Saturday, July 5, 2008
California Wildfires 2008
Wow. At one point, nearly 1500 wildfires were burning in California last week. Here's the latest map produced by MODIS that illustrates which regions were/are burning. Yellow means the fire is out. Red and orange means they are still active. In the map, they appear to be tiny dots. But if you think about the area your city occupies and compare that to the fires, the fires seem much more threatening. Thank you, firefighters, for protecting us!
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Yes. A very large thank you to the brave and selfless firefighters, most of whom are far from home so they can save someone else's.
As an addendum, several articles recently have noted how California's resources are stretched super-thin with all the fires raging throughout the state. One can only wonder how much difference 2300 more California National Guard members could make. That is, if they weren't serving in the Middle East at the whim of a deluded President. Something California voters may want to think about when elections come around and people have a choice whether to keep these existing asinine policies in place, or to vote for a change.
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