Re:Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would b...
by mindcrime on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:56AM
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FWIW, I gave your post an upvote, but I will nitpick this ever so slightly:
Wildfires make the news bc they are inconvenient, but largely impact rural areas.
The idea that wildifires are just "woods burning out in the middle of nowhere" is, if not inaccurate, at least incomplete. There is, in the United States, a substantial amount of what is called "Wildland / Urban Interface" zones where urban areas impinge on adjacent wildland areas. And homes and other structures being built in those interface zones are a huge problem when large scale wildfires break out. And while large-scale loss of life due to wildfires isn't commonplace, massive property damage is at times.
That said, I wouldn't classify wildfires as a "destabilizing" level problem. But the impact of wildfires should not be trivialized either.
Wildfires make the news bc they are inconvenient, but largely impact rural areas.
The idea that wildifires are just "woods burning out in the middle of nowhere" is, if not inaccurate, at least incomplete. There is, in the United States, a substantial amount of what is called "Wildland / Urban Interface" zones where urban areas impinge on adjacent wildland areas. And homes and other structures being built in those interface zones are a huge problem when large scale wildfires break out. And while large-scale loss of life due to wildfires isn't commonplace, massive property damage is at times.
That said, I wouldn't classify wildfires as a "destabilizing" level problem. But the impact of wildfires should not be trivialized either.
Ref:
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildland%E2%80%93urban_interfa...
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314