Are any of you here aware of DEW?, Directed Energy Weapons?, if so your comments on them and ,question for you all, so do you think the fires are natural?going on in much of the state of California?

So, someone is shooting a laser beam at Ca., setting the fires?

Guess they should have made select cuts instead of hugging them all. Now they aren't worth squat.

Where is Capt. Kirk when you need him. some Inter Galactic kids are doing that magnifying glass off the sun prank again.

Don't know about DEW weapons, but that's a great Mullet haircut you
got there.

Of course the wildfires are natural - do you watch the news or read the newspaper??

It is the weather conditions in California that are often to blame for the wildfires that erupt in the state. From late spring through autumn; dry, windy, and at times, very hot weather conditions prevail in California. Such weather conditions act as catalysts for wildfires that range from moderate to extremely devastating. To make matters worse, the Santa Ana Winds, which are strong and dry winds blowing respectively in the northern and southern part of California, give strength to these wildfires making them much more difficult to combat. For the past several years that part of CA has had a draughts & eecord hot temperatures and little snow in the winter - combined with the Santa Ana winds you get a perfect
storm situation for wildfires,

LOL thanks

I love CTs..they give the brain something to do..if it were the case...why California.?..I have heard many theories about the fires.,..from cartel to Muslims...but as dull as it is.. I think it’s just nature’s way..

One of the recent fires in Ca. was started by homeless people camping out in the woods.

a lot of these fires are started by people being careless or started on purpose by people who like to set fires.
Over the years many people have been arrested for doing this type stuff.

Without the tin foil hats there are reports it was started by a homeless person. Not everything a conspiracy. Hell I have even seen that Trump did it

Btw...this is why citing a source helps

it is a know fact that the people of both Arizona and Nevada have teamed up to overthrow California.. and take it.

the first wave is to start the fires with laser beams,( which has begun) thus driving the residents to the ocean. At that point they will just be pushed in.

that is the rumor I am spreading.

http://wildfiretoday.com/2014/03/03/eucalyptus-and-fire/

Wildland firefighters in Australia and in some areas of California are very familiar with eucalyptus trees. They are native and very common in Australia and are planted as ornamentals in the United States. The leaves produce a volatile highly combustible oil, and the ground beneath the trees is covered with large amounts of litter which is high in phenolics, preventing its breakdown by fungi. Wildfires burn rapidly under them and through the tree crowns. It has been estimated that other than the 3,000+ homes that burned in the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire in California, about 70 percent of the energy released was through the combustion of eucalyptus.

Eucalyptus is one of three similar genera that are commonly referred to as “eucalypts”.

Jon Henley, a reporter who covered the numerous large bushfires a year ago in Australia, has written a book about fire down under, titled “Firestorm: Surviving the Tasmanian bushfire”. Below is an excerpt:

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“…Gum trees, as eucalypts are known, ‘are like weeds that come up on bombed-out blocks’, adds Jamie Kirkpatrick, professor of geography and environmental studies at the university. ‘They’re fantastically fast growers and great colonisers, but not great competitors.’

Eucalypts typically let through a lot of light, allowing other vegetation types such as scrub and grass to grow beneath them. They can live for maybe 700 years. But they won’t regenerate, Kirkpatrick explains, if what is growing beneath them over the years becomes too dense. Most eucalypt species, therefore — there are more than 600 in Australia, between 30 and 40 in Tasmania — have evolved traits that allow them to survive and prosper in the fires that will clear that undergrowth.

Some, like the mighty, 100-metre-tall Eucalyptus regnans — also known as the mountain ash, stringy gum or Tasmanian oak — hold their seeds inside small, hard capsules; a fire will instantly trigger a massive drop of seeds to the newly fertilised ground.

The myriad bright green buds that sprout spectacularly from the trunks of other eucalypts in the aftermath of a big fire are another kind of regeneration mechanism, bursting through the scorched and blackened bark within weeks of a blaze.

Within five or six years, ‘a burned forest will be looking pretty good’, Kirkpatrick says. ‘And a large proportion of Tasmania’s flora fits into this fire ecology. Pea plants, wattles — their germination is stimulated by heat and smoke. Fire is really, really important in Tasmania.’

At the centre of it all, though, is the eucalypt. Because these trees do not just resist fire, they actively encourage it. ‘They withstand fire, they need fire; to some extent, they create fire,’ Bowman says. ‘The leaves, the bark, don’t decompose. They’re highly, highly flammable. And on a hot day, you can smell their oils.’

The bark and leaves of eucalypts seem almost made to promote fire. Some are known as stringyor candle-barks: long, easily lit strips hang loosely off their trunks and, once alight, whirl blazing up into the flammable canopy above, or are carried by the wind many kilometres ahead of a fire to speed its advance.”

This is an edited extract from Firestorm: Surviving the Tasmanian bushfire by Jon Henley

that and bad Land-Management!

I am sure there are natural things in forests that can combust under the right conditions. But the vast majority of fires out there are due to human intervention or lighting strikes.

The biggest part of this issue it that people have taken up residence in these hills, valleys and every little nook and cranny of the foothills. I have been there a few times and while it is beautiful, I can see how dangerous it could be in the case of fire... you literally can not stand upright on the hills.. too steep. Very hard to fight the fires in that terrain.

Same mentality here in Jersey, people build there houses basically right on the beach, then cry when mother nature reclaims the land every 5 years or so.

But they automatically start rebuilding as soon as the storm is gone. Just like the folks in Ca. will do.

And this will be repeated over and over again.

I saw where that stupid moron liberal Maxine waters said she saw trump w/ a can of lighter fluid and a match while riding around in Cali. With all the incoherent babbling she does , I'll take that info w/ a grain of salt. To bad all those Hollywood elites are haveing to abandon thier homes.. Maybe they should pull thier head out of thier *** and get back to reality. You don't have to stick your d..k in every little bimbo that wants to be a star. Start living a normal wholesome life instead of the sleazy lying , better than thou life's you live now. As far as I'm concerned most of the liberal elites should be in jail for the way you conduct your lives

A few years ago I was out there on business and on a off day I took a cruise over to Rodeo Drive. There is a pizza place just off Rodeo. So I brought 2 slices and want back to Rodeo drive and just watched these super rich go about there day.

They cracked me up with their " plastic" ways

I actually saw a stunning blonde get out of a limo with her 2 white poodles and go into a jewelry store. Sunglasses.. head tilted up..as she walked past the common folk.. the whole show.

those people out there have no clue what reality is.. but it is fun to watch them.. while eating pizza.

Why do you always have to bring up the issue of liberals & start bashing them? A conservative can be just as bad. Bottom line - if a person is a jerk, they're a jerk - being liberal or conservative has nothing to with it. Extremism is extremism, and a jerk is a jerk -whether you are liberal, conservative, middle of the road or apolitical.
Contrary to popular belief, politics does not rule the world or govern everything that people do.