> get lamp

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/19/breaking-evacuations-begin-as-winds-reignite-fires-in-santa-cruz-mountains-czu-burn-scar/

UGGGHHH could we not

The Virgo in me (which is all of me, lbr) is annoyed that the imprecise use of "mega" to mean "very big" now has us calling the million-acre Mendocino fire complex a "gigafire" because we had to go up a level to express the change in order of magnitude. I am not seriously proposing starting to use "kilofire", but this would be a gigafire - 1 billion out of the approximately 1.9 billion acres of the continental U.S.:



(Granted there's probably a lot of the desert southwest that would be an effective firebreak through lack of vegetation, but that would have been too much research and guesswork. I constrained to the borders with Canada and Mexico because of course antifa people aren't setting fires in Canada and Mexico has that lovely wall to protect them, right?)

Man, it's the day without dawn out there. It was so dim at 11 AM that the porchlight was still on. Kinda worried for people in Oregon who are being evacuated now. At least the smoke is high up and not worsening the air quality as much as it could be. And I... guess? the cooler temperature could be called? a good side effect? I mean yeah it's kinda whatever the wildfire equivalent is of nuclear/volcanic winter, but Sunday we were breaking triple-digit records all over the place. It was supposed to be cooler today but still almost 90; in fact it is only about 65 degrees outside at the moment.