In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quote:Isn't it easier to just say they're racist?
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:My old roommate had a funny saying - you can tell where a European is from by whom they hate. Europe has been contested land for centuries. There are literally centuries of wars in its history - one group fighting another. Everybody's got a (historical) vested interest in hating a few somebodies.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not really sure what was worse for them, the difference in class or the ethnicity.
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
I take it that your fathers were brothers?
Yes, they were. My dad was the older brother. And there was another brother and sister between them.Quote:
Oh? What holiday is that? Well, whatever it is, I hope you have a warm, sunny, relaxing holiday!
It is BC day in BC. And it is indeed nice, warm and sunny. I've been out for a walk and back.
I suspected you were not celebrating the 73 years since Hiroshima.
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Quote:News reported that smoke from CA wildfires has reached NYC. Maybe I should look at the sky sometime, too.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
So earlier today out of curiosity I went to the CalFire website and totaled up the acres burned in California to date (just looking at fires over 2,000 acres). It was over 550,000 acres. That's a lot of acres.
When I left work, there was a new purple-brown cloud in the sky, this time coming from the east. As of 8 hours ago it was a 4,000 acre fire in OC and raging out of control. And during the day the Mendocino fire grew from 273,664 acres this AM to 283,000 acres by the evening.
My current rough estimate is now 564,000 acres burned, up from earlier in the day.
There are 16 major wildfires in California today.
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
I can't imagine this is a new thing. 300 or 400 years ago there must have been unrestrained fires in CA, and Pilgrims were sure to have seen the smoke. Just wouldn't have known it was from 3,000 miles away.
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Funny how there was never any fires like this when I grew up, but there seems to be one or two every year out there now.
Yup. I'm sure pilgrims saw this exact thing 300 or 400 years ago. lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I don't remember the fires in California being this bad either when I was a child.
And I am sure the Native Americans saw wild fires too.
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The entire Southwest is drying. There are some people who think we're entering a megadrought. Speaking of megadroughts, that's what's thought to have done in the Anasazi civilization.
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
The entire Southwest is drying. There are some people who think we're entering a megadrought. Speaking of megadroughts, that's what's thought to have done in the Anasazi civilization.
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
A drought on an ancient civilization could indeed make them go extinct.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I don't remember the fires in California being this bad either when I was a child.
And I am sure the Native Americans saw wild fires too.
I was being a bit sarcastic JSF's way there. Without saying it, he's throwing a bit of climate change denial in our non-politicized thread we got here. It's an issue I don't care to debate much since none of us have any true facts.
There were wild fires before, but none of them for the most part got out of control like what we see in California these days. Climate change being a factor or not at all, it is still a man made problem.
Decades ago, tax dollars went toward "beautification" projects where we were paying people to "clean up" the forests of all leaves and other debris. Unfortunately, we're the only animals that do such a thing, and the trees knew what they were doing, evolutionarily speaking. We screwed up the entire habitat when we did that, and now when there is a fire all of that "debris" that held in a ton of moisture is gone and there's literally nothing to stop the fires from spreading.
Fires almost never got out of control like what we see today because the land used to be so wet that they'd just die out on their own.
I actually wonder if this could have also contributed to the constant drought conditions in California as well. One would assume that when it used to rain in California that these natural lands would hold in a lot of the moisture for long periods of time that now would evaporate overnight.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I don't remember the fires in California being this bad either when I was a child.
And I am sure the Native Americans saw wild fires too.
I was being a bit sarcastic JSF's way there. Without saying it, he's throwing a bit of climate change denial in our non-politicized thread we got here. It's an issue I don't care to debate much since none of us have any true facts.
There were wild fires before, but none of them for the most part got out of control like what we see in California these days. Climate change being a factor or not at all, it is still a man made problem.
Decades ago, tax dollars went toward "beautification" projects where we were paying people to "clean up" the forests of all leaves and other debris. Unfortunately, we're the only animals that do such a thing, and the trees knew what they were doing, evolutionarily speaking. We screwed up the entire habitat when we did that, and now when there is a fire all of that "debris" that held in a ton of moisture is gone and there's literally nothing to stop the fires from spreading.
Fires almost never got out of control like what we see today because the land used to be so wet that they'd just die out on their own.
I actually wonder if this could have also contributed to the constant drought conditions in California as well. One would assume that when it used to rain in California that these natural lands would hold in a lot of the moisture for long periods of time that now would evaporate overnight.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah, I know. I was also trying to throw back that we were here first and saw fires caused by lighting and such.
I seem to remember those projects too and getting rid of underbrush and such.
You might be on to something there Jack. But in the US today that is too progressive for everyone.
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