As many of you know last summer the largest wildfire in the history of the Sierra Nevada mountains ripped through my area. It almost burnt my town down and basically made life hell for a month.
This hurt us, locally, in a number of ways. First off it closed all the roads into Yosemite through our area. We have little in the way of an economy anyways (27% unemployment) but tourism related to Yosemite was hugely important to what was left.
It also closed off the forest.
Now when the fire came under control it left a new problem: 400 square miles of burnt forest land. Land now left with no grass, brush or even tree roots to hold it together. This was further exacerbated by the numerous bulldozer lines hastily dug out to try and stop the fire. About three weeks ago I went out into the burned area and found myself unable to even walk through it as I sunk knee deep into ash and dust.
You can imagine what all this would do to the local rivers when the rains come in November as they always do (we get no rain out here from April to November this is part of why fires get so intense in late summer). So the forest service had hundreds of workers out in the forest trying to put up erosion control measures to stop this coming catastrophe.
Then the government shutdown. And all that stopped.
And Yosemite closed just as tourist were starting to come through again.
So we all sat around watching helplessly as local stores that had barely kept open through the initial fire disaster now had to close for good. And nervously wait watching the skies hoping the rains don't come early.
With the good news of last night the forest service has resumed erosion control mitigation. Yosemite is reopened. Not soon enough to prevent numerous business closures but it is open.
Now we don't know if the two week stoppage will mean that erosion control will now not have enough time.....but we can but hope the rains come a little late.
In closing: thank you TeaTard whackjobs. I hope trying to keep people away from healthcare was worth it you scumsuckers.
This hurt us, locally, in a number of ways. First off it closed all the roads into Yosemite through our area. We have little in the way of an economy anyways (27% unemployment) but tourism related to Yosemite was hugely important to what was left.
It also closed off the forest.
Now when the fire came under control it left a new problem: 400 square miles of burnt forest land. Land now left with no grass, brush or even tree roots to hold it together. This was further exacerbated by the numerous bulldozer lines hastily dug out to try and stop the fire. About three weeks ago I went out into the burned area and found myself unable to even walk through it as I sunk knee deep into ash and dust.
You can imagine what all this would do to the local rivers when the rains come in November as they always do (we get no rain out here from April to November this is part of why fires get so intense in late summer). So the forest service had hundreds of workers out in the forest trying to put up erosion control measures to stop this coming catastrophe.
Then the government shutdown. And all that stopped.
And Yosemite closed just as tourist were starting to come through again.
So we all sat around watching helplessly as local stores that had barely kept open through the initial fire disaster now had to close for good. And nervously wait watching the skies hoping the rains don't come early.
With the good news of last night the forest service has resumed erosion control mitigation. Yosemite is reopened. Not soon enough to prevent numerous business closures but it is open.
Now we don't know if the two week stoppage will mean that erosion control will now not have enough time.....but we can but hope the rains come a little late.
In closing: thank you TeaTard whackjobs. I hope trying to keep people away from healthcare was worth it you scumsuckers.
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