California Fires

[FoxtArt]

Additionally, the salt permanently affects vegetation for a rather long period of time. Sounds like a minor thing, but barren landscapes = landslides. Why use ocean water when every rich person has a pool. If they haven't ran the pools dry, then the problem isn't lack of water per se, it's lack of infrastructure / training to access all potential sources of (fresh) water.

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I hear Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus is going to move its headquarters from Sarasota Fla. to L.A. California because of the abundance of Clowns!

Gavin Newsom could be 'Gabby' the clown.

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Some of the displaced people are calling themselves “Climate Refugees”.

So, you know where this is going!

[BushMasterBoy]

The military put out the fires? They can't even feed the soldiers properly! So where is the money going?


https://krdo.com/news/2025/01/09/for...lity-quantity/

[BladesNBarrels]

According to this morning's CBS news report
The Marshall Fire had the same problem with the water supply and the water processing plant bypassed the processing and allowed unprocessed water to be used in the fire hydrant system.
That helped the fire fighting, but the clean-up of the system took a long time.
Water usage had to be limited and water boiled before domestic use.
The plant manager shared the information with his counterparts in California, but had not been informed if they tried the same type of emergency relief.

[Clint45]

Some of the displaced people are calling themselves ?Climate Refugees?.

So, you know where this is going!

Others may choose to call them something else. "Zombie hordes" has a nice ring to it.

[BushMasterBoy]

I used to live in Cocoa Beach. I had a place 200 yards from the ocean. We used to have some hurricanes. I would evacuate everytime. I would come back and my car that I parked in a multi-story carpark was covered in salt. The hurricane winds would blow ocean water all over everything. Approx. a 1/8 inch to a 1/4 inch of salt crystals covered the car. I would get a bucket of tap water and a sponge and clean the windows of salt. If the salt kills all the plants, why does the grass and trees seem fine?
Cocoa Beach city should be a barren wasteland. They still have plenty of foliage. So does Cape Canaveral! Merritt Island is mostly subtropical jungle. Plenty of plants and wildlife.

All the talk of saltwater destroying the land is bullshit. When it rains, the water washes away the salt. And it rains alot in Florida. Same with Hawaii and tropical cyclones.

Admittedly corrosion of metal is greater when exposed to seawater. It is a real bitch to back flush all the residue salt out of the pipes. It is still uses less resources than having to rebuild a whole city!

[XJ]

I know a thing or two about water & wastewater plants.


It is very much not a thing to have a simple direct connection in place which bypasses the treatment process. To make that happen would require some highly unusual advanced planning or some emergency barnyard engineering. Flushing the distribution system afterwards is a hassle too as mentioned above.

Also the selection of equipment (pumps, pipe size, etc) is specific to the design. You just can't economically justify a system 5x larger than your water rights, and everything in the west starts and ends with the water rights. For water quality reasons you can't have a huge storage tank of treated water compared to the ordinary usage.

There are of course many things that can be done, but I don't want to sidetrack the discussion.

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Listening to Newsom (I don't like the prick, if you haven't noticed) news interviews, he would be better off just to shut the F up!

[BushMasterBoy]

20 million dollar homes burnt to the ground, 30 yards to the ocean! No pumps, no hoses, just let them burn! RUFKM