Sometimes, houses were saved because...
Actually, what burns in a wildfire is much more about luck than anything. When I left my yard in 1993 during the Altadena Fire, the roof on the house across the street was on fire --with ten-foot flames shooting out under the tile -- 95% of the house didn't burn -- while every other house on the street--including mine--was burned to the ground.
At my sister's house, houses on all sides of her house were destroyed -- her house has some heat damage -- but it survived.
Sometimes, houses were saved because of goal-line stands by fire fighters and/or residents, but fire is much more fickle than you might think.
Mark
Secondary Effects Starting for Palisades
There has just been an evacuation warning issued for the area around the Palisades fire. Rain is turning the burned out forest land to mud and holds the potential for major landslides.
AZBuck
Mudflows in Eaton Canyon area too
And a similar story in the Altadena area.
The other side of the storms are the mudflows in the fire areas. Look at this video from the outflow side of the Sierra Madre Dam in southern California!
When you look at the link above, set the playback at 12 hours -- in the lower right. Most of the night, it is just rain, but it gets light at about 5:30 am and it is just water streaming, but by about 11:30 am, the water turns to a muddy water flow.
Bummer, the camera lost power at 1:54 PM.
Mark
Still Digging and removing Dirt
Work continues as the rain has gone for a couple of days.
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 8th at 2:25 pm PST
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Men-at-work continues
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 10h at 8:40 am PDT
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Maybe this is the new level for the time being?
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 10th at 3:54 pm PDT
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They moved the camera over a tad so can see more of the dam.
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 11th at 9:53 am PDT
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Opening the channels so water--and less mud--- is able to flow by
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 13th at 10 am PDT
Still Digging and removing Dirt
A whole lot of activity today at the Sierra Made Dam:
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 20th at 1:10 pm PDT
Men and their trucks continue to have fun
And the loading begins again today!
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 24th at 9:13 am PDT
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This is the most trucks I've seen on this project at once!
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...raMadreDam.jpg
March 24th at 10:30 am PDT
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And work continues at the Bailey Canyon Debris Basin as well.
https://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog...ailey_1118.jpg
March 24th at 11:18 am PDT
