ThomasFire
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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 civic infrastructure (roads, water, electric, gas) can be fixed. It’s a huge thing. The big… Continue reading
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Doing the after math
When I flew out of California on the 14th, this blog was still working. When I went here to post about the Thomas Fire on 15th, it wasn’t. (Somebody later told me Harvard was moving servers around, so maybe that was it.) But then the fire looked to be under control. It wasn’t. On the… Continue reading
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#ThomasFire live
[Update: 7:22am Monday December 11] Two views of ThomasFire developments. First, MODIS fire detections, plotted on Google Earth Pro, current at 7am Pacific time: Second, a screenshot of the NCWG (National Wildfire Coordinating Group) map of the area, 7:18am Pacific time: On the map itself, you can click on each of those squares and get… Continue reading