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Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 06:36 PM Oct 2017

Before & After: How the vineyards acted as a firebreak in some areas.

Artesa winery is open and running again, so I drove up today to catch a photo from a vantage point I used a couple of years ago:






94* out here again today. Really thankful we got a good downpour of rain last week.


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Before & After: How the vineyards acted as a firebreak in some areas. (Original Post) Adsos Letter Oct 2017 OP
Wow. What a difference. Spring in the first photo? mnhtnbb Oct 2017 #1
I had to check. Adsos Letter Oct 2017 #2
After or during the rainy season! mnhtnbb Oct 2017 #3
During. Adsos Letter Oct 2017 #4
Another example Adsos Letter Oct 2017 #5
The whole state had about 150-200% the average rain totals BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #6
Yes, and an extended period of hot weather. Adsos Letter Oct 2017 #7
Yeah, they closed the schools without A/C again today BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #8

Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
2. I had to check.
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:23 PM
Oct 2017

It was the last day of January, this year. I remembered it being longer ago than that.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
6. The whole state had about 150-200% the average rain totals
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 09:28 PM
Oct 2017

last year...even more than the predicted deluge of the El Nino the winter before. It caused so much new growth which eventually fueled the current fire season.

Adsos Letter

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7. Yes, and an extended period of hot weather.
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 09:40 PM
Oct 2017

In NorCal, anyway.

It was 94* here today, and hotter down your way.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
8. Yeah, they closed the schools without A/C again today
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 09:47 PM
Oct 2017

and SDG&E cut off power to the areas where the Santa Ana's were blowing the hardest to prevent sparks from causing fires. It is like a blow dryer outside. My classroom would often be 90+ degrees and I had to water mist my 6 year olds like they were house plants.

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