syre??
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 15:14
|
|
|
When isn't California on fire 
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 16:17
|
|
|
This is fine.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 16:19
|
|
|
When you have maybe one forest ranger per 10000000 square miles and rely on loggers to clean up brush out of the goodness of their hearts you end up with America.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 16:19
|
|
|
Derpies posted:When you have maybe one forest ranger per 10000000 square miles and rely on loggers to clean up brush out of the goodness of their hearts you end up with America. What you're saying is we should press more penal battalions into fire service.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 16:20
|
|
|
Also important to note Utah's on fire from our annual "idiots shooting exploding targets in the brushland" escapades.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 16:20
|
|
|
Chomp8645 posted:What you're saying is we should press more penal battalions into fire service. It worked for the Soviets in WW2, so sorry that's communist and a non starter.
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 16:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 02:05 |
|
|
Good news is maybe we won't get anymore tainted produce for a while
|
|
#
?
Sep 9, 2020 16:21
|
|