Category Archives: wildfire

Saving Mount Wilson

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Doc Searls

This was last night: And this was just before sunset tonight: From the Mt. Wilson Observatory website: Mount Wilson Observatory Status Angeles National Forest is CLOSED due to the extreme fire hazard conditions. To see how the Observatory is faring during the … Continue reading →

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Geology answers for Montecito and Santa Barbara

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Doc Searls

Just before it started, the geology meeting at the Santa Barbara Central Library on Thursday looked like this from the front of the room (where I also tweeted the same pano): Our speakers were geology professor Ed Keller of UCSB and … Continue reading →

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Geology questions for Montecito and Santa Barbara

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Doc Searls

This post continues the inquiry I started with Making sense of what happened to Montecito. That post got a record number of reads for this blog, and 57 comments as well. I expect to learn more at the community meeting … Continue reading →

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Making sense of what happened to Montecito

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Doc Searls

Montecito is now a quarry with houses in it: So far twenty dead have been removed. It will take much more time to remove twenty thousand dump truck loads of what geologists call “debris,” just to get down to where … Continue reading →

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An evacuated view on the #ThomasFire

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Doc Searls

Here’s the latest satellite fire detection data, restricted to just the last twelve hours of the Thomas Fire, mapped on Google Earth Pro:That’s labeled 1830 Mountain Standard Time (MST), or 5:30pm Pacific, about half an hour ago as I write … Continue reading →

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