We need to learn from CA's mistake

[4wheels]

We don't have Santa Anna winds, but we do have forest fires and droughts. It is easy for us to point fingers at CA and say you should have cleaned up the forest - but that is a lot of money and where are you going to put the stuff? I see a lot of news pointing to the mayor cut 2% from Fire and that is the reason why CA fires are out of control. That will only make it harder for Trump to cut the federal budget. Can you imagine the perl clutching "you're trying to burn down America by cutting so much money from the government."

This video shows how Tom Hanks house survived the fires. As well as home construction of another house that also survived the fires.

https://youtu.be/yZe-TlYxm9g?si=Um0nZpBe9riR9f5n

That is what I mean by we should learn from CA. There are things around building houses that can lower the risk of house fires spreading to other houses. This could happen to the woodlands. Arsonists have tried and so far have failed.

This is some video of what the 100 mph winds + fire looks like. Blowtorch is an understatement.

https://youtu.be/cJeT6MXxG08?si=JV4b4Nkj_fe3nDOK

[SJP51]

There are several wood burning power plants in east Texas. If clearing and fire breaks need to be built, there is a way to get rid of the wood.

[MacDaddy67]

When the fire fighters told management they needed more dikes for fighting fires, they should have been more specific

[TX_Kevin]

When the fire fighters told management they needed more dikes for fighting fires, they should have been more specific

Dams. I think they said they need dams. The dikes said they need dikes.

[friscopaint]

Just like living inland in a Hurricane area, keep all the tall trees a distance from your structures you will eventually get the winds and those pines are tall and fall like matchsticks.......I was Salt Lake City FD and up on the bench there were multi million dollar houses I worked on part time and they had oak brush up to and under their huge wooden decks. Don't know if it's changed but back then I recognized there was no attempt to protect the houses from fires, same with some of the other areas headed up to Park City, timber very close to the houses on the mountain sides. Granted those areas in particular don't normally get the winds but if you are at the mouth of a canyon the morning winds are really blowing, I know I lived near mouth of Weber Canyon and using snow blower in the mornings sucked with the canyon winds, had to wear ski suit.

[Man]

Everyone can easily learn from California by just doing the opposite of what they are doing. They can't make it any easier.

[Bill]

Controlled burns make more sense than trying to clear all the dead brush and vegetation. Eucalyptus trees are common there around houses, and with high oil content burn and explode spreading embers. Bit there’s no way to stop a fire spreading fanned by 50-100 mph winds.

[1riot1ranger]

Lesson learned. Never vote Democrat or paint your hydrants in rainbow colors..... Maybe don't forbid travel to other states (like they did Texas) and maybe don't spend millions to "Trump Proof" your state. Other lessons: maybe a 13% income tax is not the answer? Maybe outlawing gas-powered engines is a bad idea? Every product has a label that it's know in Californian to cause cancer? I'm sure there are many other lessons we can learn.....

[flywise]

Let a thousand goats run through those forest every year on a rotation.Maybe a month or two at a time. Either state goats or just least those rights out to locals. There are folks out there who actually do this on private property and even some smaller municipalities. The goats have proven.to keep the under brush under control. If they are scared of controlled burns this is another option.

[BrandonA]

If you look around western Travis and Williamson county and most of the Hillcountry and you see the land covered in Cedar trees and homes being built amongst them, it becomes a not if but when.

[tps7742]

I had breakfast this morning and there was a young guy there that works for the National Forest Service said he had been pushing firebreak lanes so they can start controlled burns as usual for this time of year if conditions are right.

[Man]

I had breakfast this morning and there was a young guy there that works for the National Forest Service said he had been pushing firebreak lanes so they can start controlled burns as usual for this time of year if conditions are right.

He obviously doesn't care about the southern spotted newt.

[Zmaxhunter]

Smart meters.
Fires starting at the same time.
Intentional negligence.

[stickerpatch59]

Hell, if we haven't figured it out in the last thirty years or so; we're probably just as bad.