I are evacuated… Dammit

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Rolando wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
You may know that Santa Barbara is chock full of eucalyptus trees. A friend of mine who lives there told me that during the last big fire they had in SB, the eucalyptus trees were actually exploding.

High oil content? I remember gathering Christmas trees in Jan for bonfires-once that pine oil lit up...
Yes, I believe that's the reason.

Eucalyptus trees smell great, but they burn like the dickens.

[wave rider]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
To all who find themselves affected by these fires: Stay safe.

To wave rider: Maybe time to consider purchasing a MBP?

Got a Spaced Out Gray MBP16 I9 a couple months ago. Really like it!

[SteveG]

From a letter from a friend near San Fran California:

The fires have gotten worse overnight. They are spreading with 0% containment. There are 40,000 acres burned, up from about 20K yesterday. About 22K people evacuated so far and I just heard that number should double in the next few days. The air quality today is much worse -- no surprise. I'm holding out hope that the fire won't actually come this far. Of course, this is hard to predict. Once fires start jumping from house to house...? I don't know. Normally, we shrouded in fog this time of year, but we have a heat wave. I hear we now have air tankers finally onboard. Up until today, there was too much smoke for planes to fly over the fires. Oh the irony.

And, naturally, we still have to worry about Covid.

[AllGold]

Hope everything turns out ok.

[RAMd®d]

the eucalyptus trees were actually exploding.


That's something a lot of people don't know about them.

Not only to they catch fire and burn rapidly, but they often explode, sending embers everywhere, over great distances.

Cal Fire lost a contractor and his helo yesterday while making waterdrops.
Two squads of deputies from our SO left to help with mandatory evacuations in other counties under a mutual aid agreement.

They're going into very rural territories to tell people:

you must evacuate, it's mandatory
this is your only warning
we will not come back for you
there is no help coming

It's a little heartbreaking because some of those warned will.not.leave. and will not be evicted/evactuated.

As deputies clear the area and RTB, they will warn those they encounter if at all possible, a second time, and then they're gone.

[pRICE cUBE]

Dang, hope the best for your situation going forward.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

numbered wrote:
Eucalyptus is what caused the devastating Oakland fires in 93 or so. It started a pogrom against them in most public lands in Norcal. Thousands have been taken out in Bay Area open spaces. But there are still many on private property.

There was talk of doing the same in SB after the last big fire, but I don't know if anything's actually come of it.

Although I understand the benefit of doing so, it would be a shame. One of my favorite things about SB is the ever-present smell of eucalyptus. The merest whiff of a eucalyptus tree instantly transports me back to my time at UCSB, one of the best times of my life.

[bfd]

The far southwest corner has escaped so far… but there are at least two and a half more months of opportunity. And the current fires are almost all natural in nature. Can't wait for the winds to start blowing and kookbiscuits get rolling …

[Kate]

Wave Rider, where are you? We live in Felton, we left Wednesday, now down in Seaside.

Kate