Yeah you aren't stopping a fire spreading when conditions are like that. Which is why it is so important to properly evaluate risk when permitting building. i.e. Maybe don't live half-way u… (View Post)

And I've figured out what I'm thinking of. It was John McPhee's book The Control of Nature, which contains an essay from the New Yorker magazine called Los Angeles Against the Mountain… (View Post)

I don't know about January, but LA has a lot of trouble with fires, and drainage and so flash floods. I remember reading about this years ago, and the book I read might have been written decades… (View Post)

Exactly, you have to be an actual idiot, or oil baron, to be anti-renewables now. (View Post)

"Ban that cheaper clean thing so that my rich donors can keep getting richer." It's nuts. (View Post)