xp glad to hear that, tlg. Phoenix and Talent both got it pretty bad.
― sleeve, Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
xp That's a start, thank you. Now please find a new name for your The Dallas before Texas feels any more messed with.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
yeah me too, it's a super cute place. sending good vibes to everyone affected. my local fire is about 75% contained and the ash has stopped falling but i'm still not ready to go for a jog because of the pervasive haze. i live on a main emergency road uphill from a big fire station, and pretty much backed up to a regional park which is just a series of canyons full of piles of overgrown dry brush, so every time the marshal goes by in his truck with sirens blazing i get real nervous.
― the late great, Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
xp as a fellow san diegan and burrito lover, i'm honestly not sure why you're trying to provoke ppl. you seem cool enough but this probably isn't the time or place.
― the late great, Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
(not my intent! really only hoping to provoke Texas with the Dallas thing. you know they probably have a chip on their shoulder about it)
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
I'm not sure if you are aware that the Oregon city you are citing is The Dalles.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 12 September 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
it's the dalles and i thought it was prounounced "the dales". as in chip and dale.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
As a lifelong local it is pronounced to rhyme with some hypothetical tavern named "Al's", and not "ales" as in IPAs.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 12 September 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
also if we think the western u.s. is bad take a look at south america and africa in this nasa fire map
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhnWM88UMAIJ5ep?format=jpg&name=large
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/
i mean .................................
we are so so fucked.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
Do not forget the enormous catastrophic fires that raged across Australia just a few months ago. iirc, estimates of wildlife killed by those fires ranged up to one billion animals.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 12 September 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
From what I understand most of the fires in Africa are in the savannas and are important aspects of their ecosystems. But yeah, the steady deforestation of the Amazon is a major global threat and only likely to accelerate as long as Bolsonaro turns a blind eye to land-grabbing arsonists.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 12 September 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
this piece argues that controlled burning needs to start being applied to 30 million acres in ca alone (right now it's like 13,000 acres or something)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/california-cant-afford-to-wait-for-climate-action.html
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
i can't keep any of these numbers straight everything is just like "an overwhelming and impossible amount"
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
So basically a long intense fire/smoke season annually until everything that can burn, does?
― lukas, Saturday, 12 September 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
^ without a major shift in forest management, yes
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 12 September 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
There are other books, of course, but I really do think that City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear are absolutely required reading for anyone living not just in LA or California, but anywhere on the West Coast.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 September 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
thanks, table. don't know either of those.
― sleeve, Saturday, 12 September 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
At this point, maybe check out Ecology Of Fear first? Davis' "The Case For Letting Malibu Burn" chapter is u & k
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
Agreed with Elvis.
It's hard to think about the places I love most burning.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
Feeling for anyone near these blazes, it's unbearably smokey here,have a sore chest from being out running errands
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 13 September 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the link to that Mike Davis-essay. Very interesting.
― Mule, Sunday, 13 September 2020 09:36 (three years ago) link
That Davis essay is essential.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
(Apologies for the twitter cross-posting)
Bloody sun over Sierra Madre. Ash fall is getting coarser. pic.twitter.com/JKcwy7NgYb— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) September 13, 2020
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 September 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
One hour ago on Highland Oaks Dr. pic.twitter.com/IlppS32lxU— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) September 13, 2020
thickest smoke so far in Eugene this morning, just unbelievable
so grateful for the HEPA filter in our furnace
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 September 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
OregonLive: The desperate fight to save his family ends in tragedy
Back in the Jeep, struggling to navigate a road once so familiar but now shrouded by smoke-filled darkness, Chris almost ran over what looked like a bikini-clad woman on the road. Once he was closer, he realized she was wearing underwear. Her hair was singed, her mouth looked almost black, and her bare feet were severely burned.He impatiently tried to help her into his car, explaining how he needed to find his wife and son, feeling like she was resisting.Finally, she spoke. “I am your wife.”
He impatiently tried to help her into his car, explaining how he needed to find his wife and son, feeling like she was resisting.
Finally, she spoke. “I am your wife.”
xp: the VIIRS global fire maps can be a bit misleading. The satellites are sensitive enough to pick up controlled fires of field waste (crop stems etc) used to return minerals to the soil and aid pest control, as well as controlled trash fires. Only a minority of the dots are deforestation by fire.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Sunday, 13 September 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
Jfc
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 September 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
trigger warning galore on that story, fwiw
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 September 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
sleeve, I enjoyed this newer Mike Davis book too, you might dig: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2779-old-gods-new-enigmas
― brimstead, Sunday, 13 September 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
(slightly o/t)
thanks, man
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 September 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
Finally a day of breathable air here in Seattle. Really looking forward to stepping outside without putting on my N-95.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 September 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
Portland metro got some breathable air yesterday. I went for a 4 mile walk in the rain just to enjoy it.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 19 September 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
very good to hear! I hope Eugene is getting better too, sleeve
― rob, Saturday, 19 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
yep, thanks, we're back to "normal" for now. currently at the coast, it's lovely
― sleeve, Saturday, 19 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
Someone rendered the 2020 CA fire perimeters to date on a topo map, and it's striking.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
there's been some good map overlays comparing the Holiday Fire in Oregon to previously logged areas, gee what a surprise
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
Pretty bad tonight. An acquaintance lost his Santa Rosa home to the Tubbs fire in October 2017, and right now its looking like the Shady fire will hit eastern Santa Rosa by morning, crossing land burnt just 3 years ago.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Monday, 28 September 2020 05:32 (three years ago) link
I have a handful of friends who moved up north, near Santa Rosa to more easily quarantine without getting the same kind of cabin fever that people living in urban apartments/dense housing do ... and they got evacuation notices at like 6am this morning
― sarahell, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
fuck that sucksthese fires look so bad
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
was talking via zoom to a client today and we were both like, "can this stop now?" like, after the almost two weeks of shitty air quality from SCU and CZU .. it's like, geez not again, also it was 95 degrees this afternoon
― sarahell, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
yeah getting kinda ptsd from it - cant even imagine ppl who are going through evacuations or losing property for a second time
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
4 yrs ago next week, early on a Monday morning, my parents emergency evacuated from their home. This Monday morning, for the 4th time in 4 yrs, they are uncomfortably close to a major fire. I’m a climate scientist and I study global warming. Even I can’t process this step change.— Abigail Swann, PhD (@ecoclimatelab) September 28, 2020
― Voulez-vous un coup d'etat, ce soir? (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 07:10 (three years ago) link
was reading about The Restaurant at Meadowood’s burning, it is kind of shocking.
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
oh what I didn’t know that! :( i ate there 10+ years ago, one of the best & fanciest meals of my life
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
Orange skiesCarnivals and cotton candy and youAnd I love you too you know I do...
They're back! At least here in Oakland... it was supposed to be in the 90s today, but the smoke is blocking the sun
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 October 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
it was definitely in the 90s yesterday in Oakland ... today isn't as bad.
― sarahell, Friday, 2 October 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
though if you were somewhere where it _wasn't_ in the 90s I wanna know where that paradise is!
― sarahell, Friday, 2 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
it was even horrible and gross in Alameda, and it's a fucking island, surrounded by water!!