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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Typical Globlist
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 07:47:27 -0800
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:52:18 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:45:34 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:18:15 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:36:08 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 1/19/2025 4:49 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> The proposition that radiant heat generated by one burning would set off
>>>>>> an adjacent house is pretty dumb. Fire codes are written to make sure
>>>>>> that houses aren't vulnerable in that way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In that case, what spread the fire?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>Embers can fly up to 20 km depending on fuel and weather conditions, and 
>>>>during high winds fire breaks are useless.
>>>>
>>>>Observe embers from this doorbell cam: 
>>>><https://www.instagram.com/abc7marccr/reel/DEny6FGSX1f/>
>>
>>Those little sparks should not set houses on fire. 
>>
>>>
>>>I don't doubt embers could have spread the original fires. What's
>>>puzzling is how the hell could they have got massive and out of
>>>control in the first place.
>>
>>No puzzle: dry wind and lots of fuel.
>
>In that picture you posted, there were substantial patches of unharmed
>vegitation right among the ashes of countless buildings. It doesn't
>make sense.

It's simple. The most flammible, and the hottest burning, and the
closest things, were other houses.

I wonder if they will rebuild the same way.