Flashlight kit has enough inventory now, and inventory of Black, Gold, Silver light only is on the way to FBA warehouse. It seems UPS is slowed down. Any bad weather in LA?
“The 2018 wildfire season is the most destructive wildfire season on record in California, with a total of 7,579 fires burning an area of 1,667,855 acres……”
Because some damnfools believe in “conservation” to the point where they do anything’n’everything to prevent small brushfires.
That ends up with a decades-long collection of dead underbrush, sticks, leaves, bushes, etc. (also called “tinder”) which when it does finally catch fire, takes half the state with it.
Worse, property owners there are threatened with arrest and jail if they build their own firebreaks, clear dry ditches (federally classified as “waterways” even if they haven’t seen a drop of water flowing through them in decades) of any burnables, bulldoze away dead wood, and so on, and so on, and so on.
Some people didn’t care, said “Go’head, arrest me”, and did just that, cleared away burnables, built firebreaks, etc., and their homes were among the only ones that were spared.
Wildfires happen every year in CA, and have been before man ever showed up. With more people moving into fire areas, you are hearing about them more often. Also, forest management is hotly debated subject, and has been for decades.
According to this, there were huge fires in the 1950’s in the Santa Barbara basin. I don’t know when they started keeping actual records of the size of fires. Obviously today, we have much better technology to record them. I don’t think they had much of a clue how big or small fires were 60 years ago. No satellite imaging, no communications, sparse population, no way to extinguish them, etc…