I always heard that lightning will strike whatever's tallest, or closest to the sky: that's why lightning rods work, and that's why you don't sit under a tall tree in the middle of a field during a storm.But the other day, I saw a picture of lightning hitting the water when a boat was nearby. Clearly, the boat was taller than the water (no gigantic waves or anything), so what happened?
Hosing them down continually may have been going on - I remember an Austrian village catching fire and they only way some didn't burn down was because they had hoses on them almost continually, until the water supply ran out - it was half-way up a mountain. Could be some enlightened authorities had put in fire breaks which needs to be done as fire feeds on undergrowth, the drier the better.
In your prior life, you were a dog, and you peed on them. They remember things like that.
The homes in many neighborhoods burnt down. People tried to water their homes, and clear brush near the structures but it did not help in many neighborhoods. As I said, Santa Rosa was only one town hit by fire. There are others. The news people sent to California have no idea what is what. Santa Rosa is only 1 1/4 hours north of San Francisco but San Francisco was barely mentioned. I am in between and have not been able to open my windows since last week due to smoke.
