Condolences on the loss of your neighbor.
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My bad. The brevity of some of your posts leaves me guessing (wrongly).
-sing
It’s case of unfortunate timing and beyond mortal control.
When my mom was dying, I took off from work and spent of a week with her, all through the nights and most of the days. My siblings came after work to sit with her as well. Came the weekend, my youngest brother took over for me for the night. My mom passed then. I had this weird thought – “I should have been there when she passed…” She passed after seeing all of us, and with one of us holding her hand as she transitioned. It doesn’t get better than that. That regret/remorse really was not justified.
Condolences for your loss.
-sing
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That was good of you to say.
How old was she? Was it a sudden , traumatic thing?
It still is a reminder that when elderly people try and make a date, you should make it a priority. I never got to catch up with her but at least I know she was feeling well and looking forward.
I’m not sure but they told me she died in her sleep Thursday night maybe.
You mentioned to @sing that she was elderly if that was the person you were referring to. It wasn’t like she was middle age and died of a heart attack.
Extreme fires can spot for two miles. A fire break does nothing. You think controlling fire is easy and you are way off.
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Results, not theory or conjecture. The forest management practices, the water reservoir management and the Firebreaks of the 70s and 80s were effective and worked by demonstrative results and were abandoned due to pressure from “environmental” activists and the politicians that catered to them seeking power…Cest Tout
There is no forest management in LA County. There is little if any in the adjacent National Forest land. Water reservoirs management is the same but now there is much more demand on it. Fire breaks are a dated concept. Fuel management has never been a priority. Activists and politicians “seeking power” having to do with fire resilience.
I was evacuated by the Sheriff in the middle of the night once living in Trabuco Canyon 45 years ago. The Canyon is full of live oak trees and xerophilic shrubs with volatile oils in them. Controlling fire there has always been a challenge. The bad fires are in the fall often in November. It takes a really bad drought to continue into January. Nobody can stop a fire in those conditions with 100 mph winds.
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Yeah, the LA fires started when a house spontaneously combusted in the middle of a subdivision. Those fires were introduced to those subdivisions by outside mismanaged areas. Talk to the Old School Fire Managers and Fire Fighters who watched frustrated at the changes in fire management including elimination Firebreaks and not cutting underbrush because they knew what it would lead to. Can all fires be stopped? Of course not, but their occurrence and severity can be limited. If you do not believe mismanagement did not affect the severity of the LA fires then you are not looking at the situation. One of the reservoirs serving the LA area was dry and fire hydrants ran dry. That is both short term and long term mismanagement.
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