“BURNED,” a yearlong investigation from the California Newsroom, reveals how the U.S. Forest Service is struggling to complete the work it knows it must do to keep Californians safe from wildfires. For decades, the agency has developed projects to thin and manage overgrown forests in an effort to reduce wildfire intensity. But those plans routinely stall out, and sometimes are abandoned completely.
of snow. yeah, that s the weather whiplash that we highlight on a daily basis. i have covered many of stlthese events through the course of 2021. in fact, the first event i m going to discuss, hurricane ida. i was on the coastline of louisiana when this storm struck as that powerful category 4. actually, re-sclandscaping this powerful coastline as this powerful storm moved inland. it wasn t just the damage that it brought to the gulf coast states, it impacted over 22 states across the eastern u.s. that reported 500 flood reports, 21 confirmed tornados and severe wind reports, as well. we can t forget about what happened in new york city. the flash flooding that took place there, with the remnants of ida. and almost paradoxically, we had on the west coast of the u.s., the entire portion of northern and central california, basically burning. we had the kelder fire, one of many fires visible from satellite imagery, just billowing smoke into the upper levels of the atmosphere, threatenin