N4521U
Colonel
A perfectly gloomy day!
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When we were down in Trinidad and Tobago, you could almost set your watch by the rain. Almost every day it would start at 2:00 pm and quit 20 minutes later.It's been raining every freaking day since I got here. I hear good things about saunas but this is ridiculous.
Isn't that for fires as well?Despite the forecast zero rain before the 12th late yesterday we got a five minute storm that dropped 6mm followed by a high wind that will dry the ground out very quickly, if any actually soaked in anywhere except the fissures. Being so heavy most will have run off.
Our new neighbour has been complaining that the council made him cut down all trees within 25metres of the new house he is building.
This morning he came to borrow the chainsaw and tractor to cut up and dispose of a tree that came down in the wind and only just missed the house. Now he understands why. The particular tree must have been close to 40m high or he cheated on the 25m clear zone.
I remember a while ago a local council was taking a guy to court for clearing trees around his house. Fire ensued while proceedings were underway and his house was the only one to survive.Yes, primarily it is, but city people who have just moved to the country have difficulty realising it. This guy now realises that if that tree was on fire his house would have been a goner or if a tree close to the house had dropped on it he would have lost it all. He is now also considering my recommendations of shutters and a diesel fire pump.
Shutters because most houses are lost because radiant heat ignites the curtains. A diesel pump because when the electricity fails your electric pump becomes a decorative ornament. Having stop cocks on the gutters and filling the gutters with water saves the leaves and other rubbish in the gutters catching fire and starting a fire inside the roof.
Here in California, the rural areas have a 100 foot (30 meters) recommendation for fuels clearance (tall brush and ladder fuels). Trees inside that zone are acceptable as long as they're trimmed to 8 feet (2 1/5 meters) above the ground. Our trees here are mostly fire resistant as long as fire is prevented from getting into the crown (the tree's upper storey).Yes, primarily it is, but city people who have just moved to the country have difficulty realising it. This guy now realises that if that tree was on fire his house would have been a goner or if a tree close to the house had dropped on it he would have lost it all. He is now also considering my recommendations of shutters and a diesel fire pump.
Shutters because most houses are lost because radiant heat ignites the curtains. A diesel pump because when the electricity fails your electric pump becomes a decorative ornament. Having stop cocks on the gutters and filling the gutters with water saves the leaves and other rubbish in the gutters catching fire and starting a fire inside the roof.