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Crow Bar 1 year, 6 months ago.
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Heartbreaking.
Once the fires burn everything down, there’s nothing to stop the mudslides and avalanches. It’s horrible.
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In our area, Flash Flooding was certainly the stepchild of Wildfire… And unfortunately, “fire mitigation” is often working at cross-purposes to “flash flood mitigation”. Our region dances between the two. In the pass, we’ve had boulders the size of two SUVs slide down nearly to the highway.
Another aspect with such huge damage in large areas….for many this will be a relocation rather than an evacuation. This was seriously the case last spring when Big Island’s lava vents and flows rendered MANY properties uninhabitable for the foreseeable future. How do you reestablish ALL the utilities for everyone…let alone housing? How do you relocate so many people? Winter cometh…even in CA.
OldMtWoman 🙁
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OldMt Woman.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by OldMt Woman.
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Maybe people should rethink where they live? Live in a hurricane-prone coastal area and when a hurricane hits you want the government to pay for it. Live in a flood plain and when it floods you want the government to pay for it. Move out into the canyons for the remoteness and wilderness, and when a wildfire hits you want the government to pay for it. Everyone wants the government to pay! The government is all the rest of us who live in safe areas and whose insurance continues to escalate because of others who choose to live in high risk areas often rebuild in those same high-risk areas. What’s right about that? If someone wants to live in a flood plain, why is it that I have to subsidize their protection via government flood insurance or FEMA payments? Let them take the risk, not faust it on others!
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You can build hurricane and tornado proof housing, the building code should reflect this. Flood plain should only be used for farming as best farm land and houses on stilts.
I live in fire area, I have a fire fighting mark 5 pump for 6 2 inch fire hose lines and 1 km of hoses and nozzles. House is fire proof stone and steel with minimal glass.
I don’t do it for fun but it is practical to be able to save your own property, even if government pays it will be pennies and years later.
To help fight fire got ok to make a fire retention pond, I tried for fish pond but holy hell no way with paperwork from government but the pond is ok. Used clay layer when I turned lower fields to line it after summer of baking… pesky eagle must have dropped a trout in. The pond is about size of Olympic pool sized, it has an island in middle which is where main fuel Depot is.
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THAT, Namelus, is called being responsible! Good on you.
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That is great!
Unfortunately I feel you are in the minority of people thinking that way. I read a story about a guy who was trying to get people out of an assisted living facility, and one woman refused to go until she put on her makeup. He had to leave her in order to save the others and himself.
I heard on the radio there is a on going fight between the power company and the insurance agencies about who has to pay in the event of a wildfire.
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