5 thoughts on “Conditions “Ripe” for Wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma”
Grim photo’s, outlook and report in this morning’s Guardian. . . .
“Now ranchers are collecting their prized cattle with forklifts and making heartbreaking decisions about which of the injured must be euthanized. Local officials estimate there may be more than 10,000 livestock deaths linked to this disaster. Recovery will take years.”
“At the same time, the rising temperatures — largely driven by the burning of fossil fuels — are driving Texas toward a reality where the number of 100-plus degree days doubles by midcentury.”
If I were a God-fearing man I’d be fearing whatever it is they’ve done to piss her off
Image what those dead pine forests are going to look like when it finally gets away from us. There’s a disconnect in the public eye twixt grassfires and forest fires: most see them as the same, they are not. However, it makes for good illustration: when all those dead pines from Mt Shasta to Alaska and now into the boreal and around the top of the world get going that’s what it’s going to look like: a grassfire
Something old firefighters have noticed is it has changed behavior: it now jumps from house to house the way it used to jump from crown (treetop) to crown … often leaving the trees behind. Something we’re all familiar with though is an aeronautical term is IFR ~ I Follow Roads. So does fire … and houses, shops, etc. A wall of fire generating its own wind traveling seventy-five to a hundred miles an hour. Following roads
Hard to sympathize with a few dead cows when I think about what is when, not if …
The 20 years ago the local paper printed a picture of where a grass fire started along a semi-rural road. There were multiple V’s of windblown fires started by a truck dragging a sparking chain. We’d been warned about tossed cigarettes and pulling your car (with its super-hot exhaust system) off the road onto the very dry grass.
Grim photo’s, outlook and report in this morning’s Guardian. . . .
“Now ranchers are collecting their prized cattle with forklifts and making heartbreaking decisions about which of the injured must be euthanized. Local officials estimate there may be more than 10,000 livestock deaths linked to this disaster. Recovery will take years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/13/texas-wildfire-cattle-ranchers-climate-crisis
“At the same time, the rising temperatures — largely driven by the burning of fossil fuels — are driving Texas toward a reality where the number of 100-plus degree days doubles by midcentury.”
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4529404-climate-change-is-trapping-texans-in-an-arid-fortress-of-solitude-expert-says/
Ah, yes: SxSW, another of those events that have people flying in from all over. I used to think SxSW was great.
If I were a God-fearing man I’d be fearing whatever it is they’ve done to piss her off
Image what those dead pine forests are going to look like when it finally gets away from us. There’s a disconnect in the public eye twixt grassfires and forest fires: most see them as the same, they are not. However, it makes for good illustration: when all those dead pines from Mt Shasta to Alaska and now into the boreal and around the top of the world get going that’s what it’s going to look like: a grassfire
Something old firefighters have noticed is it has changed behavior: it now jumps from house to house the way it used to jump from crown (treetop) to crown … often leaving the trees behind. Something we’re all familiar with though is an aeronautical term is IFR ~ I Follow Roads. So does fire … and houses, shops, etc. A wall of fire generating its own wind traveling seventy-five to a hundred miles an hour. Following roads
Hard to sympathize with a few dead cows when I think about what is when, not if …
The 20 years ago the local paper printed a picture of where a grass fire started along a semi-rural road. There were multiple V’s of windblown fires started by a truck dragging a sparking chain. We’d been warned about tossed cigarettes and pulling your car (with its super-hot exhaust system) off the road onto the very dry grass.
https://images.hgmsites.net/lrg/how-hot-does-an-exhaust-system-get_100599843_l.jpg