are california wildfires even newsworthy?

perdidochas · Dec 27, 2017

katmustang12 said: ↑

i mean seriously!! they happen EVERYDAY! its starting to seem more like a way of life than a tragedy.
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They are newsworthy, but should have been expected. Historically, fires are bad the fall/winter after a rainy spring.

Media_Truth · Dec 29, 2017

When it comes to Climate Change, wildfire intensities are definitely affected. Personally, I think this is the most telling effect of Climate Change today.

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warmi...ic-wildfires-climate-change.html#.WkXp1N-nHIU

waltky · Jan 9, 2018

Flooding aftermath of wildfires...

At least 8 people dead after California mudslides
Jan 9, 2018 - At least eight people are dead after powerful storms and mudslides swept parts of Southern California on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Firefighters rescued eight people in Montecito, and authorities say those numbers could rise as several people remain missing.

Emergency personnel search through debris and damaged homes after a mudslide in Montecito, California on Jan. 9.

On Monday, mandatory evacuations were issued by Santa Barbara County officials and warned that the regions that already scorched by the California wildfires would face a major rainstorm of the season. This storm dumped more than five inches of rainfall north of Ojai in the Thomas Fire burn area, the National Weather Service in Los Angeles reported.

Emergency personnel inspect a damaged home on Hot Springs Road after a mudslide in Montecito, California on Jan. 9.

Mud flowed “waist-high” 30 miles away in Montecito after heavy rainfall shortly after midnight, said Mike Eliason, a public information officer for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. The storm and mud littered roads with downed trees and powerlines in Montecito, and gas mains were reported broken, he said.

A search dog looks for victims in damaged homes after a mudslide in Montecito on Jan. 9.

Also according to Eliason, the emergency crews have received numerous calls to rescue people trapped in vehicles, homes and a child was among one of those who was injured. The severe storm is threatening the state with the heaviest rainfall in six years, according to Reuters.

Emergency personnel rescue a man from flood waters and debris after a mudslide in Montecito, California, U.S. in this photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department January 9, 2018.

Flooding and debris flows closed US 101 in the Thomas Fire burn area, located north of Ventura and south of Santa Barbara, according to California Department of Transportation. Several freeways and highways were also closed in Ventura and Los Angeles counties due to mudslides.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/at-least-five-people-dead-after-california-mudslides
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lifornia mudslides kill at least 13 people in area ravaged by wildfire
January 9, 2018 - Mudslides, boulders and cascading debris killed at least 13 people on Tuesday in an area of Southern California’s Pacific Coast ravaged by a series of intense wildfires that burned off protective vegetation last month.

Heavy downpours struck before dawn on Tuesday after thousands of residents in Santa Barbara County along the Pacific coast north of Los Angeles were ordered to evacuate or urged to do so voluntarily, some of them for a second time since December. But only 10 to 15 percent complied with mandatory orders, said Amber Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. Emergency workers, using search dogs and helicopters, have rescued dozens of people stranded in mud-coated rubble in the pristine area, sandwiched between the ocean and the sprawling Los Padres National Forest, about 110 miles north of Los Angeles. The upscale communities of Montecito and Carpenteria, just outside the city of Santa Barbara, were hardest hit.

The mudslides toppled trees, demolished cars and covered blocks of quiet residential neighborhoods with a thick layer of mud, and blocked Highway 101, a major north-south route along the coast. “The best way I can describe it is, it looked like a World War One battlefield,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a news conference. The death toll could rise, with rescue workers still picking through dozens of damaged and demolished homes in the search for survivors, Brown said. At one point on Tuesday, at least two dozen people were missing, but Brown did not know how many were still missing. About 300 people were stranded in a canyon. Local officials, using borrowed helicopters from the U.S. Coast Guard, were working to airlift them out, Brown said.

THIGH-HIGH MUD

The number of fatalities surpassed the death toll from a California mudslide on Jan. 10, 2005, when 10 people were killed as a hillside gave way in the town of La Conchita, less than 20 miles (32 km) south of the latest disaster. The threat of mudslides had prompted the county to order 7,000 residents to leave their homes ahead of a powerful rainstorm and to urge 23,000 others to evacuate voluntarily. The mudslides swept through both the mandatory evacuation zones and areas where people were urged to voluntarily leave, Brown said. Brown, in response to questions of why some places were part of the mandatory evacuation zone, said it was not possible “in a situation like this to define to the house or to the block or to the neighborhood” where a mudslide might occur.

The county set up an evacuation shelter at Santa Barbara City College, where some people showed up drenched in mud, and also provided a place for people to take their animals. Last month’s wildfires, the largest in California history, left the area vulnerable to mudslides. The fires burned away grass and shrubs that hold the soil in place and also baked a waxy layer into the earth that prevents water from sinking deeply into the ground. Some local residents had to flee their homes due to the fires last month and again this week because of the rains. Among them was Colin Funk, 42, who sat up watching mud and debris approaching his Montecito house overnight and fled on Tuesday morning with his wife and three young children as thigh-high mud approached the front doorway. “We started looking around and that’s when we saw parts of roofs and there was a body against our next door neighbor’s car,” Funk, who works as a financial adviser, said by telephone. “I feel lucky,” Funk said. “Some people lost their lives in my neighborhood.”

Television personality Ellen DeGeneres, who is among a coterie of celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Rob Lowe who own homes in the upscale community of Montecito, posted a photo on Twitter of a roadway choked with mud and brown water. “This is not a river,” DeGeneres wrote on Twitter. “This is the 101 freeway in my neighborhood right now. Montecito needs your love and support.” Some areas of Santa Barbara County early on Tuesday were pounded with more than a half-inch of rain in five minutes, a rate that far exceeds the normal flash flood threshold, officials said. “Where are the frogs and locusts? We’re waiting for them,” Dominic Shiach, a restaurateur from Montecito who evacuated due to last month’s fire, said by telephone. He lives just outside the latest evacuation zone.

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-u...ple-in-area-ravaged-by-wildfire-idINKBN1EY0OO
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yiostheoy · Jan 9, 2018

katmustang12 said: ↑

i mean seriously!! they happen EVERYDAY! its starting to seem more like a way of life than a tragedy.
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13 people have been killed so far in Cali due to mud slides.

So the death toll there is newsworthy.

The only good Californian is a dead Californian.

These communists and their communist state with its communist laws do not belong in the USA.

waltky · Jan 11, 2018

California mudslides death toll rises with 17 still missing...

California mudslides death toll rises with 17 still missing
11 Jan.`18 - Hundreds of rescuers are combing wreckage in Southern California for those missing after mudslides that have killed 17.

Another 28 injuries have been reported in Santa Barbara County following the deluge that overwhelmed an area scorched by wildfires last month. More than 100 homes were destroyed, and another 300 have been damaged. One rescue worker tearfully described plucking a "muddy doll" of a toddler from under several feet of debris. Berkeley Johnson said the two-year-old girl was taken to hospital and suffered an injury to her hip. "I don't know how the baby survived," Mr Berkeley told the Santa Barbara Independent newspaper.

Fire department workers rescued a 14-year-old girl from a collapsed house in Montecito

He said of his own home in the community of Montecito: "This was an hour of rain, and the house was gone." Mr Johnson said he and his wife, Karen, heard a baby crying after the flooding had subsided and they managed to climb down from the roof of their swamped home. The pair joined a fireman to dig the toddler out, scooping mud from her mouth before she was taken to hospital. "Had we not gone over there, I don't think that kid would have [survived]," he added.

Graphic showing mandatory evacuation zones east of Santa Barbara, and huge swath of land affected by Thomas wildfire

Police say 17 people remain missing. The death toll rose on Wednesday afternoon after two more bodies were found. More than 50 people have been rescued already but many places were still inaccessible. Several roads were closed, including the major Highway 101 which authorities say will not be reopened until Monday. "We are still very much in active search-and-rescue mode," said Chris Elms, a spokesman for Cal Fire, warning that the death toll may still rise. "That's a fear. We are still very hopeful that we will locate people alive," he added.

Boulders the size of cars rolled down hills and slammed into roadways

Santa Barbara County spokesman Amber Anderson said: "We have no idea where they're at. We think somewhere in the debris field." The upmarket neighbourhood of Montecito is home to celebrities such as actor Rob Lowe, chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and media mogul Oprah Winfrey. On Instagram, Ms Winfrey said her property had escaped the worst as she toured the scene, but described the house next door as "devastated".

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Moi621 · Jan 13, 2018

As authorities continue to search for those missing in the deadly

Montecito mudslide disaster, officials announced that U.S. 101 would

remain closed indefinitely. The 101, a key north-south route in California,

was tentatively scheduled to reopen on Monday, . . . .

That is a major, major highway closure.

Right down there by Ventura. No place to go if y'can't go to L.A.

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