alt Hacker NewsI find it all amusing. A few hundred or thousand acres burn in NY/NJ and everyone loses their shit. Watching the newscasts, governor and other admins talk about the issue they make it seem like something we have never witnessed before as a human race. Meanwhile in my home state of California (often mocked and judged by the rest of the nation), they are dealing with fires that burn hundreds of thousands of acres.
NY: "Statewide, there are currently six wildfires in New York State encompassing nearly 6,031 acres, including the Jennings Creek/Sterling State Park fire. "
CA: 1,040,146 acres burned this year.
So next time you wanna talk shit about California and how they handle wildfires, take a look at the amateur hour response from the east coast first.
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This is how everything works. Systems that aren't designed to handle an event are unlikely to handle it well. Where I live, we got 4 inches of rain in 20 minutes yesterday. That was a Tuesday. From the time I've spent out west, I believe in that place it would be disaster level flooding.
I too am in the heart of fire country but I don't find unexpected disaster coming from global warming to be amusing.
There's no doubt that climate change will shift the centers of disasters from one place to another (there's speculation about California getting tropical storms [1]). But I'd say you should only able to laugh or throw snark about this if you're also doing something about it.
[1] https://science.nasa.gov/earth/extreme-weather-events/study-...
Let nobody deny California is the best at burning to a crisp
They are different places with different weather and different expectations. This cannot be surprising to anyone.
This comes off as really immature and weirdly defensive. Of course places that hardly ever get wildfires are taking it extremely seriously. If Los Angeles got 3 feet of snow it would be a really big deal, but in Buffalo that's just winter.
> California (often mocked and judged by the rest of the nation)
Being this defensive about your state is ridiculous. And don't pretend people in California never mock people from the "flyover" states.