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The fire quickly grew into a firestorm due to the 50 mph+ winds. Southern California is known for this phenomenon of dry winds that blow from the desert called
by Axsuul 2y ago
The fire quickly grew into a firestorm due to the 50 mph+ winds. Southern California is known for this phenomenon of dry winds that blow from the desert called the Santa Anas. They only affect certain areas, so the perfect combination of the winds + being in a fire prone area + having record rainfall the year before + being in a drought caused the fire to burn crazy fast with access to lots of brush (fuel).
If you don't stop it within the first 5 min, it quickly gets out of control. There's so much stuff to burn.
- kshacker 2y agoIf true, isn't this setup to fail? In cloud infrastructure, we build redundancy because humans can't really solve such problems in 5 minutes. And here in real world, that's our margin? Not talking about uprooting established habitats, but it appears that such risk should not be allowed.
- Axsuul 2y agoRedundancy only develops after failures. Only after that 5th PagerDuty alert do we start to add more of it. The fires in LA were a failure and more redundancy will soon follow like improved building codes, better forest management, etc.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoSame issue Australia has, people keep building their houses on hills in the scrub because they like the views and/or nature. But it's an ecosystem that has evolved for fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral#Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral#Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia#Before_European_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia#Before_...
- euroderf 2y agoIt sounds like anyone building in the midst of such an environment has some kind of death wish.