You forgot power blackouts.

 

Yeah it seems to be a combination of dry forest conditions, high winds, and some fool (or utility company) that provides the spark to start it all. Forest fires are a natural process of regeneration, it just doesn't work well when people build homes around those forests.

 

Three days of lightning strikes are highly unusual too!

 

I could ask why people on the east coast keep building their homes right on the beach?
We don't have tornados, or very very rarely. Also very low humidity, and that's something the south and east deals with daily, in summer.

 

CA never has hurricanes.

Or these. Most of CA doesn't have these



I was surprised that I have them in Colorado.

 

Nah - that global warming stuff is just another deep state hoax!

 

Isn't that the state bird of Mississippi ?

 

Definitely, I once had a Geography professor who regularly stated that those who choose to live on bodies of water, will at some point in time find themselves in those bodies of water. I also never understood why people are allowed to build homes on floodplains.

 

For awhile people were getting money from the government to rebuild their beachhouses everytime they were destroyed in a hurricane and they were building them bigger and better each time. In my opinion you might as well live where you want as their are downsides to just about every geographic location.
They were saying on the news that these latest fires were started by all the lightning strikes and of course the dry conditions.

 

My son moved back from Monterey, CA last year and he is so glad he made the move. He is getting notification from sheriff's office via his phone to evacuate as he signed up from the previous wild fire when he lived there. Smoke and ashes make breathing difficult according to his friends who still live there. It is truly unfortunate for those who are in that predicament. With more wind, situation is getting more difficult.