Subj : Re: LA Fires
To : Uber-Geek
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Jan 14 2025 01:42 pm
-=> Uber-Geek wrote to Gamgee <=-
Ub> Since this topic has been clogging the feeds for a while, I'll give my
Ub> two cents:
Clogging the feeds? It's been a busy topic of discussion, for sure, for
what should be obvious reasons.
Ub> It was never about lack of money or water.
It's always about money, if you're honest about it.
Ub> As stated by an LA firefighter offical: No system in existence would
Ub> have been able to deliver enough water to supress the fires. The amount
Ub> of sustained water release needed to quell a fire driven by high winds
Ub> simply isn't available.
Very likely true.
Ub> When fires like this happen they rely on air units to deliver the
Ub> majority of the water supression. With the winds in the 70MPH+ range,
Ub> that was not possible during the initial stages of the fires.
Yup.
Ub> Once the winds had died down, you got an idiot out there flying his
Ub> drone and it hits one of the planes, which resulted in them grounding
Ub> all air operations for a time. I hope his Youtube channel gets lots of
Ub> views.
Grounding all flights seems like an over-reaction to one incident.
Ub> We're seeing positive suppression now that the air units are able to
Ub> resume operations. Had they been able to do so in the beginning, it
Ub> would have been a different story.
Maybe, and if pigs had wings, they could fly.
Ub> The time for focusing on money and who to point a political finger at
Ub> is not now. Right now everyone needs to focus on fighting the fires and
Ub> helping people. Those in the policital spectrum who only point fingers
Ub> should remember there are three others pointing right back to them.
From what I've seen, what's being discussed are the possible/probable
causes and contributing factors to the fires. Not political, just
factual.
... A politican will double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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