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Wilderness / The Weather Meanwhile in California
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:02 PM
This image was taken on August 30 by the "backward (northward)-viewing camera of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite." That's a big fire.
- NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team
- (Click to Enlarge)
h/t: the Register
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@2: Charming young man, wears a tie. I think he's friends with the Anderson boys from down the street. You know, Charles and Tammy's boys? They went to school with your daughter.
He was an intern or something and now he does reporting.
He was an intern or something and now he does reporting.
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We were in LAX yesterday, and as the plane arrived the smell of smoke was overwhelming in the cabin; the pilot had to reassure us that it wasn't the plane burning, but the wildfires. The entire area outside the windows was brown with smoke. On our way through the week before, it was crystal-clear; you could see the entire valley for many miles.
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I wish people would stop being houses where they will be threatened annually by wildfires, hurricanes, floods, etc.
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Satellite photos can be a little confusing because they're so far away. Mountains are flattened and detail is invisible. For a few landmarks, see this similar picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_…
The crinkled dark-green area near the upper right is the 20-30 mile arc of heavy brush in steep canyons that is burning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_…
The crinkled dark-green area near the upper right is the 20-30 mile arc of heavy brush in steep canyons that is burning.
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I can confirm that living in the San Gabriel Valley right now is like living in an ashtray. I've never had so many nosebleeds in my life.
@6, yeah, I hate being a house too. Find a plot of land in the US that isn't threatened by some sort of natural disaster. I've lived all over, and if it isn't one thing, it's another.
@6, yeah, I hate being a house too. Find a plot of land in the US that isn't threatened by some sort of natural disaster. I've lived all over, and if it isn't one thing, it's another.
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@8, a point of reference is that Catalina Island is 21 miles long, 8 miles wide at the widest point.
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Boo hoo hoo....rich people with acres of land getting their houses burned (so they don't have to pay the mortgage on their depreciating property).
And guess what? They all left before the fire to their 2nd or 3rd home in Hawaii while you breathe the fumes of their insulation.
Boo hoo hoo....rich people with acres of land getting their houses burned (so they don't have to pay the mortgage on their depreciating property).
And guess what? They all left before the fire to their 2nd or 3rd home in Hawaii while you breathe the fumes of their insulation.
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I've been breathing the smoke for the last three days now - all the way in Colorado. Regardless of what Will says, it's a big fire.
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@12 Are you serious? You know that this fire isn't in Malibu, right? Rich people don't live where these fires are.
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Will, this is in the top 10 fires in California. Yes, fires in very rural environments will grow to be much bigger because there's nothing around, and not much reason to stop it.
@12 you only think they are rich people's homes because the news only mentions "million dollar homes" and loves to report from the big-ass homes. As a matter of fact, it's a HUGE brouhaha here that the local news has really been non-existent on the coverage, particularly in the first few days. If it's malibu/celebrity homes, they interrupt their programming. For normal people, not so much.
@12 you only think they are rich people's homes because the news only mentions "million dollar homes" and loves to report from the big-ass homes. As a matter of fact, it's a HUGE brouhaha here that the local news has really been non-existent on the coverage, particularly in the first few days. If it's malibu/celebrity homes, they interrupt their programming. For normal people, not so much.
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Will, I think they could really use you in SoCal right now to piss all over their tiny little fire and put it out.
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Back when Will was in the Dustbowl, he told the people dying of dust pneumonia that he'd seen worse in the Serengeti.
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@14 - it's only one county.
Cali has had multi-county fires in recent memory - this century.
Wake me when Ventura and the Inland Empire are burning as well.
Cali has had multi-county fires in recent memory - this century.
Wake me when Ventura and the Inland Empire are burning as well.
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Boy, those canyons really act like wind tunnels, feeding the fires, don't they? Horrific. My heart goes out to the people living in the path of the wildfires. Terrifying stuff.
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