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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| LA house spared by fire is split in half after being hit by another natural disaster |
| 2025-01-17 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 Should probably cancel the live action How to Train Your Dragon, just to be safe. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-01-17 15:52 |
| #7 It’s retribution for the Snow White reboot. That was too much. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-01-17 13:55 |
| #6 Fires and earthquakes.... who knew ? Evacuations, Road Closures Begin as Fire Engulfs World’s Largest Battery Plant in California |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-17 13:14 |
| #5 Except that the engine necessary for the pump is probably against California law. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-01-17 12:31 |
| #4 So I guess the lack of water for firefighting was a mudslide preventative measure? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-17 10:17 |
| #3 Fires and earthquakes.... who knew ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-17 07:57 |
| #2 That whole area's subsurface is tenuous at best for building foundational support. Not much topsoil and an underlying loose rock structure. Take away the ground cover (like, in a fire) and the soil in steeper areas looses any support. Given any amount or water (or even a very minor earthquake), it lets go pretty easily. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-01-17 07:54 |
| #1 The photos of the source article show a long row of burnt-out houses right on the beachfront. AFAICT, there was nothing to prevent a homeowner from running an intake pipe down the beach and into the seawater. Along with a fuel powered pump, that water could have been used to fight a fire, if only for buildings directly on the shoreline. The expense of doing that seems very small in proportion to the expense of replacing the destroyed building. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-01-17 01:17 |