@jeffwM to News • 1 month agoThe California fires could scorch the state's broken insurance marketwww.motherjones.commessage-square22arrow-up184arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@Brkdncrlink14•1 month agoThere’s no such thing as a small controlled fire alongside a hill that homes have been built into. There’s no way back from this other than not rebuilding those areas so they can be maintained. Additionally, with winds up to 100mph and humidity below 20%, you can barely keep homes from burning, much less any sort of vegetation. But don’t worry, we’ll all be slinging the same mud again next season when hurricanes wipe out some coastal populations.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•1 month agoYup. 10 years ago controlled burns would have helped. Now it’s too late.
There’s no such thing as a small controlled fire alongside a hill that homes have been built into.
There’s no way back from this other than not rebuilding those areas so they can be maintained.
Additionally, with winds up to 100mph and humidity below 20%, you can barely keep homes from burning, much less any sort of vegetation.
But don’t worry, we’ll all be slinging the same mud again next season when hurricanes wipe out some coastal populations.
Yup. 10 years ago controlled burns would have helped.
Now it’s too late.
More like 50+ years before they were built up.