today marks the 150th anniversary of Peshtigo: America's Deadliest Fire

[yaesu]

I've been to Peshtigo, visited the museum, the mass grave where hundreds of fire victims are buried. Read several books on the subject. There were piles of dried tree trimmings stacked everywhere, small fires constantly burning so the perfect storm rolled through this dry area creating the calamity.

[mopinko]

1. i believe the theory of a meteor breaking up. this was at the same time as the chicago fire.

and there were quite a few forest fires in mich that went unnoticed at the time.

since i live in chi, this is a hot topic on the local sites today.
that theory came out at least 10, more years ago, but it seems to have sunk into the mists.

i've been to that museum, too. dont tell them you're from chi, whatever you do.

[mopinko]

2. ok i commented before watching. i have this to say about the drought.

this was a single year's drought. if you compare the fires that day to the fires of the last couple years, this was clearly a different sort of beast.
if drought could cause this, we would have seen a recurrence of such fire in the last couple years.
nothing has happened that comes close.
the comet theory explains it all.

[yaesu]

3. The practice of deforestation caused this more than the drought. The way capitalistic greed took

without a care about the environment. I remember reading an account of a clergyman passing through the area days before, he mention the low hanging smoke that blanketed the area like a fog caused by small fires burning everywhere.

[mopinko]

4. you just cant look at peshitgo alone.

he does mention the theory, but dismisses it.
but like chicago, it ripped through the towns, too.
the point is that these fires were like nothing that we know of before or since. they just werent ordinary fires.

i've seen a lumber yard go up, and i understand how people can think this is in the realm of normal. but one of the things that was pointed out to us at the museum was that there were reports of all people unable to breathe in a way that just doesnt happen in a fire zone. it wasnt rly reported in chicago. but that's the kind of thing that happens from explosions. bombs. there just is not enough oxygen left to breathe.
the guys who came up w the theory even showed the trajectory of the fragments.
it was very convincing.

[pansypoo53219]

5. wait til the oxwgen levels are 0 below sea level + it climbs. BUTBUTBUT PROFITS!!!!

[mopinko]

6. nothing of this world could create this.

unless an asteroid crashes into the planet, or another comet breaks up, this will not happen again.
even a meteor that exploded over russia a few years ago caused nothing like this.

[pansypoo53219]

7. we affected the jet stream. pray for krakartoa 3.