Image credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response
The latest NASA photo of the Southern California wildfires, above, is nothing short of breathtaking ... and not in a good way.
The red pixels represent fire activity.
Worse yet, this photo was taken on Tuesday at 2:25 p.m. Eastern Time, well before fire officials began to speak of hope that changing weather conditions might bring some relief.
According to the space agency: "NASA satellites have obtained new images of the California wildfires, illustrating the immense scale of the blazes. The National Interagency Fire Center reports that 12 large, uncontained fires have burned over 335,000 acres in Southern California. The fires have continued to spread due to the fierce, dry Santa Ana winds."
Additional NASA images can be seen here.
There have been estimates that a million people have been evacuated.
Call it a small glimmer, if you will, but at least the "fire blogger" we interviewed yesterday has been able to return to his home.
I said it was a small glimmer.
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Dear California,
Your state catches on fire every few years. Seriously, look it up. In fact, here's a picture of your state from 2003:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11799
When the fires clear, how about not rebuilding right in their path? This makes about as much sense as building along the Mississippi anymore.
Here's some more homework:
http://gis.ca.gov/catalog/BrowseRecord.epl?id=21086
huh
So tell me, which southwestern states *don't* catch fire regularly?
If we never built where there was a wildfire, we'd never build anyplace!
Some people just want to complain, I guess; or perhaps they wish they could live here too....
No, its people like you that
No, its people like you that are ignorant enough not to understand that there are places in the world we are just not supposed to live. If the infrastructure was so poor or there is no water etc. Why would we change the way the land is to live there? Why would we build in a high fire zone? On a consistenly overflowing river? These things are just plain stupid.
In this case ignorance is
In this case ignorance is bliss. In a ironic way it makes individual since for people to build in fire or flood zones because through federal aide and insurance money after a disaster many people get a brand spanking new house in the same spot. Then guess who gets to pay for it - the so called smart people that do not build in these "disaster" prone zones. Therefore we subsidize our own disasters, because if there wasn't any structures to burn, fires would be just another natural occurance.
Oh Yeah, Build a home in the
Oh Yeah, Build a home in the flood plain, build a wooden house in the forest, build at the base of an avalanche chute, build on a barrier island...The ancient admonishment. "Build your house not upon the sand" sound familiar...Whatever you gamble eventually you will lose....Trees and fauna are beautiful energy storage devices...The vegetation in California burns like it is designed, or evolved take your pick...Build out of concrete, metal and trim back the under brush.
and brush after every meal...
"Build your house not upon
"Build your house not upon the sand" is actually a paraphrase of "The foolish man built his house upon the sand" rather than on the rock. This is not from an "ancient book" at all, but from one of the Gospels and was spoken by Jesus Christ - not referring to physical buildings at all, but to building your life on the sinking sand of hollow philosophies rather than on the solid rock - Himself. It's decent advice relative to buildind permits, but it's invaluable for building your life upon.
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I came to this web site to find networking and I found religion. Do wonders never cease?
Re: Found
So it holds true that:
"Networking is Religion"