It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: FlukeSkywalker
Ok, so I drink almost a 5th a night (under water) and while I'm staying in Glendale, CA I have major issues with my heart each night while trying to sleep (major heartburn = home burning) during this fire nonsense. I'm sure it's NOT REMOTELY RELATED. Nope, obviously not.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
Actually, I was watching a news broadcast a few days ago and thought the same.
It was on Fox, and the reporter was pointing to and talking about a house he lived in, literally 200 ft from a house that was burned to the ground. The camera panned around and not a single other house was touched and the trees all around were green. It was so strange.
I understand embers can travel and start a fire, but with it being as dry as they say it is, if that one house caught then it should have lit the neighborhood up.
It seemed very out of place and i thought the exact same thing....I wonder if the owner just lit it up because they wanted to rebuild or were underwater.
I would bet there were more than a few that did this.
originally posted by: FlukeSkywalker
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
That was amusing. I never post satire. I'm speaking the truth about my existence and what I do with my life. It's not my fault that the world revolves around me.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
What is scary is to think that many of these homes could have been in "developments" where most of the people were in debt. Ever hear the phrase of "everyone on the block is under-water". The houses are often targeted and sold to groups (same demographics) of people. I wonder how many could have done this and then killed a neighbor who wasn't in on it. over 1,000 missing and 60+ dead.
originally posted by: Look2theSacredHeart
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
Firespotting might be why houses 1 mile away from the main fires caught fire. Embers can be flung pretty far from a fire.
"[Wildfires] may also spread by jumping or spotting as winds and vertical convection columns carry firebrands (hot wood embers) and other burning materials through the air over roads, rivers, and other barriers that may otherwise act as firebreaks." Wikipedia
More detail below, but it's a pdf.
link to pdf of scientific journal on wildfires