Why was this one house spared by a fire that ravaged all the surrounding homes in Lahaina? And, can these practices be used to protect other homes in areas where wildfires are more common? - Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com
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RNG, this is for you.
who would think your favorite rose bush could burn your house down...
metal roof makes a lot of sense and I thought the idea of putting screen mesh over all openings
was important. I think most would be covered anyway, to keep out the critters, but now that screen is even
more important
of course keeping everything noncombustible within a couple hundred feet of your house sure does a number
on landscaping with plants and shade trees.
maybe we could get some artificial fireproof trees...
I was thinking of the early inhabitants of that hot area, likely living in Adobe homes.
and no local landscaping. The American Indians had it right.
Or they would take down a teepee and hustle out of there.
had to look that up. Tipi: Lakota for dwelling
I grew up in the woods, woods came up to back yard of house. Never worried about it.
We get enough rain here in Eastern PA there is rarely a drought.
Fire company did have to come once to put a small brush fire out in our woods, 50 years ago.
I don't remember what started it. Thankfully we had a small bulldozed forest road down to the stream in the middle of the woods
and the fire company brush truck was able to drive down that.
Now if I were over in the NJ Pine Barrens, this becomes very real.
Sorry you folks in Texas and S/W are so hot. Dangerous for older folks and you get stuck inside when you want to
go out. Along with other spares, sounds like having spare hvac capacitors is a good idea.
at least you don't have power problems this year.
temps here have been average to I think below average for August.
probably means it's overly hot somewhere else due to some blocking high or whatever, or position of jet stream.
nice to know why but you can't do much about it...
