I would think any door would have to have a failsafe way to open from the inside, for a house fire, etc.
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
that's a pretty non-contestable requirement of CA Fire Code for buildings
― sarahell, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
and we all know how much rich techbro assholes feel about public safety regulations
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Cue Silicon Valley Jared and the driverless car scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBdrMTxsvs
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
if you die in a fire because of your "smarthome" maybe you... aren't that smart
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
"Open the pod doors HAL"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
SF is on fire and TIME is on it (view quickly before it is deleted):
As fires continue to ravage different parts of California, watch as firefighters face massive flames in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/lFjNOQiBqV— TIME (@TIME) October 29, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
The Zack House by Craig Elwood burned by the Getty fire in Los Angeles.
https://www.facebook.com/KCMODERN/photos/pcb.2525595454199945/2525593230866834/?type=3&theater
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
xp RIP Time tweet
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
the reagan library is now threatened by the blazes
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
bump
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 August 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
CalFire admits in presser this morning that they have NO resources to fight this. Like, NONE. Guess why? Bc the prison populations, who have for decades been California’s primary firefighter hand-crews on wildfires, are too sick with Covid to go. https://t.co/ZZKIpsN5lc— RH Herron/Rachael Herron (@RachaelHerron) August 19, 2020
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 August 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
well, not exactly NONE. but yeah, that is bleak. $2 to $5 a fucking day for the work, too, which probably makes it the highest paid position available for them
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
it would be disgusting even if they weren't exposing themselves to immediate and long term danger for that wage. absolutely unconscionable.
― contorted filbert (harbl), Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-climate-danger-of-kamala-harris-prison-labor-legac-1844712734 this suggests it's $5/hour? not that it makes a difference. (n.b. in spite of myself i don't place much of the blame for this on kamala herself, article doesn't do a great job of explaining how the AG's office got to the point of filing that. however, it's not justifiable.)
― contorted filbert (harbl), Thursday, 20 August 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
Anyone know the likelihood of Santa Cruz city having to evacuate? My sister lives there, and this is cranking up her nervousness...
― DJI, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
(caveat that i'm just some guy, not a firefighter) It's not too close yet but I'd be concerned about the cluster that just broke out south of Henry Cowell State Park (https://www.esri.com/en-us/disaster-response/disasters/wildfires) . CalFire's general policy is to greatly favor protecting residential areas over parks so I wouldn't be surprised if they're already doing controlled burns around UC Santa Cruz.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
xp: She should be fine if she's in town. If she's up the coast or in the hills off Hwy 9 she's probably already evac'd.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
I don’t really want to reveal where I live (not Santa Cruz) but um I have a bag packed. 😬
― brimstead, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
DJI: this account has all the latest information
https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Now UCSC is under evac warning
― DJI, Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
If it gives you any optimism, a fire crew on loan from SLO drove high up into the mountains above San Jose to save all of the Lick Observatory structures last night despite insane high winds, swirling flame and ash.
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/08/mt-hamilton-fire.html
and here's the live shot (the other cams from the actual observatory are no longer broadcasting, not sure if they got damaged):
https://www.see.cam/us/ca/san-jose/mount-hamilton
This was a remote outpost some 30 miles up the hill from San Jose.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 20 August 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
california and also the entire intermountain west is on fire
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 21 August 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
Fire and wind map: https://caltopo.com/map.html?fbclid=IwAR2hBujGNlyLgghWv-ugwVIlK_Sq7s0ywcQEqPelsbsLZGOJa8WuRNmgfrg#ll=37.15703,-122.23938&z=12&b=map&a=modis_mp%2Cwxd_wspd-01
We're lucky the wind isn't higher.
― lukas, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
according to this, my parents (and most of their town) are fine unless the fire jumps the freeway
https://twitter.com/calfireSCU
― sarahell, Friday, 21 August 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Fire Weather Watch issued for 11am Sunday through 11am Tuesday for possibility of dry lightning. Graphics are pending, but here's the fire weather watch text:https://t.co/nADYZ6w9jn— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) August 21, 2020
― lukas, Friday, 21 August 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
The most optimistic take that I've seen today is that having these fires will establish some natural firebreaks for a month from now, when the Santa Ana / Diablo winds start up.
― lukas, Friday, 21 August 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
this place suuuuuucks
― it's a spicy dinner we're having (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 August 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
Bonny Doon, SantaCruz County, CA37.1004, -122.14102618 ft above sea level, facing northhttps://t.co/6jWU2cuETC pic.twitter.com/axwBZEtg7r— California Landscapes (@CALandscapeBot) August 21, 2020
― lukas, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
The LNU and SCU lightning complexes are now the #2 and #3 largest wildfires on the books and the president is threatening to refuse aid because we didn't "clean our floors"
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 22 August 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
fire burned thru the Ventana condor zone where at least 1 baby condor was nexting 2 days ago, so that's a drag
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
Okay this 2019 story is too long but it's good. https://story.californiasunday.com/gone-paradise-fire
Cities founded in the fire-prone frontier by anti-government types that didn't want to be told how to build (proper infrastructure, firebreaks etc.)
Real estate has been the main wealth generator for a while, "Selling out to a developer was the only retirement plan most farmers knew."
"What was once sparse is now densely packed with pine, fir, cedar, and manzanita. A forest that supported 64 trees an acre in pre-settlement times now boasted 160 trees an acre ... 'I don't think we could have managed the forests any worse.'"
"as Wilson and his staff studied the fires more closely, he could see that their oddly linear pattern of ignition clusters corresponded to major electrical power lines."
Forestry management and fire prevention - prescribed burns, reducing fuel load - curtailed in favor of military-style firefighting.
"To justify its high costs, [Cal Fire] had to figure out a way to make itself essential throughout the year. This was how it evolved into a 24/7 provider of emergency services to the sprawling mountain communities ... instead of trying to slow down the suburbanization of forestlands, Wilson said, the department served the growth — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year in funding."
PG&E and a Public Utilities Commission that's not equipped or inclined to regulate it
― lukas, Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
Yet again, a baby gender reveal party sparks a wildfire:
2020: A gender reveal sparked a wildfire in California that's grown to 7,000 acres2020: A gender reveal party ignited a 10-acre brush fire in Florida, fire officials say2017: Officials release video from gender reveal party that ignited a 47,000-acre wildfire in Arizona
bonus gender reveal combustion:2019: Partygoers thought they'd built a clever gender reveal device. It turned out to be a deadly pipe bomb2019: Australian gender reveal party goes wrong as car bursts into flames
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Monday, 7 September 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
Oregon is collectively holding its breath for the next 48 hours
https://www.kptv.com/weather/blog/extreme-fire-weather-next-48-hours-includes-damaging-wind-for-some/article_9f381716-f0be-11ea-9a76-47427495df5f.html
― sleeve, Monday, 7 September 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
View of the Bobcat Fire from my street last night. Tonight is the same.
#BobcatFire over Sierra Madre right now + couple hours of ashfall on my car. pic.twitter.com/zXc0ZDmL0c— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) September 7, 2020
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
Here's a timelapse from inception, from a Mt Wilson cam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX49jfIAJwI&feature=emb_logo
― nickn, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link
or search this on youtube.
Bobcat Fire Time-Lapse from Mt. Wilson
― nickn, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
Christ! Doesn't take much does it? Hope y'all are breathing ok. Over the past ~3 weeks in SF I've figured out that anything above 70 on Purple Air's AQandU setting starts bothering my throat/lungs so I let that dictate whether I sweat it out in my hotbox of an apartment or open the windows and take a walk. It hit a hundred degrees yesterday while the AQI was around 90 and I'd never been more grateful to have a box fan and the electricity to power it.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
Friend of mine is posting live AQI updates from Eugene ... 538, 560, 593, 607 ...
― lukas, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
I don't even care if it actually retards the actual fire - they can hike my taxes if it means I get to be treated more frequently to these sweet jet dump Action Tweets
The #ValleyFire currently has eight air tankers assigned to the incident. When the retardant is dumped it can be a spectacular sight. Video taken 9/6/20 at 5:14 p.m. near Alpine pic.twitter.com/rwyXFpEEbD— CAL FIRE/SAN DIEGO COUNTY FIRE (@CALFIRESANDIEGO) September 7, 2020
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
I could watch that cherry red retardant get dumped from that screaming sky bird all day long baby
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
does it smell great in the morning?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
on the morning after a beet salad dinner hahahaa
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that what is essentially the opposite of napalm smells like Code Red Mountain Dew and say that yes, yes it does
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
but, key thing ... do you surf???
― sarahell, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
nah, too dangerous! I boogie board for fifteen minutes once every quarter-century, but that's it. beach schmeach, that's what I say
― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
@MikeNiccoABC7 @DrewTumaABC7 These were from Willits and Covelo, respectively, around 2:30 today. Ukiah is as dark as 10pm would be but my camera won’t pick it up. It’s insane here. Apocalypse-like. pic.twitter.com/sAUPvRbaa6— AlmightyAce (@AlmightyAcey) September 8, 2020
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
lukas, I'm in Eugene. It's apocalyptic. We're packing emergency kits tonight.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
numerous friends who live less than an hour away have had to evacuate
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
I suppose maybe I could have should have lowballed and compared it to that one time NJ sent us some foul-smelling air.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, FW2020 was rough. 5 of the 10 worst wildfires in the history of California (and Oregon wasn't much better).
Not only were we in COVID lockdown but also choking on dense wildfire smoke for close to 3 months. Even our indoor AQI readings were in the triple digits. Those of us with kids dealing with at-home everything and then no more going outside for fresh air made things extremely unmanageable.
https://i.imgur.com/WsuDF4n.jpg
Good luck East Coasters.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:38 (ten months ago) link
(no filter on the pic, white-balanced to the interior lighting)
It makes me think of there Las Vegas set scenes of Blade Runner 2049.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:41 (ten months ago) link
ok fine i will admit to experiencing a ~tiny~ bit of schadenfreude after spending many many years slowly accepting that smoke = summer in northern california but also: i am v sorry this is happening to you all, it super sucks & i know firsthand it becomes very depressing + scary very quickly. stay safe! stay indoors!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:13 (ten months ago) link
Thanks. Definitely some disturbing AQIs over here in Queens, some very unhealthy and even hazardous.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:18 (ten months ago) link
veg otm
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:22 (ten months ago) link
oh in case anyone needs indoor filters:
https://deohs.washington.edu/edge/blog/how-make-box-fan-filter-clean-indoor-air-smoke
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 22:58 (ten months ago) link
i pulled up the purple air map for nyc. jfc, that is worse than what we had in norther california in 2020 when everything turned orange and freaky.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 8 June 2023 00:33 (ten months ago) link
stay safe y’all :-(incredible photo, Steve
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 June 2023 00:40 (ten months ago) link
There have also been plenty of wildfires in Quebec before this year. What's freaking me out is that it's only June
― silverfish, Thursday, 8 June 2023 00:46 (ten months ago) link
I have lived in SF for most of my life, and September 9th, 2020, dubbed "orange skies day", will always be a day I remember, it was a very dim orange twilight all day and even the birds didn't know how to respond, it was freaky. Steve Shasta's photo captures it
I think the particulate matter AQI score in NY today was maybe even higher though
― Dan S, Thursday, 8 June 2023 01:00 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, that day was incredibly eerie but it was nowhere near one of the worst air quality days that year. Iirc, the orange skies were a result of a cloud layer creating a buffer between the city and most of the particulate.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 8 June 2023 02:14 (ten months ago) link
welp
i've seen a fair number of westerners with thoughts along the same lines as sleeve/map and i get it, but . . . this *hasn't* happened in nyc before. (james redd could only compare it to 9/11!)i mean, if the west coast of the usa gets hit by a hurricane sometime, that too will be very noteworthy despite the southeast getting several every summer― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 4:31 PM (two months ago)
i mean, if the west coast of the usa gets hit by a hurricane sometime, that too will be very noteworthy despite the southeast getting several every summer
― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 4:31 PM (two months ago)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 August 2023 02:41 (eight months ago) link
yup. everything is on fire around us right now as well.
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 19 August 2023 02:42 (eight months ago) link
over 1000 fires in Canada
https://data.statesmanjournal.com/fires/
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 19 August 2023 02:43 (eight months ago) link
Photo of a hurt and angry planet
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/16/multimedia/18californiatoday-hilary/18californiatoday-hilary-articleLarge.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 August 2023 03:10 (eight months ago) link
Nothing really close to me at the moment; being basically on the shore of a giant lake must keep the ground pretty well irrigated, I guess. But I'm keeping an eye on the map.
https://www.mtfireinfo.org/pages/current-fire-info
― read-only (unperson), Saturday, 19 August 2023 03:19 (eight months ago) link
Quebec man who blamed wildfires on government pleads guilty to setting 14 fires
A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 14:21 (three months ago) link
Nice misdirection dude
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 16:34 (three months ago) link