The official weather thread

[Moliere]

Edit: why are photos posted from my camera so blurry now? Didn’t used to be the case.

The haze in the air???

[mtnbiker]

My brother said that just 6 weeks ago some friends tried to convince him and his wife to retire in Paradise. He thought at the time that it looked like a big tinderbox. Fortunately, the friends were able to evacuate, but ended up spending the night in their car because all the motels in nearby safe areas were full.

[SteelBlue]

56.

[SteelBlue]

Death toll climbs again tonight as it is likely to do most nights for a long time. In other unfortunate news tonight, they have finally synced the info from the three missing persons hotlines and the number of missing is now over 600.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Death toll climbs again tonight as it is likely to do most nights for a long time. In other unfortunate news tonight, they have finally synced the info from the three missing persons hotlines and the number of missing is now over 600.

My goodness. That is horrible.

[Bo Diddley]

Death toll climbs again tonight as it is likely to do most nights for a long time. In other unfortunate news tonight, they have finally synced the info from the three missing persons hotlines and the number of missing is now over 600.

Unreal. That makes me sick to my stomach.

[BigPiney]

That is so devasting.

[SteelBlue]

Number of missing now at 1,011. This is unreal.

[Soccermom]

Number of missing now at 1,011. This is unreal.

Oh my gosh. So horrible.

[Uncle Ted]

This is terrible. Is there an estimate of how many homes were lost so far?

I am betting PG&E is going to need to raise their rates again given one of these recent fires may have been caused by their power lines and/or equipment... someone has to pay!

Governor signs bill allowing utilities to increase fees to pay for fire settlements

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a measure allowing utilities to bill their customers to pay for future legal settlements stemming from devastating 2017 wildfires.


Brown announced Friday he'd signed the bill, which is aimed at preventing bankruptcy for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The massive utility faces billions of dollars in liability if investigators determine its equipment caused the Tubbs Fire that destroyed thousands of homes and killed 22 people in Santa Rosa last year.
[...]

https://krcrtv.com/news/local/govern...QIDRZe0zx_ARPg

Maybe they should shut off the power ever time the wind blows.

[smokymountainrain]

Number of missing now at 1,011. This is unreal.

smh. so sad.

[Northwestcoug]

I can’t even imagine what the probable death toll is going to be.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Missing now up to 1,300. Trump continues to provide helpful input, including why California needs to be more like Finland:

“I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We have a much different—we're a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things,” Trump said, making a moving motion with his hand. “And they don't have any problem.”

But yes, I suppose we won't have any problem either if we do more raking, and somehow manage to duplicate Finland in higher precipitation, substantially lower temperatures and much higher humidity. We'll get on that,

[Babs]

I can’t even imagine what the probable death toll is going to be.

It's not going to number in the thousands. The media are providing yet another disservice.

[Moliere]

It's not going to number in the thousands. The media are providing yet another disservice.

It might if they include the dogs that were left behind