I’m sure a bunch of people with gas and generators are less likely to start fires than the alternative, right?
Don’t forget candles and kerosene lanterns.
What a brain dead policy that is nearly guaranteed to cause deaths.
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If only there was a way for one of the richest countries on the planet to combat fire season and keep the lights on at the same time.
Cybernetic mutant goats. They’ll eat almost anything.
Power out, but the generator’s doing great. Lost cable, and I have minimal cell service. I’ll be lucky if this even posts. Why didn’t I download some games to my laptop? It’s gonna be a long day.
Don’t catch your house on fire (with that generator)!
No power outage in Concord today, but fires are breaking out in the vicinity.
East Bay has been crazy today; grass fires started up near the toll both on the Carqinuez Bridge and I-80 traffic was cut for many hours today, snarling cross-bay traffic. Supposedly embers from the north side of the channel floated all the way to the south part of the channel and started fires around Crockett (just a mile or so from the big tank fires from last week), and then other fires cropped up in Martinez later in the day.
Meanwhile quite a few structures went up today from the Kincade Fire including several wineries and historic buildings, and because of the crazy wind jumped many containment lines and the percentage contained actually dropped. 80-100 mph wind gusts were reported in some areas in North Bay.
— Alan
Fire in Lafayette as well last night…took out a tennis club and some homes, caused by PG&E equipment. Appears to be largely out now.
Marsh fire on Grizzly Island, up the bay near Suisun. Kincade Fire nearly doubled in size from yesterday’s estimate. Another wind event is forecast for tomorrow night. Looks like the Lafayette fires may have been caused by PG&E.
— Alan
Good news - I have XCom2 on the laptop!
Bad news - my laptop is a pos that overheats like a motherfucker. The USB cooling-fan-base I have to address that is at work. sigh
Smoke is pretty nasty at the moment. The one is Suisun seems to be what’s causing most of our smoke here in the far East Bay. Most of the Kincade smoke seems to be blowing out to sea.
Cool map here:
How do satellites measure wind speed and direction?
Power restored… for 12 hours, then they’re cutting it again for another 24-48. Downloading a bunch of shit to my laptop, running the dishwasher, and doing laundry. Hope to hell I can get some more gas tonight.
This shit is untenable.
They just measure wind speed and direction.
(/wittertainment)
With lasers. In particular, by analyzing the Doppler shift of lasers bounced off the atmosphere.
