DEW, Directed Energy Weapons, are the latest conspiracy rave and fave, but I’m not buying that anyone, any government agency, is using them to burn down towns. Yes, the title is a pun.
I saw a blurt on a news aggregator yesterday that claimed Lahaina, in Oahu, Paradise, in California, the fire in San Diego and a bunch of others were all deliberately caused by some sinister government agency using Directed Energy Weapons.
Every one of these fires started in a dry area where fuel was plentiful. I know people who lived in Paradise when that one started and I’m pretty familiar with the conditions that caused it. I’ve been there. It was a firetrap. So was where the San Diego fire started and the others.
In Lahaina, the telephone poles were rotted and the poles leaned, and rocked back and forth when the wind blew. Some other misinformed person said the electricity had been turned off 6 hours before the fire started, without any verification, so why did residents say they saw sparks when the poles fell?
I lived in the deep woods for 23 years and was always conscious that if a fire got going in the summer when it was hot, it could kill everyone. Then add a strong wind and it’s all over, baby. Everything in the path of that wind will burn and the fire just keeps getting hotter until it runs out of fuel. Cars will partially melt, enough to badly warp the metal.
When we move into the mountains and the forests to build communities “surrounded by Nature”, we’re setting ourselves up for disaster. When we live in cities of close packed wood houses it’s the same thing. If enough of them catch fire in a strong wind, everything downwind will burn. Once a fire is hot enough and moving fast enough, nothing will stop it until it runs out of fuel.
Many of us are increasingly seeing our government as being evil and insidious, and with good reason, because it is and is becoming more so. But it’s not burning down small communities, not yet anyway. Many are pointing to the local government fencing off Lahaina, blocking drones from flying over and so forth as evidence it was deliberately set. Government does this to keep out looters. Besides, they don’t want it known how many really died. The lawsuits are coming next, don’t forget. They did the same thing in Paradise, and lied about the number of fatalities. Right now, after 3 weeks, 385 people are still missing from Lahaina and should be presumed dead. Add that to the 115 claimed and you have an even 500 dead.
The longer they can take to prevent the real death total from coming out, the longer they can keep the media away from the scene, and let the news story turn cold. Because ultimately, the real blame for these disasters falls not on the people who live there but on those who are responsible for keeping them safe.