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  1. 1 minute ago, The Ace of Aces said:

    How is Ohio State not going to be #1 preseason? They return the best offensive player (Smith) and arguable best defensive player (Downs) in college football. 

    how many super bowls did the Chargers win with LT and Shawn Merriman?

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  2. 38 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    the woman who tried to help steal an election and rob millions of Americans of their vote, despite no evidence of fraud? 

    she's either too stupid to hold any elected office, or she tried to assist in overturning a democratic election. 

    Next

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  3. 11 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Would an Ozone machine help?

    https://a.co/d/6pjeSWP

    It might. There's a crew at my house right now doing a deep cleaning with HEPA vaccums and other shit designed for smoke damage. If smell still remains, then that might be our next move. Our garage is currently packed full of large trash bags with pillows, stuffed animals, lampshades, etc. There's a laundry place down the road that does Ozone cleaning for those types of items, so we'll be taking them there 

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  4. I'm very grateful to still have a house, but man the aftermath is taking a toll. I dropped off 30+ shirts and 10 suits at the dry cleaners and wearing them today, i STILL smell like a campfire. 

    There's also a lot of concern in the area over the toxic ash that spread across the region from the thousands of homes, garages, and cars that burned. Although the AQI seems fine, that apparently doesn't account for all the toxic volatile compounds that have blanketed the area. 

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  5. 20 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    1) just a friendly reminder:  Most of CA forest land is under U.S. Forest Service control. So, 5 or 6 years ago, we had this moronic cocksucker as POTUS, and he talked about CA "mismanagement" of forest land, which was actually under HIS control.

    2) @Foosters I'm sorry...I know a little about you, but I don't know where you live?  What part of town are you in?

    3) as some of you know, I live in N. San Diego County, near Camp Pendleton.  Pendleton does control burns quite often. Here's one example: https://www.pendleton.marines.mil/Wildland-Fire-Information-Prevention/#:~:text=A firefighter with the Camp,fire season with prescribed burn

     

    I'm in Pasadena. Northeast, near Hastings Ranch, close to Altadena actually. The fire's origin was almost due north of us and not that far away, but the winds blowing SW took the fire into Altadena. Our home was about 8 blocks from the closest home that burned And it was the only house on the street that went. Imagine that.

     

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  6. 6 minutes ago, Balcones said:

    Huh? Tim Kaine and the democrat senate have already voted that cheating on your spouse doesn’t not disqualify you from office. They actually approved getting blow jobs from interns wile IN the office is acceptable.

    ah, here's the pedo defender showing up to defend sexual assault!

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  7. One last question:

    When doing the controlled burning, should they be operating under the assumption that they will need to account for 80-100 mph winds that toss flaming embers "thousands of feet" in the air? This McDonald's is just a few blocks from my house.

     

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  8. 7 minutes ago, statsman said:

    Have you not realized that the LA wildfire is a huge disaster? That fire prevention and mitigation is as big of a failure as the levees in New Orleans during Katrina?

     
    oh, hell. Strike that. Y’all convinced me. This disaster was unforeseeable, unmanageable and unpreventable. All government offices involved did a great job. 

    you're the one telling us that controlled burns would have saved the day. burden's on you to show some proof to back that up.  I've yet to see any actual expert opine that it would have made a difference with these fires, short of just control burning the entire swath of San Gabriel mountains that runs from Santa Clarita to Big Bear.

    CALIFORNIA PUBLIC LANDS ACT THAT WILL BETTER PROTECT THE SAN GABRIEL  MOUNTAINS, ADDRESS EQUITY ISSUES | Sierra Club

    I guess you could just control burn the entire bottom border (green and black line). Given the serpentine nature of the mountain range, I'd says you're looking at a track over 100 miles. And that's just the San Gabriels. What about the San Jacinto mountain range that also runs along cities and towns? The Santa Ana range? We're talking hundreds of miles of foothill communities at the base of these mountains. 

    Hundreds of miles of this:

    San Gabriel Mountains Hiking Guide | Outdoor SoCal

    Is that pretty similar to fixing a levee?

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  9. https://wilg.github.io/la-fire-maps/images/1050010040277300.html

    take a look at this image. See how the entire mountain range that abuts the town is a lighter brown? That's because it all burned. I'm not the "controlled burn" expert like many of you here, but can someone explain how controlled burns in the San Gabriels would have prevented the fire driven by 100 mph winds from reaching the homes? 

     

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