Then you haven't lived here very long

In the 1800’s, as a gift of good faith, Australia gave the state of California a few hundred eucalyptus saplings

Or whatever it was, I just assume 1800s

Anyways that’s beside the point

When eucalyptus trees grow, their trunks and sap are filled with the same substance that makes their leaves poisonous
It also just so happens that this substance is flammable.

Highly.

Flammable.

It's largely because California will not burn off debris that builds up over time on the forest floor and when it dries out and becomes very flammable

That too.

But most spontaneous fires can be attributed to the California blue gum

Its exacerbated by the dems being environmentalists not conservationists

What exactly is it different tbh

I dunno the distinction

Sounds the same to me?

best guess is one actively maintains ecosystems and the other one protests nuclear plants and logging companies because they watched ferngully once

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Right see conservationists do things like forest management. Environmentalists think that is raping Mother Gia and it is better to have your state catch fire every year or so......

Little do they know that only by human intervention are so many species particularly endangered ones still alive and for the ones that are, rebounding.

It's usually moralizing busybodies that are environmentalists. Or those with an agenda, to prescribe motive to their actions other than morality (or alleged morality)

My parents' power turned back on about an hour and a half from this post, so perhaps they aren't going to keep everyone out of power as long as projected after they realized the shitstorm they already got themselves into

so its not directly because of wind conditions, then?

Well wind can knock down power lines and that can start fires. But I'd point out that 90% of tornados for like, the whole fucking planet, happen in the Midwest. And there are forests here too. Yet we manage not to burn ourselves up on a regular basis and do not require rolling blackouts to accomplish that feat.

TL;DR wind is real but the primary problem is Californians are idiots.

I mean, knocking down power lines can do enough damage by itself

though I don't know why the word 'surge' was about to come to my head, seeing that its a cessation of power, not a rpid influx

Ok but have you seen a tornado? One threw a tree through our living room when I was 6. I assure you they knock over power lines and buildings and all kinds of shit.

yeah I'm aware. Oregon had winds that uprooted fucking 3-story trees in my neighborhood

my point is, is the power company being cunts, or are they reasonable in their blackouts?

It is likely reasonable for CA because they do not do forestry management for shit. Which is to say wind is not the real problem.

fair enough

The issue was

Regardless on if you think anything is a conspiracy for greater acts, which I won't get into because they're more out there for regular folks

The time in which California was not doing protective deforestation was also conveniently the same chunk of years, around 4~5, that the state was experiencing a very high level of drought.

Coupled with bad weather, assuming weather was the cause and not a guise, triggered a fire after powerlines went down.

So there was absolutely tons of dry fuel and bark-beetle infested tree corpses to burn

That, and a load of Eucalyptus trees had been gifted nearly a century ago from Australia

And guess how flammable Eucalyptus oil is (they don't even allow its use in saunas)

While I am sure those are factors I do not think you comprehend how insane CA 'environmental' regulations are or the negative impacts of them. Look on the back of a can of WD-40. It is restricted in CA. You cannot use 140 flash mineral spirits in the whole state as a degreaser. This sort of Luddite mania carries over into their forest management making it public policy to turn their forests into active tinder boxes.

Nigger I just said that and I say it as a lifelong California resident

Protective Deforestation is merely one aspect of their monumental environmentalism failures

I was merely highlighting specifics behind the Butte Fire and to a lesser extent the Paradise Fire