Meg, I agree with you completely. We have no business investing billions of dollars to control weather, cause it ain't gonna happen. Our enviornment is controlled by weather and has been for millions of years. Look what happened to the Okeechobee swamp in Florida when our wonderful governement decided to change its flow direction. Now the swamp is almost dried up, killing a lot of wildlife and jeopardizing the human element also. Hell, we can't even build levees to protect property, as is well known by habitants of New Orleans.

I am sure that the feds will now spend billions of dollars on engineering and reports in Ca. to determine how to prevent these type fires, (DUH). I feel that this is done mostly to line the pockets of their rich political contributors.

While I am sure man has the ability to screw things up and will yet I do think as man continues to gain new understanding of creation his dominion over it will continue to increase. Also if we loose half of the area to the lower 48 due to the lack of drinking and irrigation water we may wind up steering hurricanes inland to survive.