Biker Can't Take the Heat From The Fort McMurray Wildfire by JAYNEZTOWN

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Biker Can't Take the Heat From The Fort McMurray Wildfire

POSTED BY: JAYNEZTOWN
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 19:39
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Sunday, May 8, 2016 5:55 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Holy Sheee

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Sunday, May 8, 2016 6:57 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Holy crap ! That's insane !

Watch the small fire by the house turn into a huge furnace in no time.

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Monday, May 9, 2016 11:04 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

That's amazing.

I was wondering about those people who seemed to be stuck in traffic in the slow lane, closest to the fire.

The thing that impressed me was how FAST the fire moved. You could be planning on taking a road that seemed safe, only to have it engulfed in flame. That bush that RAPPY mentioned flaring up in the first video? I can see how you could suddenly have an inferno on both sides of the road. No wonder people die in wildfires, they spread so fast.

The other things is how BIG that fire is. That fire is about 621 square miles! That's like 15-mile wide fire that stretches from my house to my sister's, who is ten cities away. That's a 10-mile wide fire that stretches from Buffalo to Rochester NY.

The thing that brought it home to me was that Fort McMurray is only a little smaller than my city.

Now, I know I feel safe from widlfires where I live. And I would have STILL felt safe, even if a city this size were parked somewhere in the middle of nature, and I were near the middle of THAT. All of those well-watered lawns and fire-resistant roofs have got to be good for something, right?

But 20% of Fort McMurray was destroyed.

Amazing, simply amazing.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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Monday, May 9, 2016 4:46 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

"That bush that RAPPY mentioned flaring up in the first video? I can see how you could suddenly have an inferno on both sides of the road. No wonder people die in wildfires, they spread so fast."

I looked a bit closer. There were three bushes on fire across the street from the main fire, two directly across the street and one across the street and around the corner - all I'm estimating a minimum of 200 feet away from the fire source (and further away when they were first set on fire). There may have been bushes and trees on fire in the back yards that weren't visible.

I'm guessing they were set on fire by embers, that just happened to land in the right spot. And watching them burn - as well as some small bushes on the near-fire side - it looks like the burning goes through a process. First the flames burning the bushes are small and indolent. Then as the main fire gets closer, and the air hotter and drier, the bushes dry and burn fiercely.

California law requires that you keep a defensible space if you live in a wildfire zone - the first 30' clean and green, the next 70' reduced fuel. http://www.readyforwildfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DefensibleS
paceFlyer.pdf I'm not sure 100' is enough.

otoh some homes survive even the worst firestorms, like this one:

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-30/local/me-51358_1_uninsured-home
Two local architects also came Friday to study the design and materials used in the house. The thick concrete walls, tile roof, double-paned glass windows and absence of flammable shrubs helped save the house, said Eric Zuziak, 31.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7:39 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-30/local/me-51358_1_uninsured-home
Two local architects also came Friday to study the design and materials used in the house. The thick concrete walls, tile roof, double-paned glass windows and absence of flammable shrubs helped save the house, said Eric Zuziak, 31.

Clearly, the folks who lived in that house were Christians. Right ?

Kidding !

And I don't see how those drivers kept so calm in the above video. No one drove up on the curb, or the yards , but stayed in the lanes... no way. I'd be all over the yards and through the play ground if the flames were that close.

Why were there folks going BOTH WAYS in traffic in that one video ? I'd think everyone woulb be getting the the heck out of dodge the same direction.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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