ok can someone explain to me what's going on with the SF/California blackouts becuase it sounds *worse* than my middle of nowhere few thousand people Spanish village after heavy storms or whatever
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the hurricane thing is a new twist, I’ve never heard of that before
a lot of it is that we (the far west broadly) had two straight years of intense rain after a long period of drought, so there’s an astounding amount of fire-embracing-ecosystem vegetation out there to deal with
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california is a machine for turning water into fire
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this behavior was happening before the most recent rains. decades of fails from homeowner to developer to utility to government agency and more. gotta stop saying 'its this one thing', else we're never gunna improve. it's all the things.
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because it’s what plants crave
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I also saw something that said California has quietly cut down funding for a bunch of programs that helped prevent fires
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