Posted by:
Tevai
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Date: November 12, 2018 08:19AM
Amyjo Wrote:
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> It's all over the state. Where is safe exactly?
These fires are being fed by dry chaparral (dry brush: tangled, overgrown, semi-desert native, shrubs and bushes), or too-dry trees/tree leaves/pine needles (etc.) (fir trees, eucalyptus trees, etc.).
Rolling hills, low-accessibility mountains (the California, often gorgeously scenic, kind of mountains), and flatlands which are high in these kinds of too-dry vegetation are NOT safe in high fire danger situations--but if you are living in the middle of a densely-populated area (such as on a valley floor), which does NOT have too much, too dry, vegetation around, then you are (at minimum) "safer," because there is little which exists in that area to feed the wildfire, so firefighters can control any fires, which do break out, fairly "easily."
> Being prepared to evacuate quickly has to save
> lives. People tend to believe the bad things
> happen elsewhere. Not in these out of control
> fires they're not.
Absolutely true, Amyjo. I know for a fact that many families who were ordered to evacuate were not prepared for those orders (some of them came over loudspeakers, at 3:00 AM, from police patrol cars), and are filling the shopping malls (such as Topanga Plaza), plus other stores, to buy necessities for the different family members because those things were left behind when the police came through and ordered everyone out: Right now!!!! Immediately!!!! Get Out!!!!
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/12/2018 04:31PM by Tevai.