Message #132774

[guest49]

From the Los Angeles Times....

Heat wave: 13 dead, 3 million lose power in Mid-Atlantic storms

You know, its strange, but there were wildfires that spanned whole American counties in the 1800's.  Zane Grey wrote stories about them.
I guess they're inconvenient memories now.....  As is the fact that the population until recently, was a fraction of what it is now and people have expanded into danger areas - and also expanded their 'heat-sink' cities.