Up in Smoke

3.0L · 08-18-2021, 10:31 AM

We're burning up here in California. Still another fire started yesterday, east of Sacramento, the Caldor fire. Super hot with huge, high flames. More evacuations.

BMW F22 · 08-18-2021, 10:34 AM

Wow crazy. Was visiting family in Sactown over the weekend and it was already super hot. Can’t imagine what it’s like with the fire. Air quality is shit now and will likely be affected this weekend.

TiMSport · 08-18-2021, 11:13 AM

The entire state seems to be one gigantic fire over the past few years. It's startling.

Tommy-G · 08-18-2021, 11:21 AM

I'm pretty naive with fires like this. Are most started by careless smokers? Arson? The world spontaneously combusting?

shiftdnb · 08-18-2021, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Tommy-G

I'm pretty naive with fires like this. Are most started by careless smokers? Arson? The world spontaneously combusting?

Draught and dry conditions where lightening strikes, careless smokers, even catalytic converters will pretty much start it if you've driven for a bit then park in some grass.

KenB925 · 08-18-2021, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Tommy-G

I'm pretty naive with fires like this. Are most started by careless smokers? Arson? The world spontaneously combusting?

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Originally Posted by shiftdnb

Draught and dry conditions where lightening strikes, careless smokers, even catalytic converters will pretty much start it if you've driven for a bit then park in some grass.

and unmaintained power lines

dreamingat30fps · 08-18-2021, 12:47 PM

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and unmaintained power lines

This. My friend who lives in CA says a lot of the time it's crappy power lines.

We were in some area I think in Oregon in 2019 that had some wild fires going and the sky and everything was just full of smoke. It was horrible I don't know how people can live like that.

Germanauto · 08-18-2021, 01:11 PM

Nothing significant in SoCal yet, but I'm sure come Sept/Oct there will be.

I remember last year for a solid week it was smokey out. Couldn't even see the beach from PCH.

KennyFSU · 08-18-2021, 01:16 PM

CA is a crazy state; at one point it was on fire, flooding, snowing, and suffering droughts all at the same time.

Best of luck!

upstatedoc · 08-18-2021, 03:15 PM

Came in here to see a YouTube clip of Cheech and Chong. Those wildfires are nuts. A couple weeks back the sky here was a hazy orange and I could swear I smelled smoke. They said it was from the wildfires in California and Canada

mapleleaf1773 · 08-18-2021, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by upstatedoc

Came in here to see a YouTube clip of Cheech and Chong. Those wildfires are nuts. A couple weeks back the sky here was a hazy orange and I could swear I smelled smoke. They said it was from the wildfires in California and Canada

At least you didn't come in here to see the Corsican Brothers

2000cs · 08-18-2021, 04:57 PM

This site is weather, but it has a fire overlay you can click on in the lower right of the screen to see fires around the world.

https://zoom.earth/

MsGoGoMoto · 08-18-2021, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

We're burning up here in California. Still another fire started yesterday, east of Sacramento, the Caldor fire. Super hot with huge, high flames. More evacuations.

Wait… ANOTHER FIRE?.

I'm so sorry to hear this. Hope you're not in any danger

SCREAM3R · 08-19-2021, 12:15 PM

This is how it is in CA now. Where I grew up in the foothills we would get snow 4-5 times a year, they haven't had snow since 2013. And before that it was already down to 1-2 times a year. To see the weather change in just 20 or so years is shocking.

King Rudi · 08-19-2021, 01:01 PM

"I thought I smelled someone barbecuing"

-Sweet Brown

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Tommy-G Captain 4605 Rep 694 Posts Drives: 2015 435 Vert Alpine White Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Bradenton FL iTrader: (0)	I'm pretty naive with fires like this. Are most started by careless smokers? Arson? The world spontaneously combusting?
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SCREAM3R Private 65 Rep 59 Posts Drives: 2009 BMW M3 Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: California iTrader: (1)	This is how it is in CA now. Where I grew up in the foothills we would get snow 4-5 times a year, they haven't had snow since 2013. And before that it was already down to 1-2 times a year. To see the weather change in just 20 or so years is shocking.
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