Mark Long Beach Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago 2 minutes ago, Jon in Pasadena said: At the end of the school year last May, the Choir director at my kids' HS invited all the graduating seniors and their families to a luncheon at his beautiful home. Just found out it burned to the ground. you need the winds to stop being a B word, so you can encircle it with firebreaks, and douse it repeatedly with ######ant from aircraft to try to keep the heat and flames down. then you just wait, you can't stop it, it can only stop itself when it runs out of fuel. Biggest need is the winds to stay slow. You can then get a fire under control. You just can't if the winds are high and it's as dry as it is. We normally get some rainfall in Oct/November/December which ends fire season, but none this (last) year. We'd normally have 3 inches by now, which is a lot in the desert and wets things down. Usually the biggest problem with the Santa Ana winds is the pollen which gets blown in from the desert and sets allergies ablaze. Not houses. 1 Quote
Jon in Pasadena Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago 7 minutes ago, Mark Long Beach said: Biggest need is the winds to stay slow. You can then get a fire under control. You just can't if the winds are high and it's as dry as it is. We normally get some rainfall in Oct/November/December which ends fire season, but none this (last) year. We'd normally have 3 inches by now, which is a lot in the desert and wets things down. Usually the biggest problem with the Santa Ana winds is the pollen which gets blown in from the desert and sets allergies ablaze. Not houses. From what I hear, they are predicting possible Santa Ana conditions to re-emerge on Tuesday. That is NOT good news. 1 Quote
Thrivefourfive Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago 7 minutes ago, Mark Long Beach said: Biggest need is the winds to stay slow. You can then get a fire under control. You just can't if the winds are high and it's as dry as it is. We normally get some rainfall in Oct/November/December which ends fire season, but none this (last) year. We'd normally have 3 inches by now, which is a lot in the desert and wets things down. Usually the biggest problem with the Santa Ana winds is the pollen which gets blown in from the desert and sets allergies ablaze. Not houses. Hey, have you noticed that the winds out of the east/northeast are lasting for more days than ever before..? For as many years as I’ve been paying attention. The SA winds used to be a day, then warmer air followed for a few days, a week. Now, the winds last for a week, and it gets cooler..??!! Okay…. Quote
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