Authored by Michael Snyder via The Ned of The Americanm Dream blog,
An “extreme wind event” will relentlessly pummel the state of California through Friday, and it will be a challenge unlike anything firefighters in the state have ever faced before. Right now there are 17 wildfires currently burning in the state, but that number is expected to rise significantly over the next 72 hours. High winds can carry embers a great distance from the existing fires, and it only takes a single ember to start a new blaze. Over the next three days, “devil winds” of up to 80 mph will create conditions that are absolutely ideal for the spread of wildfires, and this has caused authorities to issue “red flag warnings” for 43 different California counties. To have this many counties under a “red flag warning” is extremely unusual, and Californians are bracing for 72 hours of hell as raging infernos burn all around them.
So far, the largest blaze is the Kincade Fire in northern California. It has been burning since October 23rd, and at this point it has consumed 75,000 acres.
To put that in perspective, that is approximately twice the size of San Francisco.
Thousands of firefighters are fighting the Kincade fire around the clock, but it is currently only “15% contained”.
The brave men and women that fight these fires don’t get nearly enough credit. They are literally putting their lives on the line in order to protect the rest of us…
San Francisco firefighters shared heart-stopping video on Tuesday showing the front window view of a firetruck rushing to the front lines of the fire on a burning hill in Sonoma County, passing through thick smoke, orange flames, and blazing embers.
San Francisco Firefighters Local 798 shared the footage on Twitter showing the Kincade Fire rage at 3am adding: ‘We appreciate their complete dedication to the task of protecting lives and property.’
On Tuesday, Pacific Gas & Electric began another massive blackout in order to help prevent more fires from starting.
Approximately 1.5 million Californians are currently without power, and needless to say this is fraying a lot of nerves.
Meanwhile, the Getty Fire in southern California continues to make headlines all over the nation.
At this point it is only “5% contained”, and many are concerned that the high winds could cause it to start spreading rapidly again.
More than 1,000 firefighters are attempting to contain the Getty Fire, and LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas is warning that the high winds are expected “to be the worst the region has seen this season”…
With about 1,100 firefighters battling the blaze, crews’ main objective Tuesday will be to boost containment ahead of extreme Santa Ana winds set to arrive overnight and into early Wednesday. The gusts are expected to be the worst the region has seen this season, said LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas.
Unfortunately, this crisis will not be over once we get to Friday.
In fact, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is telling us that the Getty Fire will not be completely out “for a couple of weeks”.
Of course new fires can start at any time. According to Terrazas, all it takes to start another horrific blaze is for “one ember to blow downwind”…
‘It only takes one ember to blow downwind to start another fire. We’re very concerned about tonight’s wind event,’ LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas said to the Los Angeles Times.
‘We know we’re going to have a major wind event tonight at about 11 o’clock that’s going to last until Thursday. We’re doing everything we can to wrap our arms around this fire to be able to prevent a potential of those strong gusty Santa Ana winds, pushing this fire, rekindling a lot of the fire and blowing embers a mile to two miles down range,’ Assistant Chief Jaime Moore with Los Angeles Fire said.
That is what makes these high winds so dangerous.
A massive new fire could start anywhere downwind of the existing fires, and it can happen at any time of the night or day.
So let us keep those living in California in prayer, because the next 72 hours are going to be immensely stressful.
If the fires were heading toward my home, I don’t know if I could sleep. When high winds are howling, these fires can move at lightning speed, and some Californians have had to evacuate so rapidly that they have literally lost everything…
Painter Wade Hoefer returned to his home at the Soda Rock Winery on Tuesday only to find his neighborhood in the heart of wine country was gone.
‘It’s just ashes,’ the 71-year-old artist-in-residence said. ‘I lost my whole life there. All I have is my clothes on my back’.
Could you imagine if that happened to you?
It is being reported that more than 20 million California residents are potentially in danger from the wildfires at this moment. Nobody knows exactly where the current fires are heading next, and nobody knows exactly where the next fires will start.
But what we do know is that the “devil winds” are coming, and that they will be extremely powerful for the next 72 hours…
Santa Ana winds blowing between 50 and 70 mph with isolated gusts up to 80 mph in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains are expected to arrive late Tuesday and last through Thursday evening, forecasters say. The predicted wind speeds prompted the National Weather Service to issue an extreme red flag warning, cautioning the public of high potential for “very rapid fire spread, long range spotting and extreme fire behavior with any new fire ignitions.”
In essence, for the next three days Californians will be dealing with near hurricane-force winds as massive wildfires rage all around them.
It truly will be 72 hours of hell, and let us hope that the destruction caused by these horrific fires can somehow be minimized.
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Fuck California.
During the rainy season next year. Either show up for forest clearing or have your Fire Insurance go up.
People with 10 million dollar homes will be assessed more. So you may have to sub contract more people to do the clearing for you.
Or opt to have your insurance rates go way up.
You are delirious. You sound like the moron who bitched cause they couldn’t find a plane in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Californians are not going to hell, they’re already there. Judgement day has come early for them.
Reagans library is next!
https://apnews.com/64fdb75d7e434722bd0229e1b458eebc
Funny how in WWII we managed to conduct 1,000-bomber raids to murder hundreds of thousands of White German civilians but can’t scrape up 50 aerial water tankers to put out a few fires in OUR country. I wonder (((how))) that works.
You are clueless. You have zero idea what is involved in fighting large wildfires.
Yeah, having 50 water tankers dropping water on these fires wouldn’t help at all. DA
OK, so who put out all the fires, you did, Swimwear?
good song about a famous fire in the mountains in montana–
it’ll give you an idea about the way fire is a dangerous opponent–
And we should care because???????????????????????????????????
This is nothing new. I grew up in southern California in the 50s and 60s and we always had these seasonal fires. People worked together to keep them away from their homes. Controlled burns were common to lower the risk of infernal s.
What is new is mismanagement of the habitat, building homes in high risk fire areas and power blackouts that cut off water resources for fighting the fires.
Stupid is as stupid does, and a new generation of people that are out of touch with nature.
So sad to watch this.
Tbird says “ So sad to watch this.”.
I am finding I have no fucks to give re these fires. Stupid is as stupid does, and the results are now being seen.
Guess we shouldn’t piss off Big Red
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHEusBG20c
Maybe California should hold back a few of the billions they’re spending on green technology and illegals and use the money for infrastructure repair like burying the damn lines so they don’t fall and cause fires.
Maybe they’re trying to keep the illegals out by just lighting the whole state on fire. Whatever works.
You got it from the horse’s mouth a couple of days ago, since you don’t believe me, LLPOH said it would cost ~$250Billion. America does not work that way, it’s act first and make corrections through the courts. Keep dreaming about burying the lines across 25 miles of mountains. Shit, the folks who constructed the I-14 had a heck of a time and asked JFK if maybe they could use nukes.
They finally got it done with dynamite. Take a look, it is a crooked route. Now imagine going in a straight line digging trenches in the mountains. You know what they said? I would take 1000 years to bury the lines. Stop with the fucking screeching about burying the lines. They have worked fine for years. It’s arson and sabotage along with the weather and plain bad juju from all the negative Nelllies cursing California.
EC – sorry, replied before I saw the post. Yup, they claim $250 billion to bury all the lines. So it ain’t happening. It may be cheaper to require everyone move out of those areas.
There’s no reasoning with KaD, we need to take other measures:
Has California lost the mandate of Heaven?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/has-california-lost-mandate-heaven
Since we seem to have lost the love of man, we must be on the right track:
How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
The cost of burying all the lines is reportedly $250 billion.
Perhaps just providing a larger swath through the more densely forested areas would help.
It would keep the high voltage lines a safer distance away from the potential danger and also create a firebreak in the forest.
Yes, it would mean clear-cutting a lot of trees, but the alternative doesn’t seem to be saving many trees either…
Can’t we move some of these fires out to DC?
So you want dumpster fires and wildfires. Great.
You can have firefighting capabilities and equipment, buried electrical lines and well maintained infrastructure or 50 million illegal immigrants feeding at the trough, but you cannot have both.
Choices were made.
every able bodied male illegal should be put on the front lines fighting these fires,along w/every able bodied male “homeless” guy–
Isn’t that how we ended up with Little China?
This is so unfair. I understand your debate but colorizing a situation brought about by naked greed when Pete Wilson approved turning over a public utility to a bunch of interstate hooligans bent on robbing the people of California to the tune of $38 Billion. And then having a bunch of out of state kibitzing kooks blaming California residents for the wildfires and for the utilities being on the ropes just to gloat and justify their hatred of immigrants.
Thanks to god that Governor Gray Davis took action to stop the Bush buddy Texas mafia that was hell bent on destroying California then. I am not aware of who can fight the new gang bangers commenting above who are openly hoping to see California die the death of a thousand firestorms. That is so ungodly to wish strangers such evil.
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Europe has some strict environmental laws and restrictions. Just because California has similar -although not so stringent – laws regarding air quality and hazardous chemicals, the neanderthals call it the left coast, communists and all sorts of names with 5 minute hate sessions against Gavin Newsom. If it wasn’t for California, you morons would still be sending smoke signals instead of Instagram pics. We’re still getting people from back east who don’t know better than to shit in the street.
Seems there’s more to the fires than the usual suspects. Believe it was Mark who pointed out the burned buildings and the untouched trees and other vegetation. DEW. Then, there are lots of fires that are set by arsonists, and if there was a goal of establishing terror, those fires would fit the bill.
There are also way more people in the state, and those people are taking over and moving into areas that are prone to fires.
As to people from back east who shit in the streets, are all the street people in CA from NY and other east coast states? Why would they be there? It couldn’t be because CA makes it real cozy for them, now would it? Seems the CA politicians are bending over backwards to accommodate illegals and letting the infrastructure of the state go down the tubes.
As to those stringent environmental laws, seems candles are toxic by CA standards.
California puts cancer warnings on coffee…
https://www.businessinsider.com/california-cancer-warnings-coffee-2018-4
They put cancer warnings on everything but vajajays. Meanwhile, the flyover tards are still using lead straws.
who are you calling flyover tards?
Mine is labelled “too hot to handle.”
Radioactive?
Nobody appreciates you like I do.
I was hoping Arnold would be able to get back into place via Terminator’s Skynet and fix all of it now that Elon Musk has the time travel stuff figured out.
What? He doesn’t???
Sadly enough, Arnie was a shill for the Pete Wilson crowd. He’s still popular but his new movie isn’t doing so well.
i don’t know how feasible it is but it seems that with the massive losses the state would consider having more of the foam diaper material available–
private firefighters sometimes apply it to the homes of the wealthy & from what i understand it keeps them from catching fire–
Those firefighters are awesome!
http://www.scancal.org/airattack/
https://twitter.com/LACoFDPIO?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor