California is hosting its annual
wildfire festival again this summer and there are 20 fires to choose from. This year they are scattered from the Oregon
border to the Mexican border. These
annual fires are brought to you by a myriad of sponsors including summer
temperatures and dry heat and are caused by high winds knocking down power
lines, lightening and arson. An
estimated 37,000 Californians are attending so far this year by evacuating
their homes.
California has dry,
windy, and often hot weather conditions from late spring through autumn
that can produce moderate to devastating wildfires.
... United States taxpayers pay about US$3 billion a year to
fight wildfires, and big fires can lead to billions of
dollars in property losses.
The California Mud Slide Festivals are in the spring when
they get snowmelt from the mountains. This year 30,000 Californians attended
and were evacuated from their homes.
The California Earthquake Festivals are harder to catch,
because they occur randomly, but this year there were 7 in various parts of
California that would qualify as a Festival at 3.0 to 3.5 on the Richter scale
and they were all in July. There were also hundreds of smaller Parties called
tremors that were recorded at under 3.0.
I bet most of these occur at or near the San Andreas Fault,
so if you want to go to one of these you should try going there next July and
then go north to catch the wildfire festival.
Insurance companies like to collect premiums for fire and mud
slide and earthquake coverage, but they don’t like to pay claims and homeowners
are wise to hire a lawyer who hates insurance companies to review these
policies before they write any checks.
Nobody ever reports what happens to these festival attendees,
but Texas is claiming they are all moving to Dallas and Austin and Arizona is
claiming they are all moving to Phoenix.
The organizer of these festivals is the US Department of
Interior who owns the land these festivals are celebrated in.
The forests on the East Coast do not have these festivals,
because most of the forest land is privately owned and they clean out the brush
and live on the property, so they can extinguish any fires that occur.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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