sunmoonie.bsky.social
Liberal Piemaker. Discouraged but not defeated. My 6 granddaughters deserve better.
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That cat has some ears!
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Please add me. Thanks!
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They need to sue the crap out of them
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At least that's what they're telling him. lol
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You personify the term willfully ignorant. 😊
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Texas' power grid is unreliable because they refuse to rely on anything but fossil fuels for their power.
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You still don't get it. California's power grid isn't unreliable. What is unreliable is the extreme weather we are getting due to climate change. That is why the power companies have to shut down power to certain areas. To protect them.
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That's one year. And it's only due to deliberate outages to prevent wildfires due to the wind. On the other hand, Texas has an unreliable grid, especially in 2021 when dozens died due to power outages. There's a difference.
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many areas, and electricity powers the system that keeps the water pressurized. It’s an issue of lack of pressure, not lack of water. And aircraft that can scoop up water, even from the ocean, can’t fly in heavy winds. 
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stop, can only suppress, until the conditions change. Like waiting out a hurricane. A hurricane of fire.
#LAFire
PS the horrible circumstance of fire hydrants not producing sufficient water is happening, not because there is not enough water stored, but because electricity has been turned off in
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6. Only when the wind dies down, can effective firefighting happen. And even then, the wind can return. This is what firefighters and residents are battling in LA right now. This is how entire neighborhoods can be burned in one night, in multiple locations, creating conditions firefighters can’t
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urban area. Fires on that wind are like a blowtorch and can’t be stopped.
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5. When winds blow at these high speeds, with gusts up to 100 miles an hour, as happened in LA on Tuesday, fire is inevitable and can’t be stopped. Planes and helicopters cannot fly to drop water or retardant from the air. Sparks and embers will be blasted across even an extensive densely built
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as has happened in southern California this year - all that voluminous dry vegetation from the previous wet years is overlapping with the Santa Ana winds. This is a recipe for disaster.
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4. What can help prevent catastrophic fires is the fact that typically, by the time the Santa Ana winds start, the dry half of the year is ending and rains come. That is happening less consistently now. When the long dry season extends into October, and November, and December -
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typically from October to January. This is when the Santa Ana winds blow in the other direction. The Santa Ana winds are what is creating this situation. These are high dry winds coming from California’s inland desert areas blowing out towards the sea.
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Every summer, no matter how much rain came in the preceding winter.
3. For most of the year, coastal California gets a lot of moisture-laden, cool wind coming from the Pacific Ocean and blowing onto the land. However, that changes during part of the year in southern California,
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That happened during the last couple of years. So there’s a lot of fuel for fire. And it doesn’t stay moist and shady as in a tall, dense redwood forest, or in a Midwestern or eastern forest where rain occurs during the summer. In Southern California, it just all dries out.
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2. The vegetation around LA is brushy with smaller trees. During our six months without rain, this vegetation becomes very dry. Even if and especially when there has been a lot of rain in the preceding winter. A lot of rain makes the vegetation grow. Then in the summer it all dries out.
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And the California climate. And climate change.
1. A lot of people who don’t live here also don’t understand the Mediterranean climate. For six months of the year, we do not have rain. This can create very dry conditions. The other six months should contain significant amounts of rain.
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I think you're confusing California with Texas. We have reliable electricity.
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And Trump will say it's all because Joe Biden ruined the economy. And MAGAts will believe it.
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Hydrants ran dry because the power was off. It wasn't because of failed water policy.
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Over on MAGA, they're making a BFD out of it
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They just blame Newsom. They'll never admit it's caused by climate change.
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Geeezuz.
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And it was their parents who made those signs.