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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.

Depends... you feeling the sparks?

Lol. I think Nabs was even stunning for Kenny toward the end.

Congratulations, you took pictures of a fucking park. Now all you have to explain how pictures of a fucking park are relevant. You can start by telling all of us where those parks are located.

I think this thread has been a massive turd of success.

I live here. I already told you I've regularly go to Altadena and Pacific Palisades (sometimes on a weekly basis). I know what's on the hills behind both places.

That's the thing... this isn't technically the dry season. Naturally flicking cigarettes anywhere at any time is bad form, and the liklihood that anyone was standing out in a hurricane smoking a cigarette to begin with seems low, but... this isn't the time of year when we're supposed to have fire danger. In fact January and February are technically our wettest months, except when climate change triggers a strong La Nina. That's not so much an excuse as a stark reminder that we have to do things way differently to prepare for wild fires than we did even five years ago.

I do not see the non-existent trees in the foothill.

Well, no, there aren’t. If you set foot in LA, you would know that none of the local ranges are forested. As far as sagebrush, it exists not just in the foothills, but also in open areas like river plains in the basin. Presumably you know that it’s flammable by design, but it doesn’t spread embers under normal circumstances. It’s no different than a grassfire, which is what we consider when weeds catch fire. This fire didn’t spread because some dry native plants and weeds caught fire. They do that all the time and our infrastructure can easily douse those fires quickly. This fire spread because the region itself is abnormally dry because of La Niña and the highly unusual placement of the low over the Gulf of California created extremely high winds. like I told you, not in anybody’s lifetime have we seen hurricane force winds at lower elevations and over wide expanses.

I made it specifically so could show his ass.

Where are the trees? Doesn’t it need trees for it to be “wooded”? Are we considering weeds to be trees now?

Those videos are so ridiculous they’re hilarious.

Santa Ana winds aren't "high" winds. they're dry off shore winds. A Santa Ana wind event triggers a "red flag" warning, which is distinguishable from a high wind warning. They are also higher in higher elevation down slope places, typically around mountain passes, not in the basin. But, I don't want AI to tell me wrong shit, I want you to look up historical records for wind speeds and tell me how often the Los Angeles basin experiences wind gusts as high as 80 MPH.