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A gender reveal sparked a wildfire in California that's grown to 7,000 acres
California has just lost about 1 million acres of forest in the recent lightning caused fires and now these idiots are creating fires all on their own for a baby gender reveal party.
What is it that makes people think that they are do damn important and every tiny milestone in their lives needs to have a party of some kind?
At this time of the year in California all the forests and the chest high grasses and brush are completely bone dry.
Here's some of the juicy quotes:
A "smoke generating pyrotechnic device" used at the party caused the El Dorado Fire in San Bernardino County, Cal Fire said in a press release.Evacuations have been ordered for the communities of Oak Glen, Yucaipa Ridge, Mountain Home Village and Forest Falls. An evacuation warning is in effect for the Yucaipa bench area and Yucaipa Community Center is being used as a temporary evacuation facility, according to Cal Fire.
Modified by eDrek at Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 09:52:19
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I kinda grew up on a smallish lake that got really choppy on weekends when all the city people came to the lake with their boats.
I think that's what happened in Texas - too many boats made the water too choppy. It's a physics thing, I guess.
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YES INDEEDY
MIRACLE AT DUMBKIRK!
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I loved seeing this. Trump supporters. Assholes.
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Yep, stupid assholes. It can cost a boatload of money when your boat gets swamped or actually sinks to the bottom.
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Correction: 2 million acres have burned so far and we aren't in fire season yet.
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Hey Drek,
When one plans to use something called a "smoke generating pyrotechnic device," ought not they keep in mind this saying: "Where there's smoke, there's fire."??
Doesn't California have a list of things not to do in, um...California...due to its propensity to have multiple varieties of natural disasters?
I hope those people are jailed for their negligence. It's funny that these are Darwin Award candidates. Very sad their stupidity caused so much heartache in communities.
Modified by Cynthia at Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 16:19:25
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Yeah, it's totally nuts. I guess the 'gender reveal' thing is really huge on social media and people try to out do each other.
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The only practical solution is firebreaks around every settlement & dwelling. I realise that is probably politically impossible to mandate, so you'll just have to put up with everything burning down now & then.
Firebreaks on that scale would certainly change the look of the landscape, but if C21st man can go around covered in tattoos & dressed in post punk, then what's a few holes in the wilderness to worry about? It would be a match.(no pun intended)
Thinking about it you could gravel over the firebreak land with different colours to produce a new art form.
Or just get goats.... 
Why has this interesting utube only had 400 or so views.
Maybe because the grownups have left the room.
Related link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6HmwjPlC3g
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Well, now 401 people have watched that video. Thanks, Pat. I'm never going to get those 11 minutes back.
Actually, it was very interesting and I think that moving on up there to be a real cowboy looks like what I'm going to do next in my life so that I can enjoy a good lifestyle by getting away from all the strange city folks that you mentioned.
Modified by eDrek at Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 17:35:05
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now it's 402. 
sounds like the cattle are straying into the hills.
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right. I suspect that unless you put fence up for the whole 30 miles, the cattle won't eat where you want them to.
It's a nice idea.
Modified by eDrek at Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 20:24:55
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I've been thinking about goats again. It keeps happening. I'm back in France, hacking through brambles, bracken and stupidly high grass, again. My neighbor has goats and has just spent a fortune fencing between our land. Then I read about virtual fencing. The animals get a GPS enabled collar round their necks. They get a little shock if they go beyond a boundary. The boundaries can easily be redefined so you can control where they graze.
Sounds great to me. Maybe one day...
You could put them on people to keep them two metres apart! That would sort out the virus! Maybe one day.... Virtual fencing eh?
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my mother always warned me away from goats - they eat anything, she said. A friend of mine kept some for a while she was very fond of them but they were being attacked by a pack of wild dogs which was pretty upsetting.
me, I always thought a nice little dairy cow or two.
I've never liked the idea of electrified fencing for cows, let alone electrified collars, even for us.
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