Blade Runner: San Francisco - drone footage of red skies after bay Area blazes

[editor]

Striking footage:



Best comment: " Imagine if someone a year ago was transported here. All with people wearing masks and all businesses closed...they would think the world ended"

 

[Aladdin]

 

[Nylock]

Seen some footage from Oregon today... The place looks like fucking mordor: blood red sky, raining ash, twilight dark at midday...

 

[Detroit City]

hmm looks pretty similar, minus the flying cars

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Interesting article about the reasons for the serious fires - an aversion to controlled burns to reduce the fuel loads.

They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad.

www.propublica.org