Its the best thing ever!

Second'd my wife got me a bird buddy feeder for valentines day, best valentines day present ever!

because of what we know from our nat hazards experience in today's world... people are going to have to sensibly feel the impacts or directly observe that its "real" to snap out of it. Indirectly wont do it. There will be an awful lot of suffering that will happen in the interim.

I'm in the same boat, i cant discern what's worse off. However, i am strongly convinced a lot of people are going to have to sensibly feel the pain to snap us as country/society out of this. And yes its sucks.

And like us from the weather enterprise know, people need direct evidence of the threat to them personally, not the external environment, to act and also have to suffer sensible personal impacts to change belief systems. And thats the awful part of where we are...

fortuitous wind vector...

The Eaton polygons and the CALFIRE DINS data. In both you had so few CA Bldg Code Ch7A built homes, it made no difference and wasnt close to any "herd immunity" level.

Palisades you could visualize conflagration "streaks" where ember-driven ignitions led to structure-structure. Eaton (opinion) conflagration happened so fast. We have noted using simple ember transport models, in both, all destroyed structures fall in our "ember impact zone" just from wildland fuels

Eaton though was more bi-modal, and not an exponential as you might expect... even more dense and older single-family construction with less building elements that would have been considered more fire resistant.

It certainly has its complexities. We looked at Palisades under our neighborhood framework. In an "unmitigated" environment you get this. Can we use more separation + hardening elements as a buffer to allow more dense construction elsewhere? I think we can.