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I'm headed to bed.
I hope tomorrow is a better day for lots of people.

My thoughts and prayers to everyone so grievously impacted by this fire. It's hard to imagine that there's much left to burn in California. It seems like the whole state's ablaze at one time or another.

Fuggit....burn the whole state down.
Now that Gavin Newsom is going to be governor, I really dont give a f u c k.

Sadly, I agree.

I sincerely grieve for people who lost everything - or worse.

But they have to know that California is "four down territory." A house there is going to shake, slide, blow, or burn down.

And aren't you a lovely American.

After a lifetime of attacks for being an extremely avid hunter, shooter and second amendment supporter, I'm done.
These sonsabitches elected the most radical anti American, anti gun, liberal Governor to lead them into the future and I dont want to be a part of it.
GFY.

Bum deal.

Kali is Kali but there's still a lot of decent folks there that have nothing left.

Sucks.

You don't give a fugg as long as flames aren't licking at your doorstep and threatening your precious taxidermy, of which you'd promptly take pictures and post on the 24hrcf.

Yeah, burn the whole place down because Newsome won and you can't move to Cody because your amazing wife won't let you.

You'd be posting pics of your boy telling us how scary fire is and how worried you are because he's "your world".

But go ahead and make this about you and how you're the victim. Again.

Sal, I have always enjoyed your posts and pictures...and am sympathetic towards your frustration concerning California and its politics...but I think you're a bit out of line on this one.

I’m asking this because I don’t know the facts. Is the fire problem caused by the tree huggers not letting the under brush cleared out.
Or is it the high winds causing the fire to spread. Hasbeen

Classless.

I hope you were just having a bad morning when you posted that, because if that is how you truly feel you are a pathetic excuse for a human being.

There are MILLIONS of great, conservative people in that State (including some of my family and friends, who are impacted by the Campfire.). And even those that DO vote blue still don't deserve to be burned alive, trapped in their houses.

Pathetic.

I am sure like normal, it is probably both, along with drought. Wildlands will burn, whether we like it or not, and the amount of fire suppression over the past 100 or so years is really catching up to us. Add dry conditions and high winds, and you've got a recipe for disaster. The beetle killed areas throughout the west are not helping matters, and the dirt bag hippies are insisting those areas be kept "natural" for various reasons, and their lawyers are paid well.

This is the new west.

....one of my cousins lives up there....just found out she's OK but her business burned down...

Bad deal.

We can have some effect on wild fire, but its pretty darn arrogant to think we can control it.

We could do a helluva better job than we're now doing....we used to have "fire towers" scattered all over the hills....most of them have been torn down or are no longer manned....we also quite often fail to dispatch our air tankers until the fire is out of control....one local fire here broke out this past summer and when it was at 40 acres, Cal Fire reported that they had two crews assigned and were "keeping an eye on it"....the next day, it was over out of control...

We catch nearly every fire in the initial attack stage. Some of them get away and get big. Sometimes there aint much you could have done about it.




People live where they shouldn't, build with what they should't and plant trees where they shouldn't.


I do agree with you though, we could do better.

What Sal said has been said on this forum many times. Nearly every time there is a bad fire in California. Always said by non Californians.



I dont live there, but I see his frustration.

Gets pass from me.

I just saw on the news, (KCRA) the fire is now at 70,000 acres.

Late season fires are generally tough.