Please do not begin to lash out at other commenters. Zeke is not making political statements, but if commenters get too disruptive, this valuable channel will lose subscribers just when more viewers, subscribers, and members are critically needed to support this exquisite source of valid, fact-based information. I will arrange my budget-allocated membership from other channels to this one asap. Congratulations Zeke!🎉
Agreed, the wildfire information Zeke provides is invaluable, it is another tool we can use to stay safe. Keep politics out of it we need all the help we can get. (: Thanks for all you do Zeke.
Zeke congrats on your transition from your prior work to full time at The Lookout. You've been such an informative resource of insight and wisdom for myself and my family through our personal evacuations during the Caldor and Tamarack fires, along with numerous other evacs of friends from different fires and separate scenarios. Your wealth of knowledge has provided such invaluable insight and interpretation during heated times. We have a couple generation's of wildland and smoke jumping experience and the study and observations of fire sciences in our family and your interpretations have become integral and much appreciated veiwpoints. Your timing when providing parameters and updates is so helpful during times of concern, when the information is otherwise challenging to come by. Zeke your an awesome educator to many, thank you for your time and service as an invaluable resource. Congrats to you and your family☮️ Tara
Thanks to your videos discussing flammable landscaping I finally convinced my husband to remove the juniper around our house. I did not know rosemary was flammable before your video. It is 3 feet from our log cabin and at least I got him to cut it way back. We have worked for years to try and make this place as fire safe as possible, and these were places we missed.
I have three juniper's directly under the eaves of the front of the house that were planted over fifty years ago by my husband's mother and after watching the palisades fire- they gotta go!
@@lyndelgado6138 That was your decision. However, junipers can be thinned out, then when you maintain the landscape, blow out the leaves, then you still have the beauty of the plants with little flammable material. If you don’t continuously prune, dead branches will build up. You can keep your plants if you remain aware that they aren’t flammable.
@@DanielEarth1 The rosemary still exists. The juniper were way too close to the house and under other trees. We were just dropped from fire insurance...again! And we were in the evacuation area for the McKinney fire. We still have PTSD from the days of uncertainty. The juniper had to go! 🙂
@@pamelaj478 Pamela: You need to do what your insurance company tells you in order to live normally. But when I had my landscape business I advocated for beautiful surroundings. With the rosemary, you can prune in order to stimulate growth ( but such plants don’t respond to too much pruning). Rosemary is drought tolerant and if you provide water and encourage vibrant growth, and rid the plant of dry branches, you won’t have problems. I’m sure there are books that support this philosophy that you can point out to the insurance company. Bottom line, you don’t need to have your property devoid of vegetation for fire prevention. Thoughtful management will work just fine.
This is great, Zeke. I'm in Humboldt County. Love to see your reality-based coverage of California fire, water, geography, etc. There is a load of bulls**t and f*ckery out there, everyone. Keep a lookout (see what I did there) for facts and reality.
I will join once I can, but I trust the information here and Zeke makes it easy to digest. I don't have to reach for a Tums or an aspirin after watching one of his videos.
I just filled my 270 gallon water tote (tank) half full in basically 1 day here in Santa Cruz .... Maybe talk about water storage for home fire protection....
So funny you called it the Richmond Bridge. Growing up in the east bay (also thought it was interesting Pinole was the town to get the shoutout), we always called it the San Rafael Bridge. Something you alluded too, but didn't outright say, and that a lot of people don't realize, is that the fuel from all of the refineries is mixed. So no matter where you get your gas, it's all the same, plus some additives for "Techron" or "V-power" or whatever marketing they want to do. Great content.
Grew up in San Anselmo we called the Richmond San Rafael bridge, well my mom did anyway. She always said it looked like it was built out of leftover parts from the GGB and Bay Bridge, she was a funny one, my mom.
Congrats on going full time. The way you are tying current events to geography is fascinating and informative. I would love to see areas of where we may be doing it right, as far as land management and fire prevention. Also, I would love to hear more of your opinions, and others you respect, on ways to improve. Thank you Zeke.
We are looking forward to more rain in the Los Angeles area today, Tuesday Feb. 4. We are still far behind normal so any rain will help. No green up here yet.
thanks for the update. seeing the refinery in Richmond reminds me of my youth summer job with the Santa Fe railroad. I worked as a brakeman and would help to switch out rail tanker cars in those very refineries.
Ive been to many really fun parties in old town Martinez. Old town is neat, the refinery end is scary and grungy to drive thru. Huge complex of lethal looking machinery right in town.
Would you be willing to do one episode for Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. It has ha two large fires in the last 20 years, The last one about 7 years ago gutted the center of the ranch. It would be exciting to see how it is recovering.
What I noticed about farms in Central Valley was much of the orchards and farm land was no longer in existence. Time to start growing again, bring back the farm lands and will do something.
@@robsteal3887 if you’re a farmer whose summer irrigation water just got dumped for no good reason, it might as well be in the ocean. This isn’t political, it’s just geography.
The farm water consumers are very politically active. If there is not enough this summer because these reservoirs are dumping water right now, the farmers are going to be very upset.
I hope everyone has mobilized with water tanks, and is trying to fill whatever ponds or pools ,or whatever they can, to make some use of some of this water being lost.
Congrats on going fulltime with The Lookout. You provide such a wide range of accurate, useful and helpful info. Thanks Zeke.
Thank you for sharing information on the mismanagement of the federal reservoirs. Its important to provide unbiased information to the public.
Please do not begin to lash out at other commenters. Zeke is not making political statements, but if commenters get too disruptive, this valuable channel will lose subscribers just when more viewers, subscribers, and members are critically needed to support this exquisite source of valid, fact-based information.
I will arrange my budget-allocated membership from other channels to this one asap.
Congratulations Zeke!🎉
Agreed, the wildfire information Zeke provides is invaluable, it is another tool we can use to stay safe. Keep politics out of it we need all the help we can get. (: Thanks for all you do Zeke.
Very educational, thanks.
Zeke congrats on your transition from your prior work to full time at The Lookout.
You've been such an informative resource of insight and wisdom for myself and my family through our personal evacuations during the Caldor and Tamarack fires, along with numerous other evacs of friends from different fires and separate scenarios.
Your wealth of knowledge has provided such invaluable insight and interpretation during heated times. We have a couple generation's of wildland and smoke jumping experience and the study and observations of fire sciences in our family and your interpretations have become integral and much appreciated veiwpoints. Your timing when providing parameters and updates is so helpful during times of concern, when the information is otherwise challenging to come by.
Zeke your an awesome educator to many, thank you for your time and service as an invaluable resource.
Congrats to you and your family☮️
Tara
Thanks to your videos discussing flammable landscaping I finally convinced my husband to remove the juniper around our house. I did not know rosemary was flammable before your video. It is 3 feet from our log cabin and at least I got him to cut it way back. We have worked for years to try and make this place as fire safe as possible, and these were places we missed.
As a landscaper I would have thinned out the plants rather than completely remove them.
I have three juniper's directly under the eaves of the front of the house that were planted over fifty years ago by my husband's mother and after watching the palisades fire- they gotta go!
@@lyndelgado6138 That was your decision. However, junipers can be thinned out, then when you maintain the landscape, blow out the leaves, then you still have the beauty of the plants with little flammable material. If you don’t continuously prune, dead branches will build up. You can keep your plants if you remain aware that they aren’t flammable.
@@DanielEarth1 The rosemary still exists. The juniper were way too close to the house and under other trees. We were just dropped from fire insurance...again! And we were in the evacuation area for the McKinney fire. We still have PTSD from the days of uncertainty. The juniper had to go! 🙂
@@pamelaj478 Pamela: You need to do what your insurance company tells you in order to live normally. But when I had my landscape business I advocated for beautiful surroundings. With the rosemary, you can prune in order to stimulate growth ( but such plants don’t respond to too much pruning). Rosemary is drought tolerant and if you provide water and encourage vibrant growth, and rid the plant of dry branches, you won’t have problems. I’m sure there are books that support this philosophy that you can point out to the insurance company. Bottom line, you don’t need to have your property devoid of vegetation for fire prevention. Thoughtful management will work just fine.
I keep "sharing you" - you are so informative!
Your former employers loss is our gain.
Looking forward to more of your fantastic content.
The only thing constant is change. Congrats on the move. I wish you and your family all the best future possible. Thank you for your work, brother.
Congratulations on making this your gig. You've been very helpful in educating this lifelong Californian more about how things really work.
Geography has big maps that cannot lie😄🗺
Facts that I can’t deny!
Well, you can try to make them tell a different tale with a well placed Sharpie marking pen…. lol
Congratulations on being able to do the Lookout full time!
I didnt realize he was dumping Kern water. Lol his supporters will be pissed.
They don’t care as long as he’s dumping on brown people, too.
Congrats! Look forward to more diverse content.
Awesome Zeke! Congrats on the promotion. Perfect timing, I just budgeted so I could join.
This is great, Zeke. I'm in Humboldt County. Love to see your reality-based coverage of California fire, water, geography, etc. There is a load of bulls**t and f*ckery out there, everyone. Keep a lookout (see what I did there) for facts and reality.
Humboldt Co too! Via Plumas Co🙋🏼♀️
Awesome Zeke!
I will join once I can, but I trust the information here and Zeke makes it easy to digest. I don't have to reach for a Tums or an aspirin after watching one of his videos.
Congrats on going full time at the Lookout! Loving the additional videos on California geography!
Your info is SO HELPFUL!!! Thank you so much!
full time. awesome. i remember watching your RUclipss in 2021 if i remember right. and now lookout full time wow.
Nice information on all 3 issues.
Really appreciate your channel! Glad to see you going full time!
I just filled my 270 gallon water tote (tank) half full in basically 1 day here in Santa Cruz .... Maybe talk about water storage for home fire protection....
Open source lookout! Great geographer 👍❤️☀️
So funny you called it the Richmond Bridge. Growing up in the east bay (also thought it was interesting Pinole was the town to get the shoutout), we always called it the San Rafael Bridge.
Something you alluded too, but didn't outright say, and that a lot of people don't realize, is that the fuel from all of the refineries is mixed. So no matter where you get your gas, it's all the same, plus some additives for "Techron" or "V-power" or whatever marketing they want to do.
Great content.
Grew up in San Anselmo we called the Richmond San Rafael bridge, well my mom did anyway. She always said it looked like it was built out of leftover parts from the GGB and Bay Bridge, she was a funny one, my mom.
Wow thank you for the update and geography lesson combined
Congrats on going full time. The way you are tying current events to geography is fascinating and informative. I would love to see areas of where we may be doing it right, as far as land management and fire prevention. Also, I would love to hear more of your opinions, and others you respect, on ways to improve. Thank you Zeke.
Thank you Olympia WA granny.
Very informative, thank you.
Thanks, Zeke.
"Geography doesn't lie" ❤ I love maps and am glad I found your channel!
The pipeline actually goes out to Fallon, NV, to the Naval Air Station...
Congrats to you! Love how interesting these videos are, as a bit of a geography nut myself. Will definitely be a long term viewer
Congratulations on finishing your job young
I never knew if the pipelines. As always, you share excellent information.😊
And so grateful for the rain in Chico!!!
We are looking forward to more rain in the Los Angeles area today, Tuesday Feb. 4. We are still far behind normal so any rain will help. No green up here yet.
sending you buckets full from Ireland, we got too much..☘🍀🌧🌧🌧🌧🌈☔💧
thanks for the update. seeing the refinery in Richmond reminds me of my youth summer job with the Santa Fe railroad. I worked as a brakeman and would help to switch out rail tanker cars in those very refineries.
Retired! Congrats sorry not sure how long I can afford to stay subbed for excellent facts. I am in UK but Idaho is hm.
Congratulations 🎉🍾🎈 🎉😊😊
Congrads Zeke upon your change of rolls..I surely wish you the best 🐦
Congratulations 🎉
Love you Zeke,.
Ive been to many really fun parties in old town Martinez. Old town is neat, the refinery end is scary and grungy to drive thru. Huge complex of lethal looking machinery right in town.
I like this turn of events! Geography as a lens makes so much sense, I might even say I like it better than a strictly fire-focused channel.
Now that the news cycle has moved on, and the photo opp is forgotten, is water still being dumped out of those resevoirs?
Thanks!
Would you be willing to do one episode for Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. It has ha two large fires in the last 20 years, The last one about 7 years ago gutted the center of the ranch. It would be exciting to see how it is recovering.
congrats!
me, too.
What I noticed about farms in Central Valley was much of the orchards and farm land was no longer in existence. Time to start growing again, bring back the farm lands and will do something.
Nice content!
Around the 9 min mark, why is there a large area of farm land blurred out on the map?
Is this Oil Refinery Fire right by the San Joaquin River wetlands marsh area ??
The fire was in Martinez, which is between the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta and the San Francisco Bay.
@ ok thanks Zeke, I’m from Fresno County.
Not Fernley Fallon 35 miles past Fernley
Finally youTube has done something really cool... *The Lookout" & Geo Landmarks.
Altruism at its Scientists finest.
Dump t....p
Yes please 👍
Never underestimate DJT’s ability to daily prove his idiocy.
@@Patrick_Ross Like yourself..
California needs a new refinery or two.
One party rule. How's that working Cali?
One party rule. How's that working, America?
Beats dumping the water into the pacific.
Yeah....ask Jake..
The water dumped to meet Trump's demand is entirely wasted.
@@robsteal3887 if you’re a farmer whose summer irrigation water just got dumped for no good reason, it might as well be in the ocean. This isn’t political, it’s just geography.
Thanks for making things political. Sub lost..
LOL you didn't know that water was political in California? If you think Trump's actions made any sense then you can't think rationally.
He was merely stating facts.
Facts tend to trigger MAGAs.
Nothing political about the truth.
The farm water consumers are very politically active. If there is not enough this summer because these reservoirs are dumping water right now, the farmers are going to be very upset.
I hope everyone has mobilized with water tanks, and is trying to fill whatever ponds or pools ,or whatever they can, to make some use of some of this water being lost.