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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[pantasma]

2) There are some things we can do to decrease the likelihood of severe damage, but there's only so much one can do when the fires are fuelled so much by weather. Where I grew up, Fire Season is a thing -- and it's not in high summer. Since we recently had two major firestorms only 3 years apart, everyone start getting really antsy when fire season rolls around, and we jump quietly from foot to foot wringing our hands waiting for the first rains.

Some neighborhoods have started hiring goats herds to come eat the "excess" undergrowth. But they keep cutting away all the ice plant, and other super-high-water-content plants in favor of houses made of wood and plaster, which burns. I think they recently imposed a stipulation that you're building a new roof/reroofing, you have to make it with slake, which are those asphalt-looking tiles. It means you're less likely to go up if ash lands ON the house, but if it flies up under the eaves, you're still screwed.

For history, at least in my area there weren't fires worth mentioning until about a decade ago. There's been one every few years, since. That first one is even still "immortalized" in the local natural history museum, with articles written during those couple weeks, maps showing the spread and control, burn rates, damage done, etc. They're taking water restrictions more seriously, too, but I don't know how much that affects the outcome...

Other than that, there's not a whole hell of a lot we can do but continue fining people who flick cigarettes out their windows, fail to properly put out camp fires, etc.

tl;dr
It's a lot harder to adapt to the land, or adapt the land, to prevent fires than it is for floods. It's more like avoiding an earthquake: you can take steps to prepare yourself and try to limit the damage done. It's an inevitable eventuality that you learn to live with.