What caused such damage in the California wildfires?

"It was a disaster waiting to happen!

If you combine 200 million dead trees, dated infrastructure and poor maintenance, add into the mix a severe drought and 75 miles an hour humidity free winds you can expect the deadliest week of wildfires in California's history."

Questions about the California fires

In recent days unprecedented wildfires have swept through California’s wine-growing country that has scorched 220,000 acres, destroyed an estimated 5,700 structures and caused at least 40 deaths with many hundreds missing.

There is no doubt (although the mainstream media won’t really tell you this) that this was driven by abrupt climate change conditions combined with “200 million dead trees, dated infrastructure and poor maintenance, add into the mix a severe drought and 75 miles an hour humidity free winds”.

Were the fires lit or caused by downed power lines?

Paul Beckwith has done an excellent an excellent job, by looking at Nullschool and particulate levels, of showing how the fires started simultaneously in various locations over a very short period of time (literally an hour or so).

At the end of the video he posits the question whether these fires were deliberately lit.

It then appeared that the fires were caused by power lines downed by “hurricane-force winds”.

This according to the electricity company PG & E.

On Tuesday, the Bay Area News Group reported that Sonoma County emergency dispatchers sent fire crews to at least 10 reports of downed power lines and exploding transformers as the North Bay fires were starting around 9:22 p.m.

In response, PG&E said that “hurricane strength winds in excess of 75 mph in some cases” had damaged their equipment, but they said it was too early to speculate about what started the fires.

Turns out that the winds were only half the level cited by the company, insufficient to bring down so many power lines in such a short period of time.

According to an article by the Mercury News the problem was one of lack of maintenance by the electricity company.

California Winds Are Fueling Fires. It May Be Getting Worse

Dry Diablo winds of 70 mph fueled the fires

The fires have been fanned by winds that blow off the desert called Diablo winds. This year, on top of extremely dry conditions in drought conditions have reached 70 mph.

California fire mystery: PG&E lines fell in winds that weren’t ‘hurricane strength’

The winds, known as Diablo winds in Northern California and Santa Ana winds further south, have their origin in the high desert of the Great Basin of Nevada and parts of Utah. High-pressure air that builds over that region flows toward lower-pressure air over California and the coast.

Along the way the air descends to lower elevations, which causes it to compress and become hotter and drier. The air picks up speed as it descends and funnels through canyons or across peaks that are lower than their neighbors.

This creates perfect conditions for these fires to spread very quickly.

Questions about the nature of the damage

Very soon before-and-after shots began appearing on social media which showed a huge level of damage to whole neighbourhoods and my first impressions were that these fires were totally unprecedented in their scale and ferocity. However, I didn't ask any further questions until information appeared which showed the scale and nature of the damage.

In particular, I was interested in this particular video which appeared a few days ago, made by a woman discussing the damage.

"There is something wrong here, the melting/ burning point of common household materials like glass (2600℉) and stainless steel (2800℉) are DOUBLE the temperature of house and forest fires (1100℉)"

What she points out is that everything in the path of the fire was reduced to rubble and dust (as if hit by a nuke in the words of one fireman) - all the contents of houses such as porcelain toilets, fridges - everything. 

She has clearly done her research and cites the temperatures needed to melt steel and glass - almost "furnace-like" conditions. All the while she shows how trees nearby - even pine trees- remained intact along with twigs on the ground- unburnt.

Yesterday someone posted pictures of burnt-out cars with melted aluminium that reminded me of the lead I used to melt as a child from lead nails.

 

Fire burning inside a hollow tree

Last night this follow-up video was posted.

Something turned these houses into in furnaces to allow for near complete combustion... the evidence of what we are seeing defies the laws of physics for an open air fire, I have ALREADY documented the wind speeds were marginal for the areas at the time the fires started. The fat that a tree is burning AS IF IT IS A FURNACE is noteworthy and should be of great concern to anyone educated prior to 1995 when physics and chemistry actually taught us what is possible with a mere open air burn v a furnace. TOTAL combustion of material is NOT possible outside of a furnace, yet that is exactly the damage we are observing with temps reaching high enough values to MELT GLASS.. 

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In particular, she referred to the following

A comparison

In an attempt to find out what one would expect in fires like this I decided to look at the February, 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria Australia where conditions were much hotter (and probably as dry) and the winds were of a similar speed and nature.

The devastation was terrible but the photos seem to confirm that while bushfires can act in cvery unpredictable ways what one would expect in an analogous situation is for structures to remain at leasd recognisable rather than be turned into dust.

The conspiracy theories

I have always been comfortable asking questions and just staying with the question without jumping to immediate answers. That is what I have been doing with the Las Vegas shooting. Often the accumulating evidence gives rise to further very uncomfortable questions.

That is how it feels in this case.

I asked on Facebook if anyone had any rational explanations for the above phenomena.

The responses were mostly underwhelming and obviously just as much off-the-cuff and unthinking as those who rush to judgement on weather wars and the like.

Other explanations helped one small part of the questions (such as the melting of aluminium or trees not burning where there is lots of concrete).

My litmus test is when people start to bandy around terms like "conspiracy theory" or ridicule people asking questions as "dingbats" or "fruitloops".

That makes me immediately suspicious there might be something in what is being said.

My response yesterday to all this was:

"None of these explanations satisfies me in the least. You just need to look into the photos to see that something is untoward. Unless you believe trees don't burn in forest fires. 

I am most unwilling to get into any conspiracy theories, but the question remains. I refuse to get into all the weather wars shit, not because it is impossible or not happening but because the people who are proponents of such theories are denying what is undeniable - abrupt anthropogenic climate change.

There is no reason why this cannot be happening in parallel unless you believe that the government is magnanimous (or believe in the tooth fairy)."

I have been fierce in my denunciation of people who have tried to persuade me that extreme weather is fully explained by chemtrails, weather wars and the like. 

The simplest objection is that these events don't stop in the United States (unlike the minds of those who dream all this up) - the evil-doers must be very busy creating extreme weather in many parts of the world, sometimes simultaneously. 

It is ludicrous.

However, by the same token I think it is wrong to say that this is all impossible and governments (especially the U.S government, the #1 terrorist nation on the planet) are incapable of such evil.

We have a lot of people who acknowledge abrupt climate change who are closet supporters of Clinton and the Dems and think it is all impossible - unless of course, it is Trump or Putin and the Russians.

Such people can denounce eminently-sensible people like Debbie Sane Progressive, saying "there is no conspiracy theory she does not believe in".

I find all this equally preposterous.

There are plenty of people out there who have definitive explanations (at least in their own minds) of what is behind this - the most common being DEWS or Directed Energy Weapons.

I am not into jumping to such conclusions quickly and prefer to stick with the questions but my response without going too deeply into this (and I do not have the time, energy or inclination to go down that particular rabbithole) is why not?

In these times when Democrats can rejoice in disasters in Texas and Florida and Republicans can rejoice in disasters in Puerto Rico and California and we have a putative false flag event in Las Vegas, and where the populace is distracted with yet another scandal (like the Harvey Weinstein one in Hollywood) when the official narrative on another scandal collapses the question is certainly why the hell not

We live in very strange times.

If I could imagine a Stalinist Russia or a nazi Germany with modern, electronic media and social media then I feel we have the United States today.

Most people will, of course, tie themselves in knots in the attempt to tell themselves that none of this is true - or at least that Putin (or Trump) did it!

In the meantime I will leave you with what some people are saying about the fires and what lies behind them.

So long as this is not used in an attempt to deny or deflect away from the truth of what we know about catastrophic and abrupt anthropogenic climate change I really don't mind.

Jim Stone: California Fires Were Not “Wild” They Were Engineered

How could you possibly get 66 widely spaced massive wildfires appearing instantly with no natural weather causing them, growing rapidly, with perfectly calm weather before, sudden massive winds at the initiation of the fires, blue sparks in the air, malfunctioning electronics, and in some people heart palpitations? My answer: just ask Darpa.