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One was empty do to maintenance. It's inopportune, but it's an unavoidable part of maintaining a resevoir. Yes, it literally does. Equipment failures have not been mentioned as having a bearing on the firefight. You made that up. The Sacramento River / San Joaquin River Delta is 400 miles from Los Angeles. Also, the City of Los Angeles gets the vast majority of its water from the Owens Valley / Los Angeles Aqueduct. Not relevant.

Exactly, and do you know why? It's because starting a fire within 50 miles of a large settlement is a recipe for disaster. Prescribed fires are a common occurrence in the Sierra Nevadas, but they're never done near any of the major cities that border it, like Fresno, Carson City or Reno. You can't do controlled burns in the mountains surrounding Los Angeles because the areas are too close to settlements. So what next, genius?

How do you control burn in an urban environment?

You're misrepresenting what was stated at the time to benefit your already bankrupt argument. Climate change has always been about changes in weather patterns, and the engine has always been the warming of our global atmosphere. No one was predicting that something was going to absolutely happen, just that change might appear in the form of any of those predictions. Also, the point isn't whether or not these climate changes are abnormal for the planet or have never happened before - there are plenty of historical records in the planets on makeup (like geological strata and tree rings) that document how the planet will respond to to catastrophic natural events. What's important is that, this time, that catastrophic natural event is human - we can directly tie our emissions to changes in the planet's functioning processes. Droughts occurred long before the industrial age, so did hurricanes, and the record shows that there were periods where the global average temperature was higher and lower in that time. That indicated that the earth can adjust to the situation and adapt to bring the temperature back down. But it doesn't account for how man's intervention with greenhouse emissions will be counteracted.

This is my thread and I say it hasn't. You're wrong; let me tell you how. 1. The water system was not designed to handle a fire line - it was built for an intended to supply domestic water (for indoor plumbing, irrigation and drinking water) with enough volume to handle supply for spot fires from local outlets (fire hydrants). It was not intended to supply high volumes of water over multiple outlets as would be needed to man a fire line. It would be impossible to engineer a system that would be able to generate that much water that quickly through an underground conveyance. That is why modern wildfire fighting relies heavily on air drops. 2. The downsizing you refer to was not insignificant and did have an effect on the fire response, however... it was for support staff, not for the firefighters themselves. There was not a shortage of firefighting personnel because of the budget cuts, so it has no bearing on this discussion. 3. Most importantly, you still have no idea what fueled the fire. We are not surrounded by forests - the shrubbery that exists on the undeveloped perimeters of the fire ravaged neighborhoods is a low lying native plants with the solitary tree here and there. All of that is drought tolerant within reason, meaning that none of it requires copious amounts of water to survive. However, it wasn't the native plants that primarily fueled the fire, it was weeds, and this is where climate change poses the problem: When weather patterns change, certain areas get less or more water in any given period against historical averages. While not as dire, winters with excessive amounts of water pose nearly as much of a hazard as winters under drought because the soil is not generally designed to hold that amount of water. In this situation, a bloom of weeds will develop as Mother Nature's way of protecting the soil. Weeds are generally thought of as being bad because they're usually non-native, fast-growing vegetation that can crowd out existing native vegetation. In a health ecosystem, weeds don't take root in appreciable amounts because there isn't room for them. In ecosystems that are under stress, particularly after multiple years of drought, native vegetation doesn't have the resources to maintain its coverage. This leads to large dead spots which are quickly filled in with each breeze and passing bird by non-native seeds. Once water though rain deluges is reintroduced to the soil, those seeds rapidly grow into weeds which offer some short term protection for the soil. However, weeds are not long lasting and require more resources than are typically provided for the region. Particular with non-native grasses, the weeds will die out almost as quickly as the've grown once the rainy season ends, leaving millions of acres of dry vegetation in a very short amount of time (as in days). It would be physically impossible for human intervention to remove all of this dead non-native vegetation in a year, let alone the few months between the end of spring and start of fall (when the fire season tradionally starts). The only way to get rid of the dead vegetation that quickly is though fire, which is also a natural part of our ecosystem. When the ecosystem is stressed by climate change, naturally occurring fires will be pronounced and more intense, making it more difficult to contain those fires to the areas where they are supposed to occur.

Yeah. You really have to become a different quarterback when playoffs roll around.

I was pulling for Darnold too.

That was mean of me. She just needs to maybe shave, definitely shower and cut back on the eyeshadow and she’d be a real looker.

I’m just now realizing Scooby Doo kind of normalized blackface.

Get rid of all the jitneys and make lazy bitches like you walk to their next trick.

And you can correlate the frequency of high wind events and the time of year they appear with climate change.

Look it up, sister. You’re the wikimistress.

Since the 1880’s, I believe. The majority of the heat and wind records have been in the past 30 years.

Cool. At any rate, they’re not anywhere close to the mean, and, yes, those winds were all climate change generated as well.

Was’sup girlfriend?

Who says I didn’t? I don’t ask questions I don’t already know the answer to.

So, despite promising it months ago, I’m ready to start up UEMB Survivor to commemorate the start of a not so new but equally troubling chapter in America. We got fires, we got a felon in the oval office, the world’s richest man might have completely lost his marbles, and, of course, Toonami is confounding us like always. I just want to say, I really appreciate everyone who participated last time. This game can sometimes feel like we’re running it by the seat of our pants because we are. It’s not as important that there is a winner as much as this is a place where each challenge is an opportunity to express yourself and to be as wicked or as sweet as your sense of humor will allow. I’ll be winding up throughout the week so expect some announcements peppered in as we move toward next weekend.

Looks like I chose wisely.

Kipling is a reconfigurable imperialist.

Delusional principles will fill you with almost as much satisfaction as diligent studiousness when you have a developmental disability.

I just came to see if G-man came back to gloat in this thread.

You might want to feed that hang over for 60 more days. Just to be safe, get preemptive dialysis.

Yes.

He wasn’t that ugly… just kind of dirty and strangely colorless.