EISPIRATEN

The probability of mud and debris flows from canyons burned in the Station Fire is high:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1227/

(And in other breaking news, the sky is blue and 2+2 = 4.)

An interesting read related to this is Control of Nature by John McPhee.
Teh san Gab's are one part of the book - others being the Mighty Miss and and Icelandic lava flow.
I read it some years ago and it was very interesting to me.

I might even have a copy, gotta check the bookshelves.

Rumpled wrote:An interesting read related to this is Control of Nature by John McPhee.

Every copy in the LAPL is in transit or checked out!

here's part of it: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1988/0 ... _000350203

stealth searching my friends!

http://books.google.com/books?id=jjdmih ... ns&f=false

damn i read the first two pages, this is really good stuff