Comment by marcosdumay

Comment by marcosdumay 14 hours ago

It's so interesting to see the people in awe of that "fire hurricane" video in L.A....

We had a way more intense drought than they in my city last year (theirs are not that intense). We also had 50 km/h winds. We also had higher temperatures... And all of those to levels that we never saw before. Also, we have more trees in our cities. We had new "fire hurricane" videos every week (normally, every other year somebody films one).

And we had to evacuate dozens of homes, luckily no one was destroyed and people could return 2 months later.

taeric 14 hours ago

It rather blunts your point when 50km/h winds are a far cry from 160km/h winds.

Specifically, I'm now questioning if your drought was actually more intense. Not exactly sure how you measure that one.

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vantassell 14 hours ago

You’re comparing apples to oranges.

A Santa Ana wind is extremely dry and this one hit 100kmh (not 50). And it hasn’t really rained for 8 months (since May 2024). And we had a very wet winter last year, so there’s extra growth to fuel any fire. And finally, there’s 10 million people live in LA County, it’s a target rich space.

Please let me know where else is having the same sort of fire without destroying homes.

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marcosdumay 12 hours ago

The 50 km/h was sustained, not peak, but ok, I don't think we reached 100.
We have 7 million people living around, and yeah, only 6 months without a single drop of rain (19X days, where I don't remember what X was). Fire often destroys some homes, we got luck last year.

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ewhanley 11 hours ago

It's not a competition. Both can be sights that people view in awe. Are you "Four Yorkshiremen-ing" wildfires?

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marcosdumay 8 hours ago

Look, the annual fire disasters in California are not a normal thing.
If people just point out it's not normal, people complain that nowhere else has fire so nobody else understands the problem. If people point out similar places, looks like it's "Four Yorkshiremen-ing" (whatever that is). So, yeah, let it keep burning, whatever.

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