Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fires are usually pretty much under control here unless we are getting a Santa Ana Wind or Foehn (winds coming from the east due to a high pressure system). We have, I believe, a 16 state cooperative agreement where when one state has an out of control fire, the other states send response teams. I have seen the fuel mapping of the 16 states and they can fight fire pretty high tech. Our climate is a lot like the east coast of Australia except we do not have the climate of the extreme northeast of Australia. The big debate here is whether it is better to let wildfires burn or suppress them. BTW, you can get a lot of this info and a lot about Leica by joining NewnetIRC and joining the #leica channel. The featured people there include GeeBee, SonC (sonny carter), Kyle Cassidy under various names (he is currently favoring rats), Colin (lights from the former world trade center), JimmyP (some really buff body builders), Rob (some fantastic pixes of Novia Scotia), Alistair from Australia. Don't be upset if no one immediately responds... most have day jobs that allow them to respond eventually. I have three clocks in my home office. One set to my time 20:20 hours pacific daylight saving time, one set to east England 06:20 gmt, and east Australia 15:20 I think the next day. i.e I am + 8 hours from UTM. Time confuses me. But a lot of us can continue to build this rather weird channel, where I have never heard an insulting word. More like a mutual support group. Regards, Bill - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html