{"id":26901,"date":"2017-10-16T20:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26901"},"modified":"2017-10-16T20:08:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:08:36","slug":"15-videos-show-what-its-really-like-trying-to-survive-the-california-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26901","title":{"rendered":"15 Videos Show What It\u2019s Really Like Trying to Survive the California Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 Videos Show What It\u2019s Really Like Trying to Survive the California Wildfires<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

The Northern California wildfires are fast-moving, unpredictable, and for some, unsurvivable. The videos below will show you what it\u2019s really like, trying to survive an ever-changing inferno\u2026and why you shouldn\u2019t wait for the official evacuation order.<\/p>\n

A lot of folks have been critical, saying\u00a0blithely, \u201cThey knew there was a fire. They should have evacuated.\u201d It\u2019s important to understand that it doesn\u2019t always work like that with wildfires. Armchair quarterbacking is easy. Fleeing when the car your driving literally catches on fire<\/em> and the smoke is blinding you is not.<\/p>\n

First of all, fires move rapidly. You can be in no danger whatsoever and just see a fire on the distant horizon, and then minutes later, it\u2019s at your back door. Secondly, they change courses. Many times, the fire gets ahold of some new fuel \u2013 like a home, tall grass, or trees, and the course veers in that direction. Finally, high winds have propelled these fires rapidly and fanned them to new heights. Every fall, California has something called the \u201cDiablo Winds.\u201d These are seasonal gusts that can reach as high as 80 mph and cause extremely high fire danger. When coupled with existing fires, it\u2019s nothing less than the perfect storm.<\/p>\n

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October is often the worst month of the year for wildfires in California. Not only is it the time when the Diablo winds (or Santa Ana winds in Southern California) kick up, but it\u2019s also the driest month. California has a long dry season. It isn\u2019t unusual to go without a single drop of rain from May through the end of October. Because of this, all the lush grass that grows during the spring rainy season is dried, crisp, and tragically perfect fuel.<\/p>\n

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15 Videos Show What It\u2019s Really Like Trying to Survive the California Wildfires The Northern California wildfires are fast-moving, unpredictable, and for some, unsurvivable. The videos below will show you what it\u2019s really like, trying to survive an ever-changing inferno\u2026and why you shouldn\u2019t wait for the official evacuation order. A lot of folks have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[101,5837,4849],"class_list":["post-26901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-california","tag-organic-prepper","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26902,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions\/26902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}