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wood

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  1. Sen. Duckworth is an actual got damn hero. She would be a far better candidate than Hegseth, though I'm not suggesting she should be. She absolutely laid the wood to Hegseth, and summed it all up very well. Hegseth simply will not answer and/or cannot answer many of the questions being posed to him. That alone should be disqualifying.
  2. Yeah that really blew me away. Even if Guam is the only right answer, a truly qualified candidate would have certainly said more than that about it. Wowwwwww.
  3. Yep. So I figured ...
  4. Yeah, the post box alarm shower = best thing evarrr.
  5. Yeah I was gonna mention that earlier and forgot. Drops can be very hazardous to people on the ground, so there has to be a lot of coordination, making sure the drop areas are clear. Don't fuck around anywhere near the drop zone. Also, just saw this update re: the PP fire.
  6. Yeah I'm guessing there are second thoughts being had over that format decision. At least there should be.
  7. Yep, we definitely get winds that can be very problematic.
  8. This is a fantastic video. Really highlights the actual physical difficulties of fighting fires in those wind conditions and how the winds dramatically increase the fire spread. Watch those hose streams and how the wind just breaks them up. Basically the only thing that's changed is the look of the cars and how people dress ... and the increased number of homes and communities in the same area. Highly recommend.
  9. Right. What I read somewhere is that they were allowed to comply under the old rule, which isn't great imho.
  10. I, for one, fully welcome Rep. Crockett's use of the vernacular. It was perfectly appropriate and spot on. But y'all are missing the most important action in that exchange ... This is a declaration of war. Git it, girl.
  11. Man I'm got damn fucking sick of hearing the Rs fuck the "Biden administration bungled the exit from Afghanistan" chicken. Un fucking real. That shit was well and truly fucked by Trump before Biden even took over.
  12. My boys decided to go hang in Montreal for a couple of days after skiing in Vermont. Texted me this today. Exit of the Hairpin, next to the gs I sat in on Saturday in 2010 ...
  13. LOL yesterday I saw Elon's physique described as "Like a bag of milk".
  14. Weather Underground still shows wind from the west at 4 mph, but predicts them to be out of the north and increasing starting around 8 pm.
  15. Related to that ... one of the best firefighters I ever worked with is a lesbian. She was also the best rookie I ever helped to train. Bad ass chick with a BMF belt buckle. Hiked the entire Appalachian Trail before she became a firefighter. Alone. 0% of the time did I ever have to worry about her doing her job and having her shit together. No CR.
  16. Uh, yeah. Seriously impressive deployment of resources. And the fire still rolls along. Of course it's already been said, but many people out there need to understand that these conditions are historically extreme. This is a natural disaster. Like an earthquake or a hurricane, you're not stopping that. It stops when it stops. This fire will not be extinguished until conditions are favorable for it to be extinguished. We just need to be ready when the conditions favor us. Given the incredible resources being brought to bear, I believe we will be ready.
  17. That's pretty cool, but that's a helluva lot of water flowing all at once.
  18. Yeah I admire the desire to protect y'all's homes, and I get it. We've lived in our house for 23 years. It's the only house we've ever owned. We raised two boys in it and have improved it dramatically over the years ... but that's asking a lot from one untrained person with one 1.5" hose. At 100 psi, the hose & nozzle alone could kill you if it gets away from you. I concur with the idea of getting good insurance, doing your best to fireproof your home well in advance, getting your most important stuff and gtfo when the shit comes down, and then hoping for the best.
  19. That's what I was thinking. It certainly wouldn't help the firefighters any when they did show up, but I suppose it might help delay or prevent the house from igniting. Another problem is that it's really only going to wet the roof of the house, and that won't keep it from burning.
  20. Yeah that's what gives some people the impression that the firefighters aren't doing anything or are 'just watching it burn'. That's because in this situation they're simply trying to keep the fire from spreading, as best they can. In many cases that means 'deck-gunning' (spraying water from the turret-looking nozzle on top of the engine) the burning house from the street while spraying the surrounding exposures in an attempt to keep the fire from spreading to neighboring homes. Once that kind of operation is set up, there isn't much to do except monitor everything. At a normal house fire, you're going to get 4-10 fire trucks to start with, all dedicated to fighting the fire in that one house (depending on severity, etc), with everyone jumping immediately into action in different roles as soon as they roll up. That cannot happen in this scenario.
  21. Even if you could, you wouldn't put out enough water to do any real good. You need GPM for cooling. Pressure doesn't put out the fire. Heat removal via lots and lots of water carrying heat away is what puts out the fire. The fine high pressure spray would just entrain air and feed the fire. And for wetting the area down pre-fire, the lack of volume will also be an issue.
  22. One possible good aspect of the wind change will be that instead of coming out of the south and west, it will start coming from the north and east, pushing the fire back into the 'black' (the already-burned area where there is dramatically less remaining fuel) rather than continuing to push it into the unburned areas to the north and east. But we'll see how it goes. There will naturally still be big problems.
  23. Just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
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