jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoThe California fires could scorch the state's broken insurance marketwww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThere’s no such thing as a small controlled fire alongside a hill that homes have been built into. There’s no way back from this other than not rebuilding those areas so they can be maintained. Additionally, with winds up to 100mph and humidity below 20%, you can barely keep homes from burning, much less any sort of vegetation. But don’t worry, we’ll all be slinging the same mud again next season when hurricanes wipe out some coastal populations.
There’s no such thing as a small controlled fire alongside a hill that homes have been built into.
There’s no way back from this other than not rebuilding those areas so they can be maintained.
Additionally, with winds up to 100mph and humidity below 20%, you can barely keep homes from burning, much less any sort of vegetation.
But don’t worry, we’ll all be slinging the same mud again next season when hurricanes wipe out some coastal populations.