I love when 99ers destroy newbs It's so beautiful Yeah H-town has ALWAYS had flooding, but it's been historically worse and that goes for EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD THAT HAS WEATHER RELATED ISSUES. Yeah, everybody in America isn't going to move to bunkers in New Mexico. @Os Trigonum
https://www.livescience.com/kincade-fire-diablo-winds-video.html?jwsource=cl Wind map of Santa Ana and Diablo Winds (won't embed) -- interesting watching the acceleration through the valleys.
My niece and nephew are in Sonoma County. Their whole city got evacuated, but eventually the fires near their city got under control and they were allowed to go back. This keeps happening every year. They'll turn off power in large areas to prevent near fires from starting, but the fires start again anyway. No damage to their house, but good lord is it stressful. These two kids have already dealt with enough.
2020... _______ Wildfires have destroyed more than 60,000 acres across three states and are spreading rapidly https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/13/us/wildfires-california-oregon-colorado/index.html
I was thinking about this during my workout and I see some flaws. It's pretty obvious that the people in this film are Luddites and are disdainful of technology in general. That's great because it informs their solutions, but to sell this to people better, a merged solution involving some technology would be more appropriate. Add in a brush hog to expedite the path-making for the goats rather than throwing logs or plywood on the stickers and manually trimming them down would go so much faster (one of the guys even says the grunt work is the path making). Then implement a gating system that would allow you to release the goats into the proper 'cells' of overgrown areas to maximize goat efficiency. The goal for our world, when you look at sustainable solutions, is to take advantage of existing technology while using ages-old techniques (like goats) that help sustainability. Brush Hog: By the way, the youtube channel this piece is on is great but the videos all have that 'modern society and technology is the enemy' vibe. I love the ideas that they espouse like sustainable natural gardens and urban gardens, but at my age I realize that mixing in technology for efficiency's sake makes much more sense.
The people in the video aren't a part of the channel, that being said yes the people who run that channel are eco hippies who focus on green alternatives. I don't think you're going to able to get a brush hog around the majority of forested terrain, but yeah point taken technology has its place, the question is how much is smart in what places, and at what point are green alternatives smarter. My view is that we are in an age that has put technological advancement above all with absurdly little regards for the greater picture - the health and vitality of our planet and it's inhabitants. I'm all for the movements of living simpler, more sustainable, and having a decision-making process that includes much greater respect and thoughtfulness for the health of our environment. At the same time, technology has its place and if managed properly, is absolutely going to be for the betterment of civilization.
We agree then. I watched a few videos from that channel and they don’t have the same people but the subject matter is all similar. Living with less, but most of their subjects are very idealistic rather than realistic. To each their own, but I need my internet, air conditioning and amazon, although I can live with three day shipping. Oh, I do think you can get the brush hog in if you work your way in like pac-man. Wakka wakka wakka
Yep. Woke up to a weird orange colored light coming through the window this morning. It was just the sunrise amplified through the smoke. We're a good distance away, but Pasadena CA is just filled with smoke right now. There's little flecks of ash coming down everywhere. I understand what "Sweet Brown" meant when she said that she woke up and thought that someone was barbequing. It smells just like that. Gonna reach 100° today. Not a fan, but just happy the fires aren't close.
For the chicken littles out there, mark 2070 on your calendars! https://phys.org/news/2020-08-california-stage-future.html
I’ll be 97 so I guess I won’t make the future lottery for the future planetary exodus ships. I guess my wife and I will dress in our silver future Sunday best and smile at the blasting off future Dragon-X rocket ships while giant future waves engulf us.
