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Making sense of what happened to Montecito
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 →
Posted in fire, Geography, Geology, infrastructure, Journalism, Links, News, Places, Politics, problems, Technology, weather, wildfire
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Tagged debris flow, flood, Montecito, mudslide, ThomasFire
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Jesusita Fire update
Where most of my earlier shots in this series were of fire detection and spread across time, the one above (and in the larger linked shot, on Flickr) is of “fire radiative power”. If you look at the whole set, … Continue reading →
Posted in Gear, Geology, infrastructure, Life, News, Past, Photography, Places, problems, Science, Travel
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Tagged fire, jesusita, Jesusitafire, LaCumbre Peak, Montecito, Pacific, Santa Barbarta, Santa Ynez Mountains, South Coast
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#JesusitaFire postpile for 9 May
(Scroll to the bottom for my latest. Not the latest, just mine.) The shot above looks west from the eastern flank of the Jesusita fire, above Montecito. The overlays are MODIS (the dots and squares) and GEOMAC (the red line). … Continue reading →
Posted in Geology, infrastructure, Journalism, Life, News, Photography, Places, problems, Travel
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Tagged "Santa Barbara", "Tea Fire", california, fire, firefighters, firefighting, Gap Fire, jesusita, Jesusita Fire, knx, ktms, ktyd, Montecito, noozhawk, Pacific, Painted Cave, Painted Cave Fire, Paradise Valley, Santa Ynez Mountains, South Coast, wildfire
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Tea Fire aftermath
Before: After: I just put up a gallery of shots I took as the sun was going down today, and the evacuation barricades were lifted — at least from some of the Tea Fire burn area. The aerial shot above … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogging, News, Photography, Places, VRM
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Tagged "Santa Barbara", "Sheffield Reservoir" "West Mountain Drive" "Live Searc, "Tea Fire", "Tea Wildfire", Montecito
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Santa Barbara Fire update
Well, the Tea Fire has been upstaged by the Sylmar Fire. (Both links are to LA Times stories. Do LA Times stories still drift behind a paywall after a week? Not sure. If so, I’ll change them to more permanent … Continue reading →
Posted in Life, News, problems
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Tagged "City 2.0", "LA Times", "Santa Barbara", "Sylmar Fire", "Tea Fire", edhat, fire, independent, KCLU, Montecito, noozhawk, Photography
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What’s Happened vs. What’s Happening
The fire in Santa Barbara is officially called the Tea Incident, because it started near (or at) a (or the) tea house, on Mountain Road in Montecito. (Here? Ah, no, here.) There are lots of good places to see what’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Events, Journalism, News, Places, problems, Travel
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Tagged "Las Canoas", "Marty Blum", "Mount Calvary Retreat House and Monastery", "Mount Calvary", "Rattlesnake Canyon", "Santa Barbara", "tea house", "Tea Incident", "Westmont College", fire, martybloom, monastery, Montecito, riviera, teaincident, westmont, wildfire
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