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Saw your reporting. Thank you. My neighbors saw it floating down the river.

It is pretty gnarly. Ground is already saturated from prior atmospheric rivers. Many slides. One house 50’ down a hill into the Russian River. A lot of surface water. Best just to hunker down and stay put if not in flood zone.

@kpphotos.bsky.social Kent, are you monitoring Control2? House in River off Westside Rd above Hacienda. Slide also. Address reported as 12354 Westside Rd. Not on PulsePoint yet.

Via control 2

@joshualeone.bsky.social 12354 Westside road is in River. Most of road gone. Evacuations for nearby houses. River road now open.

Now. Evil control 2. Neighbor on Cosmo Court just saw the house floating down the river.

Hi fellas. Via Control 2. House in the River. Westside road.

And a power outage for some folks. Not most of Hacienda though.

Or brooms. Not the flammable kind, though.

Aaack. Shuddering at the thought of a repeat of the last one.

Dr. Prather has been posting about this. bsky.app/profile/kpra...

Can you do this using, e.g., the Honeywell activated carbon replacement prefilters? And do you put them on the inside of the MERV 13 filters?

The Air Quality Index (AQI) that says the air is safe in LA after the wildfires does not take into account toxic gases that form when urban materials burn at such high temps. Considers ozone, PM, NOx, SO2. My team and I are discussing going there to measure the toxins in the air (between SD & LA).

Suggest that anyone who still has a home, fill up the tank/charge the car, pack the car, back into the driveway so you’re pointed at the street, toss anything flammable away from the house or bring it inside and dump it in the spare room. And just leave all of that for a while.

Thanks for this. I am so programmed to deal with Covid and aerosols that I haven’t been paying attention to this. Back to carrying hand sanitizer. Is this in Davis?

Trump will insist on some FTEs being responsible for sweeping the forest floor. /sarcasm

Glad to see the BBC is still checking facts.

“Wildfire management” is correct. Shaded fuel breaks are not “barriers” though. They reduce accumulation of highly flammable brush, eliminate ladder fuels and keep mature trees, resulting in low intensity, beneficial fire. This allows fire fighters to steer fires around communities.

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Fingers are crossed for you. You’ve done a lot of prep.

Thank you. LA Tv stations were warning people about the fake images last night.

@ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy Are any communications facilities used by emergency services located on Mt. Wilson? I’ve seen the into re tv and radio, and hoping the emergency services equipment isn’t up there.

The next Supreme Court nominee.

@barkflight.bsky.social One idea is big rolls of aluminum insect screen from Home Depot to cover gaps/ eaves (we have charming but funky construction) & space beneath homes and decks. Can cut with tin snips. Put up fast with staple gun. $145 4’/100’ roll. The mesh is 1/16”, perfect to stop embers.

Define “truth.” Suspect you and Zuckerberg have different takes on that.

Do you know if the cell towers are holding up? Supposed to have 72 hour backup power in high/moderate fire threat areas. Same for cable and phone company networks, including those providing VoIP phone service.

@barkflight.bsky.social When you come up for air. My Russian River neighborhood working hard on ember cast. Highly recommend a film, “Elemental: Reimagine Fire.” We had a neighborhood viewing. Film has a great section on ember cast. It has led to a lot of innovative, pragmatic, cheap DIY solutions.

I’m going to stop complaining about how wet it is here [a canyon on the Russian River].

(UPDATING) Humboldt Responds to Big Offshore Earthquake

Solid info from a reliable local source [I have a home there]. lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/dec/5/u...

Just canceled it on Humboldt Coast. Have a house there and am following on Broadcastify. Lots of traffic jams with people moving to higher ground.

7.0 earthquake off the Humboldt Coast. Tsunami alerts for Humboldt, Mendocino, San Francisco counties.