Re: west coast fires

If I lived in a high fire danger area, I'd have a good supply of 
protective gel on hand: See http://www.thermogel.com/
or 
http://www.barricadegel.com/.

Susan G

David V. wrote:
> Randy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> ok, makes a little more sense. I thought you meant all trees and grass 
>> cleared. That would be kind of ugly. We have lots of
>>  trees and grass and are surrounded by thousands of acres of forest.  
>> But we keep the dead wood and dried brush cleared out
>>  and most of the trees are trimmed fairly well.
> 
> It all depends on what the person wants - a house or scenery.
> Those people are no different than those that build in flood
> plains or low spots in hurricane territory. They know it is an
> area prone to frequent natural disasters. There are large fires
> in that area annually. If I lived in that area; I'd have 500 feet
> of DIRT around my house, a metal roof and no eaves to trap
> heat..... but then when, not if, a fire went through I'd have the
> only house for miles around. Might be nice.
> 
> Also notice that these are big expensive houses with full
> insurance coverage. They'll just take the insurance money and
> build a bigger house. That's what they did after a large fire in
> the Oakland Hills.
> 
> This is the kind of fire we have in our area:
> http://www.mariposaresearch.net/HARLOWFIRE.html
> 
> That was 20,000 acres in two hours! I'm not kidding!
>