Yep, I need to revise this, as now more than 63 folks have lost their lives, with over 600 missing. It's being labeled as the worst natural disaster in modern US history (not sure if that's totally correct). It is nevertheless a devastating occurrence.
VR, Russ

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Yep, I need to revise this, as now more than 63 folks have lost their lives, with over 600 missing. It's being labeled as the worst natural disaster in modern US history (not sure if that's totally correct). It is nevertheless a devastating occurrence.
VR, Russ

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Not to really debate the issue since Paul Fisher lost everything (that does suck for him and our industry, never owned a kit but seen the resin up close and they are beauties) and more people lost a lot more but Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Katrina and the heat wave of 1995 and 1980 have taken more folks even if you add in the missing.

People (not you) have short memories, there have been other bad natural disasters in the not do distant past. Sad part is unlike a lot of other natural disasters, forest fires can managed/mitigated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll

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Yep, I need to revise this, as now more than 63 folks have lost their lives, with over 600 missing. It's being labeled as the worst natural disaster in modern US history (not sure if that's totally correct). It is nevertheless a devastating occurrence.
VR, Russ

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Not to really debate the issue since Paul Fisher lost everything (that does suck for him and our industry, never owned a kit but seen the resin up close and they are beauties) and more people lost a lot more but Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Katrina and the heat wave of 1995 and 1980 have taken more folks even if you add in the missing.

People (not you) have short memories, there have been other bad natural disasters in the not do distant past. Sad part is unlike a lot of other natural disasters, forest fires can managed/mitigated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll

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Your statement is true, However, I would simply say the folks in the paths of hurricanes and storms usually have ample warning since they are semi-predictable, sometimes up to a week in advance, and usually something can be salvaged afterwards in some cases. In this case, the town of Paradise CA had only a couple of hours of warning at best. Some folks had only minutes, and many were trapped on the roads trying to exit the area. The Santa Anna winds were blowing in excess of 50 miles an hour, with multiple "Firenados" spinning up to 80 miles an hour or more. The only comparison to that would have been the bombing of Dresden during WWII. Imagine hurricane force winds, laden with fire, with nothing surviving in its path. I'd take my chances in a hurricane, at least the oxygen wouldn't be sucked out of the air. In fairness, a hurricane has a wider path of devastation, but these wildfires tend to spare nothing in their path. Literally everything goes up in smoke.
VR, Russ