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posted by martyb on Sunday August 05 2018, @07:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the definitely-does-NOT-look-like-Kansas-any-more dept.

KTLA-TV reports:

As authorities sifted the rubble from the fire that burned more than 1,000 residences in Shasta County, they were startled by what they encountered. A soaring transmission tower was tipped over. Tiles were torn off the roofs of homes. Massive trees were uprooted.

Vehicles were moved. In one spot, a fence post was bent around a tree, with the bark on one side sheared off.

[...] This was not typical wildfire damage. Rather, it was strong evidence of a giant, powerful spinning vortex that accompanied the Carr fire on July 26. The tornado-like condition, lasting an hour and a half and fueled by extreme heat and intensely dry brush as California heats up to record levels, was captured in dramatic videos that have come to symbolize the destructive power of what is now California's sixth-most destructive fire.

Wikipedia has an article on fire whirls.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday August 06 2018, @03:22PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday August 06 2018, @03:22PM (#717863) Homepage Journal

    Caltech's Dabney House threw a party at which a large pile of lineprinter paper was burned.

    Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5", I grabbed a cafeteria tray then started _tangentially_ fanning the flames.

    It was not long at all before I had several helpers.

    Hilarity Ensued.

    Slaughterhouse 5 is a rather bizarre account of Vonnegut's experience as a Prisoner Of War in a slaughterhouse that was converted to a POW camp.

    Throughout the war, the Allies struggled to start firestorms in several important German cities, but with no success. When they finally succeeded with Dresden many recoiled in horror and disbelief because Dresden was not in any way of military significance.

    To firestorm a city, the wind and the weather has to be just right. The first wave of bombers drops explosive bombs so as to drive all the firemen into bomb shelters. Then two waves of bombers fly over the city dropping incendiaries in an "X" shape.

    Not long ago I leafed through a collection of Vonnegut's unpublished writing that was prepared after his death. It included his handwritten letter to his family, telling them that he was still alive and had recently been liberated by the Allies. That letter goes on to report several incidents in which Allied bombers dropped bombs on Allied troops, killing a great many of them.

    That often happens because of what's known as "The Fog Of War".

    Have A Nice Day! KTHXBAI

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Monday August 06 2018, @05:29PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday August 06 2018, @05:29PM (#717916) Homepage Journal

    Big success for our great and very brave military in Dresden. But they did INCREDIBLY WELL in Tokyo. Fire and fury, the likes of which this world had ever seen before. No nuclear. It looked just like nuclear, but it wasn't. Just regular bombs. And now I have MUCH BIGGER bombs -- also not nuclear. My military guys dropped one on Afghanistan. So beautiful!!!