Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "California fires: more than 1.4 million hectares burned - BBC News" video.

  1. Yeah, check it out, 50 YEARS AGO, it happened https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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  2. No, at least not hire in Southern California. are grassess are not the same as Australia, and we have great deserts to the east with nothing to burn. These will burn out and stop, we protect structures here, not grass and brush.
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  3. They are the worst, but there are 40 million people in California, few are directly affected, the fires in Southern California are grass and brush, run far and fast over unpopulated areas, then grow back quickly. I was in another large California inferno 50 years ago, read about it. BBC likes to exaggerate https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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  4. What caused the same fires 50 years ago in California, I lived through them and fine. Read about it https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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  5. We love Trump, coal is good, has nothing to do with fires, savvy? Trump 2020
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  6. Sounds crazy, put understand the topography of Southern California is grass, light brush and chaparral, the fires run fast and far, but over unpopulated areas, the grass comes back in a year or two, and the brush soon after that, it's a regular cycle. I lived through the 1970 fire season in California when the population was half what it is now, 50 years ago, and we burned 580,000 acres, or 234,717 hectares, and this was before the power lines were put up in Northern California that have been starting so many fires they shut power down in those areas during high winds. California has not cleaned up the debris, we have a large population increase building in fire plains without pragmatic permitting or retrofitting, so it is not unreasonable we've seen that much acreage go up. California has 40 million people, few are directly affected by the fires. Check out the 1970 fires, I was 15, will never forget being surrounded by the inferno. Oh, and two weeks ago, we had a 4.5 earthquake, one of many I've lived through, but listen, I live a block from a beautiful beach and I love it here. BBC loves to exaggerate this stuff: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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  7.  Capt777harris  Yes, I did downplay your area, which is more wooded, while we are mostly grass and brush. I lived for 10 years in San Francisco, and can remember sitting in an office in West Oakland watching the hills above Caldicot Tunnel go up, and then the entire range, I think it was 1995? I push back on the BBC exaggeration. We build in fire plains, but don't control for it, when the rebuild comes, hope they use these new self-closing attic vents, should help the suburban homes, but the rural areas are another matter. Severe, but not an apocalypse, and we will recover, as before. I was in this one 50 years ago. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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  8.  Capt777harris  No question, smoke from Bearcat fire here in LA County reached me in Long Beach, 40 miles away, I took a picture of the red sun and dark gray sky at 8am posted to my photo website, and we even had a little ash. I just read about the flare up of the Glass Fire, and Sonoma is a mess, I have friends in Healdsburg. It is different here in SoCal, the fires that rage in the San Gabriels and San Bernardinos end up in unpopulated areas, although, a lot of building going on now, we should have stricter building codes. I won't down play it with you, but our friends across the pond don't have the perspective we do, anymore than we do when something happens in Europe. I've lived in the fire plains, and was at Pine and Front in SF on October 1989. It's nature, not some apocalyptic fantasy. The Tunnel Fire was 1991, but there was another one, because I would not have been in that office, it was Fantasy Records on the border between Oakland and Berkeley, but I now remember the Tunnel Fire, too, you could see it from the Embarcadero in SF where I worked. Hang tough, looks like rain for you next week.
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  9.  @yasink331  nonsense
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  10. Not in California, these are the biggest, but proportionally, not as bad as BBC proports. Here is one of the biggest season, and I was there 50 years ago, but it was only a 3rd of what we just went through. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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  11. I just used a web converter, and 3% of California was correct, but I live here, and we are not directly affected by the grass and brush fires that run far and fast in unpopulated areas, which grow back quickly. There are 40 million people in California, few are directly affected, BBC likes to exaggerate.
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  12. Here in SoCal, we protect structures, not grass and brush. BBC exaggerates. We have 40 million people in California, few are directly affected by the fires.
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  13.  @dogwalker666  So does ash from Volcanoes, so does sand from the Sub-Sahara? Fires have raged on the West Coast since before Europeans arrived, many started by the Native Peoples, the place I'm from was called by them "The Valley of the Smokes". I care to rank priorities for best outcomes. Check our Bjorn https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_global_priorities_bigger_than_climate_change/transcript?language=en
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  14. No really, I am a Californian, have been since 1955, there are more than 40 million people here, few are affected by these fires that happen every year.
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  15. I'm in LA, these are brush and grass fires far away, Los Angeles County is 1500 square miles, much of which is unpopulated mountain and desert. There are 40 million people in California, few are directly affected by the fires, which is not new for us, here, read about on 50 YEARS AGO https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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  16.  @Hahakhan-b8i  Ridiculous, until the dollar is no longer the standard in the world, precious metals will fluctuate somewhat, but there are much better ways to increase wealth in America at this time.
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  17. We have 40 million people on California, few are affected by the fires, something we experience every year, your assertion is irrational, but I think you know that.
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  18.  @3talmar  LMAO, never liked rabbit holes, apparently you do, or, are you getting paid?
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  19. Explain my experience with California fires 50 YEARS AGO, we have them every year, read about it https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-08-30/california-fires-1970-legacy
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