More people died in the Camp Fire than what died in the San Francisco fire after the 1906 earthquake. But who's to blame for the deaths this year? I believe it's the fault of the state government and environmentalists.
When Jerry Brown was first governor years ago, he could have ordered the excavation of more reservoirs to make more water available during droughts and for the fighting of forest fires. But he listened to environmentalists and other interest groups that didn't want the extra water. They've been paying for that mistake for years.
Forest management was not done. The droughts killed million of trees and dried brush, which produced an overabundance of fuel. I read a few years ago that someone was fined for clearing brush around his house because he didn't want a forest fire to destroy his house. He was punished for doing the right thing. If tree huggers have prevented the clearing of dead trees and other trees that provided fuel for the fires and people died because of them, maybe they should be fined for the disregard of human life and for the billions of dollars property owners and the state has lost because of them.
When I was a child, I don't remember so much destruction in California from forest fires. That might be because lumber companies were allowed to cut down enough trees to prevent major fires from having fuel. In the future, one way to prevent so much destruction would be the excavation of the interstate underground reservoir system. It would be hollowed out by plasma moles and hold more water than the Great Lakes. Flood water could go into the system and be pumped through tunnels to areas experiencing droughts. It may cost over $1 trillion and take over a decade to complete. But if the system can prevent major floods and forest fires, it will be worth excavating. There could be pipes up to the surface in forests to make fighting fires easier.
If they need more rain, swarms of my predator drone-sized bees could dive into the ocean and use their plasma beams to produce steam that would form clouds. Swarms of my drone-sized wasps would condense the steam in the clouds to cause rain or snow, depending on the time of year. The precipitation could be directed where it is needed. The bees and wasps might cost over $250,000 each and there might be 100 in a swarm. My reservoir and bees and wasps might save more money than they cost and save countless lives and structures. Proper forest management would be cheaper though.
