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2019-10-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Emergency in California as wildfires rage out of control
[DAWN] Thousands of firefighters battled into the early hours on Monday, losing ground to the huge blaze burning through the famed Sonoma wine region in northern California.

California’s governor declared a statewide emergency on Sunday as the wind-driven Kincade Fire spread to more than 34,000 acres (14,000 hectares), forcing residents to flee.
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In Los Angeles, meanwhile the local fire department issued mandatory evacuation orders after a “very dynamic” brush fire broke out west of a major highway, US 405, near The Getty museum.

Refugees from the Kincade blaze, the largest of more than a dozen burning throughout the state, recalled hasty departures as they waited it out in the safety of a community center in Petaluma, California.

“The police came with loudspeakers. We weren’t expecting it,” said Kathy Amund­son, who had to get her 90-year-old mother Joy into a wheelchair and then into the car for the trip out. “We smelled smoke, we cou­­ldn’t see it,” she said. “Looks like our home is safe but the fear is wind blowing ambers and then it starts new fires.” Others were not so lucky. The fire has destroyed dozens of homes and vineyards, including the renowned 150-year-old Soda Rock Winery.

“We’ve seen the news. We are devastated,” the owners said in a Facebook message, adding that all staff at the winery — located in the town of Healdsburg, 70 miles north of San Francisco — are safe.
Posted by Fred 2019-10-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 Voting Green/Dem is so pre-Edison
Posted by 3dc 2019-10-30 00:17||   2019-10-30 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder, now that the deplorables been burned out, will the Silicon Valley tycoons buy up the land and build huge estates?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-30 01:35||   2019-10-30 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Collect the insurance money and head east. Feet don't fail me now!
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-30 07:51||   2019-10-30 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Not to kick these idiots when they're down, but how much CO2 and particulate matter (aka soot) do these raging fires release? Doesn't seem very green. Unless blackened is the New Green.
Posted by SteveS 2019-10-30 11:02||   2019-10-30 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Shitstorm, courtesy of the Shitshow
Posted by Lex 2019-10-30 11:45||   2019-10-30 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Just maybe they will do as most other states do, controlled burns...
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-10-30 12:07||   2019-10-30 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Not to kick these idiots when they're down, but how much CO2 and particulate matter (aka soot) do these raging fires release?

Good question, SteveS. Fact is, PG&E could save upwards of $2 billion per year if the state did not compel them to buy the far more expensive "green" energy. That's money that could have been spent on upgrading the utility's 100-year-old infrastructure that has been proven to be the cause of so many of these fires. The carbon emissions from these fires are far greater than all the oil and natural gas would have generated. But Newsom would prefer to blame Trump.

Ever see a power plant pollute this much?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-30 13:23||   2019-10-30 13:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Jerry Brown Blames Trump, Republicans for California Fires: ‘The Blood Is on Your Soul’

Brown has always had a flare for the dramatic and he has always been reality impaired.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-30 13:33||   2019-10-30 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Brown is a fuckin idiot
Posted by chris 2019-10-30 14:24||   2019-10-30 14:24|| Front Page Top

#10 flare for the dramatic

Haha...fires, snort!
Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-30 15:38||   2019-10-30 15:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Just maybe they will do as most other states do, controlled burns...

Start with LA.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-30 15:39||   2019-10-30 15:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Now, now, Skid. They mean controlled burns in the forests, not in the cities.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-10-30 16:56||   2019-10-30 16:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Jerry Brown: Shitshow's carny barker
Posted by Lex 2019-10-30 19:18||   2019-10-30 19:18|| Front Page Top

#14 jerry brown vetoed a bipartisan bill a few years ago which would resulted in more brush clearing

Posted by lord garth 2019-10-30 23:17||   2019-10-30 23:17|| Front Page Top

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