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wood

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
  7. Toyota, 2 Mazdas, and MyRadar here. I'm fooked.
  8. It just occurred to me ... the Bastrop fire burned for 55 days. I've slept a couple of times since then so maybe I just forgot, but I don't remember President Obama politicizing that fire or doing anything other than offering the help of the federal government. Same with Biden during the Smokehouse Creek fire that burned a million acres and took 3 weeks to contain. In fact, he said 'When disasters strike, there's no red states or blue states'.
  9. It just occurred to me ... the Bastrop fire burned for 55 days.
  10. wood

    Landman

    This here. And re: the bold portion, pretty sure that's unpossible.
  11. COTA resurfacing the esses. Again.
  12. So I guess that was started by an auto fire?
  13. For the people who cry when we call out Rogan for being a POS ... shit like this is the reason why we do it.
  14. Yeah and all I can make out is someone standing maybe 50 feet away from where the smoke is originating. Maybe I'm missing it, and maybe that person started that particular fire, but I don't see the 'proof'.
  15. Not on the same scale of course, and afaik he had good intentions, but this reminds me of Mike Levy incessantly trying to tell AFD what to do and how to do it. He'd literally call dispatch and tell us we should be doing x, y, and z, and we'd be like, "Uh, ok Mr. Levy. We'll pass this up the chain of command". Then we'd hang up the phone and someone would always say "Why the fuck does he have access to our phone number?"
  16. What a complete POS.
  17. LOL what a fucking dumbass. I wonder how long it will take him to call this firefighter a pedophile ...
  18. Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks ‘they’ should put out the California wildfires by making it rain – 15 responses that might dampen her mood https://www.thepoke.com/2025/01/13/marjorie-taylor-greene-dems-should-put-out-wildfires-by-making-it-rain/ Holy sh*t. One paragraph in and I'm already LOLing. #7 is my favorite ...
  19. Exactly. I won't re-post all my posts in the same vein from the other thread, but yeah, all of this.
  20. On top of Baker losing the game for the Bucs in classic Baker Mayfield fashion with a critical turnover, TIL that he led the league in both INTs and fumbles this year. It was a good day ....
  21. LOL first thing that popped into my mind too ....
  22. Looks like it belongs in the 'parking douchebaggery' thread, too. Taking up two spots.
  23. Yep ... and Honda's an actual car manufacturer, not a pretend one like Tesla.
  24. Judging from the thread, I think it may refer to a theory that this is an act of terrorism.
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