4 Million Acres Of Charcoal
by Bob Walsh
The
formerly great state of California will soon have lost 31 people and 4
million acres of real estate to wild fires in the last five weeks. This
is more land than the entire state of Connecticut.
Decent
size towns have been completely evacuated. The air across much of
California is so foul it is dangerous for healthy people. The smoke has
been detected in Great Britain.
There
are currently more than 17,000 fire fighters battling more than a dozen
major fires and many lesser blazes. Roughly 1,000 buildings have been
destroyed including several hundred private homes.
The
combination of high winds, low humidity, dry lightning strikes and high
fire load due to shitty forest management practices have created
circumstances that make these fires easy to start and quick to spread.
"Global climate change" and Donald Trump are being blamed for much of
this situation.
It is not likely to get any better until the rains start.
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