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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