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Swamp Thang

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Holy chit that is an ominous-looking fire. SoCal is going through the absolute worst-case scenario right now, what with this deadly combination of high winds, high heat, and low humidity.

Purely from the standpoint of public safety, California's state authorities must now bite the bullet and impose a zero-tolerance policy for homeless encampments in undeveloped brushlands. Without a single exception, homeless people start fires to cook and for warmth, or purely for kicks, when mental illness is a factor.

Because homeless encampments pose a direct and deadly arson threat to the life and property of tax-paying residents, drastic legislation changes are overdue in California. Compassion for the less fortunate in life must be tempered by a sober realization that falling through the cracks of society CAN NOT equate with carte blanche to act in casual disregard of laws forbidding the establishment of illegal encampments.

The devastating effects of global warming and climate change are perilous enough as they are without the escalated risk factor of allowing thousands of potential arsonists to simply erect tents and squat wherever they wish while setting open fires daily as a central aspect of that vagrant "lifestyle".

/Rant over
 

BrassNwood

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Holy chit that is an ominous-looking fire. SoCal is going through the absolute worst-case scenario right now, what with this deadly combination of high winds, high heat, and low humidity.

Purely from the standpoint of public safety, California's state authorities must now bite the bullet and impose a zero-tolerance policy for homeless encampments in undeveloped brushlands. Without a single exception, homeless people start fires to cook and for warmth, or purely for kicks, when mental illness is a factor.

Because homeless encampments pose a direct and deadly arson threat to the life and property of tax-paying residents, drastic legislation changes are overdue in California. Compassion for the less fortunate in life must be tempered by a sober realization that falling through the cracks of society CAN NOT equate with carte blanche to act in casual disregard of laws forbidding the establishment of illegal encampments.

The devastating effects of global warming and climate change are perilous enough as they are without the escalated risk factor of allowing thousands of potential arsonists to simply erect tents and squat wherever they wish while setting open fires daily as a central aspect of that vagrant "lifestyle".

/Rant over

It's not just that. Much of the problem is the constant urban sprawl. All the outlying empty hills and canyons would burn every few years. I've lived in the greater Los Angeles basin for 65 of my 70 years and I remember it all too well. Now all those canyons are full of ticky tacky multi-million dollar wood frame homes on narrow winding canyon roads.

The fires would burn from Moorpark clear to the ocean. I also remember we had a chance to buy a pair of Canada built water dropping tankers for a few million each. Was decided it was too costly.

They keep letting camps develop in the San Gabriel riverbed. In my day they arrested your ass and threw you in jail for trespassing in the water district re-charge basins. That is my drinking water supply these people are shitting in.
 

BrassNwood

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Wide range of finger sizes considering they all came from the same pack
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From an era when America actually made things from Iron and steel.

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15 seconds from touchdown.

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I don't catch them at night very often.

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Winter in So Cal = Frost on the lawn.
 

pipeline

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What are the seedlings with varying finger sizes, you have in the containers?

Hope you see some germination. Temperature is important, but they will germinate at surprisingly cool temperatures, it just takes a little longer.

We have a foot of snow on the lawn right now! :smoke:
 

BrassNwood

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12 of 16 of the latest seedlings have broken ground before we ran off to the halfway house as I have another round of physical therapy in the morning.
 
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