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>California is in a megadrought. To be fair, we had big, honkin', town-killin' fires back when it rained and snowed more than average for decades. It's hard t
by fathompinball 5y ago
>California is in a megadrought.
To be fair, we had big, honkin', town-killin' fires back when it rained and snowed more than average for decades.
It's hard to tell how much is due to drought, how much to a shift from snow to rain, how much is home development, how much is homeless people torching off areas (more than you'd like to think).
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThe drought began in about 1999. The wet years in the two decades since then have not changed the drought. Soil moisture levels across the SW of the US are at their lowest levels in 1200 years. So, maybe you're referring to an earlier period, in which case, cool.
- fathompinball 5y agoThe really threatening fires we had here were in 1988, 1994, 1997, 1999.