Astonishingly devastating fires are burning mostly unchecked in Los Angeles, destroying whole neighborhoods, and see if you can spot the problem in this Yahoo News update I found in my inbox this morning:
I sure as hell hope that no 5'3", 200 lb blue-haired diversity hire needs to carry anyone over their shoulder down a flaming staircase in LA County...its not gonna end well for one of them...
Chris, as a life-long Southern California resident, I am glad I live in a relatively well managed city on the east end of LA County, and I don’t have to deal with the sheer incompetence of the city of LA. All we need is Karen Bass fiddling while the Palisades burns. Oh, wait, she is.
No one has suggested that you give up anything but it’s obvious that the thought is in your minds. Actually, we’d prefer that you stay just where you are and continue to stew, in this case boil, in your own dumpster juices.
Last I checked, libtards have had full control of the state for decades. Who is working their asses off exactly and what is getting turned around? Maybe try a conservatard.
Oh, please tell me it isn’t so 😲! Private helicopters! The horror of it all! I was in the middle of that disaster in Western North Carolina and if it weren’t for those with their own helicopters there would have been any air rescue or supply of any kind in the first week! Fucking FEMA and some county stooges threatened them with arrest if they kept it up but these guys set up their own air traffic control and told the FEMA frauds and the FAA to go fuck themselves! Most of the days-after road clearing was done by locals with their own heavy equipment. You LA types voted for this creature and the others like her so I must admit I have to hunt for some sympathy in my give-a-fuck department but I do have a tiny bit left; no one should have to loose their home but, at least, there’s a chance to run from a fire but not so much from blitzkrieg mud slides. They are still smelling out the corpses.
Nope, my brain is quite sharp and observant. I was there cleaning up my own damages, talking and listening to the locals and the one surviving radio station, seeing the destruction in my area with my own eyes. As for that small ineffectual portion of you trying to turn the People’s Republic of California back into the Golden State may you eventually be successful but I’m not holding my breath. Been doing too long already. Also, do not assume that my contempt for your masters extends to you. It does not. Note: Of the few California plates I have seen in the Western North Carolina region by far the majority of them have been attacked to Merks, Beemers and the occasional Tesla Dumpster Fire truck one of which was actually on the road. What does that say about many if not most of the ones who are leaving the PRC (not the China one)?
Ah, sorry, missed the screenshots. She's talking about the county/city choice. The private helicopters aren't "random," like some dude who happens to have a helicopter, they're a well-integrated part of the wildfire system. They fight fires all the time. I suspect you know this.
In todays episode of “reading comprehension is hard” i’d like to call your attention to the words, in English, 2nd screenshot, “ready to go” and “why havent they been called?” You will observe first that they are ready to go, and therefore not already on their way; second, that they have not been called, and are still ready, therefore waiting to be called. So no, they are not random, and they are far too intelligent to show up uncalled. Speaking of intelligence:
Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a cupcake recipe.
Last I checked, libtards have had full control of the state for decades. Who is working their asses off exactly and what is getting turned around? Maybe try a conservatard.
"Sorry your house burned down, but the mop up crew that arrived to put out the remnants 2 hours later consisted of 3 trannies including 2 BIPOC, a half Native American / half Korean gay man, 3 black women, and a non-binary Latinx. Diversity before competence: LAFD has our priorities straight. I mean 'queer'! We have our priorities queer!." (Can't believe I said the S-word.)
When you sit and watch all your belongings burn, the most important thing is seeing somebody who looks like you struggling to lift the firehose that could save your house..........
That's a really interesting point, Mitch, and one I'm only recently coming to terms with. European aristocracy created a hereditary caste of elites. While they may not be brilliant, both their Christian training and the noblesse-oblige system pushed them to rule well. Imperfectly certainly, and there were lots of corrupt nobles, but much of the time, European nobility did reasonably well by their populations. America didn't have such a rigid caste system, but we did have regional elites (think, the factory owner who built the local library) who viewed themselves as "in the same foxhole" as their fellow local citizens. He may have been wealthier, but he didn't think of himself as "better".
However, when we adopted a national meritocracy, we did two things: 1) took all the smartest people (measured by a very narrow metric) and moved them to big cities where they had little kinship with their fellow urbanites; 2) told them they were the smartest and the best had earned the right to rule (instead of having it gifted to them by their families). This combination worked pretty well while our universities were still producing competent people, but has largely collapsed today. Our elite is less competent than your average electrician or roofer, but has completely unwarranted levels of self confidence in themselves and their moral superiority.
In many ways, we look like the late Qing Mandarins of China. Emperor Daoguang was firmly convinced of his own nation's superiority and right to rule the world. And then 1 British gunboat blew his entire navy out of the Yangtze river in the 1850's. I can't help but wonder if the roles may be reversed this time.
But does she know how to "put the wet stuff on the red stuff"? (Not sure I got Mr. Bray's quote from a long ago post exactly correct but its close enough!
I agree. In 2020, I was more than a mile away from the fire in the Santa Cruz mountains when I went to bed. Woke at 1:00 am to evacuation as the fire barreled toward my home. The wind switches and everything changes. Like you, the calvary didn't arrive. Those that did let the houses burn, stating they didn't have enough water and manpower to save the neighborhoods. Lost everything. Still a bit surreal.
During those CZU fires, one remote community that had a trained volunteer firefighting contingent, and decided to fight because FU CalFire, saved large sections of their town.
In anarchotyranny, the cavalry is you. Sometimes, that's enough. Sometimes, it isn't.
Prediction: Given the people who just got burned out while the mayor was in Ghana post budget cuts, the fire chief is DEI, and the water is running out (notice who is calling in to local news)... the fire afterward is likely to be every bit as intense as the fire during.
I think some neighborhoods are. The population density where I live is a bit low for that. But there is a free chipping program twice a year that we enthusiastically feed. And those have become more popular since CZU in 2020. Consciousness re forest management is growing.
We’ve transformed our place from an overgrown, scotch broom infested, no site line, dead undergrowth and poison oak choked space to a space with gorgeous site lines, shaded fuel breaks, and scotch broom free. It will never be poison oak free but we beat it back away from used spaces as best we can. Nice views to the coast now as well. We continue to shape and steward the space each year. One of these years we’ll get around to house upgrades. First things first.
It’s a lot of work but I have mad chainsaw skills after 12 years. And to think I used to be terrified of them. We are also refining our collection of tools and equipment to work smarter. Learn as you go.
Yes. It was that community that inspired us to study up and develop our own plan of action. Plus, we have an 8,000 gallon water tank fed by an onsite well (soon to be 15k - we are upgrading to county code. No failed fire hydrants for us. 😉
I'm so deeply sorry to hear about your loss. I live in the SC Mtns and we had to evacuate for 16 long days when we didn't know if our house was still standing - it was - we were lucky. The prevailing winds blew it right past us but we had an up close view - witnessed someone's propane tank go up across a valley. Still have a bit of PTSD from it. We've equipmented up currently - fire hose, pumps, screens on freeze blocks, roof sprinklers, the works. Plus massive fire mitigation - which were already doing but we expedited some things. We will stay and fight if it happens again. Very much hoping it will not.
Indeed, stay safe. The probability that the celebrities losing their homes reflect on how their support for leftist policies and politicians led to this outcome and change their views is about as low as the odds of winning the Powerball.
When I prepared to move to the Bay Area from Texas, my old neighbors told me I was nuts (earthquakes), and I responded “But they’re over in seconds vs. hours for a hurricane.” We returned 6 yrs later to Texas to 2 hurricanes and innumerable tropical storms. Then in 2016, we retired to the Smoky Mountains, and in 9 yrs have been subjected to more hurricane remnants that we ever experienced in Texas. (The Appalachians guide weather systems from the southwest to the northeast over Tenn, or from Florida north over either Tenn or North Carolina (as with Helene).
Speaking of Helene, I note that the CA fires were barely underway when Biden issued a huge $$$ grant. IIRC, North Carolina has yet to see FEMA 3.5 months later. May he burn in Hell…
I noticed that, too. Hopefully, good will come with the funds, good as in water, more firefighters, whatever it takes to bring these fires under control. I cannot bear the suffering.
If the incoming admin cannot stop all or a large part of the grant money, then it will be wasted. My hope is that Trump (& Congress where needed) will greatly retard the flow of unrestricted Federal funds flowing to spendthrift states like CA. Force tangible, real world objectives on them. CA has wasted untold billions on fighting (and recovering from) fires caused by refusal to clean up forest floors. If CA wants to continue that practice, then let them pay for it.
All that and the alligators is why I remind the husband we'll be staying here.
He gets a little wistful, South-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line look in his eyes when we're in the midst of snow and brutal cold, as we are now. The snow and cold will end around April with little to no residual damage, summer and fall will be spectacular. :)
Is there, like, a place you call for alligator removal? Is it a full-time job? Does one need certification or do you just hang out a shingle and hope for the best? Is OSHA involved?
Sounds like you bypass Spring? (In Houston, we had 2 seasons: Cold & Wet and Unbeatably Hot & Wet. In lucky years, we had 2 weeks of Spring and 2 weeks of Fall, but never in the same year.)
Vermont has six official seasons, spring being the shortest and most disappointing. We tend to go from uncomfortably cool in April and early May to summer heat by June. On our mountain we've had measurable snowfall after Mother's Day a few times. It's not common, but also not shockingly rare.
As for seasons, we've got the usual four, but in addition there's "mud season", those weeks after the snow melts and everything, everywhere is muck. It is of variable length, depending on the depth of the snow pack and how long it takes to melt.
After the last of the spectacular fall leaves finally drop from the trees in late October, but there's been no snow cover yet, we have what's called "stick season", because that's pretty much what the trees look like. It, too, is of variable length.
Thanks for reporting. I hope all goes well for you.
My one big fat comment: Not such a hot idea to have imposed those jab mandates, huh? How many experienced firefighters retired early or got fired as a result? And why isn't anyone in the MSM asking this basic question?
I was wondering how you were doing. Glad you're a mile away. Terrible about all the homes and businesses being destroyed. I'm surprised there aren't more fatalities. That's a good thing and I hope the count stays low. On the upside, you do have a lesbian fire chief and racialist black mayor. And the governor flowed trillions of gallons of perfectly good fresh water out into the Pacific instead of building reservoirs and saving for fire fighting, to prevent global climate change, I think.
I do have sympathy for my friends and people like James Woods and you who aren't part of the problem: I've been through both a fire where we lost almost everything and flood that took huge amounts away. Looking at the videos, though, I'm reminded of Joseph De Maistre's observation about the French Revolution and the catastrophe that ended up being: "People in democracies get the governments they deserve".
Say the first line to yourself to the mirror & the last three sentences were relevant because they point to the people in charge being incompetent. Stop with the stupid
I blocked him. Permanently. He posted dozens of times, calling me the scum of the earth and a bunch of other things over and over and over. I asked him to limit himself to calling me the scum of the earth ten to twelve times per comment thread, for the sake of being less tedious, and he couldn't bring himself to stop. Anyone can call me anything they want to call me, but I get bored the fiftieth time.
A huge portion of the LA basin water supply comes from Northern CA through a series of dams, reservoirs, and a gigantic pipeline/aqueduct system built in the '30's-'40's. It was an amazing feat of engineering at the time. They haven't added 1 acre feet of water supply since the early '70's.
There is a report on X that most of California's water is owned by the Resnick couple who seized control of California's water supply in 1994. The Resnicks own a huge expanse of farmland in central California. Here's the link: https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1877053423075377518
In fairness to the Resnicks, they run HUGE farms in the Central Valley. It’s not like they’re hoarding water. (Growing food used to be considered a good thing.) (As a former resident of the East Bay, I can tell you that the only way to assure fair & appropriate allocation of water in CA is using a group of angels to do the allocating.)
The only villain in this story is the environmental movement which has adamantly opposed 100% of surface water runoff collection efforts since the 1970s. I don’t mean it’s opposed “excessive” collection; I mean it’s opposed ANY runoff collection.
3 sources: Rainfall, spring snowmelt from the Sierras, and diversion of most of the flow of the Colorado River at Parker Dam at Lake Havasu on the Calif/Ariz border. Since the early 1980’s, LA’s water draw on the Colorado has been limited by the need to keep the water level at Hoover Dam (upstream on the Colorado) high enough to power the electric generators which supply LA and Las Vegas.
California is grossly overpopulated for its natural resources, especially water. If it had not been for the Depression era Central Valley Project, Calif would be unable to feed or water itself. In the late 1930s, Calif’s population was ≈5.1M. In the ensuing 85 yrs, very little water COLLECTION infrastructure has been built to accommodate the 700% population growth. Lots & lots of infrastructure has been built to move water from the north to LA, but almost nothing to ADD to the water available.
Add 2 000 000 through migration and migrants breeding. 90% settling in urban areas.
Then act surprised when the power grid, sewage systems and water supplies get over-taxed by over-pressure, compounded by neglect thanks to thirty years of Friedman-style neoliberal policies.
Now, in some cities, the grid is so over-extended they have to turn down companies wanting to establish factories or expand existing businesses, causing both domestic and international companies to look outside Sweden.
Truly, the most important lesson of Sokrates is now forgotten: to understand and know what you don't understand or know.
It's not the problems that are the problem, it's how you think about them, take out the ego..... so, if your house and pets burn down, it's your ego...
The fire insurance cancellations are happening all over California.
California's insurance regulators are trying to hold down the cost and "fight for consumers!" by restricting price increases. Result: insurers are reducing their risk by not renewing coverage, thus lowering the number of California properties in their pools. They're cancelling policies in freaking city neighborhoods near me, based on computer models that are best described as early-version blunt instruments. The alternative is a state government "F.A.I.R." plan that offers bare-bones insurance with uncertain financial backing for very high prices. Our entire neighborhood has been forced to go that route. You can "go naked" without fire insurance - but then how do you get or keep a mortgage?
Nor is this confined to California. Florida is doing similar things around home insurance, and Texas likewise has problems in this area. The whole industry is having a quiet crisis around risk and reserves, and the B2B reinsurance market is choking alongside.
Gavin (Bates) could personally drown a devout leftist’s child in a bucket of his hair gel, and the leftist would only mutter “why would Donald Trump do this!?”
Just as bad, Biden is in LA now, with Gov. Gruesome, speaking unintelligibly 20 feet from a podium and microphone. Plus, air traffic controls related to his presence may be one of the reasons tanker planes can't fly.
But how fitting that Biden and Gavin should be there posturing while the nicer parts next to Hollywood burn to the ground. Talk about presiding over the Apocalypse.
Not only do the Leftists not realize the cause and effect of their own actions, even when it hits them, the don't realize they are the most protected on the lifestyle of DNC imposed decay. MAGA (insert obligatory derisive sneer here) has been dealing with this for years, at a much a worse rate. "Absolute hell" was the day that Marthas Vinyard residents had to endure illegal migrants, (sans any crime etc.) is an ideal example.
I expect the LBGTQ Fire Chief/ LA Mayor/ Media to blame (semi conservative) Orange county residents for taking baths as the reason for the (100%) drop in water pressure...
Oh man, we eventually left our car and hiked down the backside of the mountain (took 14 hours). My father in law finally found us off some backwoods state hwy 20 hours later...so almost 30 hours terrified.
Diversity training at the Los Angeles County Fire Department is very important:
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1877047819820753176
I sure as hell hope that no 5'3", 200 lb blue-haired diversity hire needs to carry anyone over their shoulder down a flaming staircase in LA County...its not gonna end well for one of them...
Many reports of 911 centers simply not answering calls:
https://x.com/kylezink/status/1876870818153828459
Chris, as a life-long Southern California resident, I am glad I live in a relatively well managed city on the east end of LA County, and I don’t have to deal with the sheer incompetence of the city of LA. All we need is Karen Bass fiddling while the Palisades burns. Oh, wait, she is.
Her name is Karen...perfect.
bsn
Indeed. Her full name, Karen Ruth Bass, anagrams to:
- ask earth burns
- brut khan arse
- Her Satan’s Burk
Even better perhaps? :)
easier to watch LA burn if you were in ghana
if i was her i'd want to stay there after the fire too
Aww, you beat me to this one! 😂🤣
she doesn't know how to fiddle, so she flew off to Africa.
If you're on I-still-call-it-Twitter, follow Jennifer van Laar, who has great sources in local government:
https://x.com/jenvanlaar/status/1876988413985051050
No water in hydrants. No one answering 911. Sounds like Hawaii…😥
No one has suggested that you give up anything but it’s obvious that the thought is in your minds. Actually, we’d prefer that you stay just where you are and continue to stew, in this case boil, in your own dumpster juices.
Last I checked, libtards have had full control of the state for decades. Who is working their asses off exactly and what is getting turned around? Maybe try a conservatard.
Where on earth are you getting a reference to "random private helicopters" out of this post?
Oh, please tell me it isn’t so 😲! Private helicopters! The horror of it all! I was in the middle of that disaster in Western North Carolina and if it weren’t for those with their own helicopters there would have been any air rescue or supply of any kind in the first week! Fucking FEMA and some county stooges threatened them with arrest if they kept it up but these guys set up their own air traffic control and told the FEMA frauds and the FAA to go fuck themselves! Most of the days-after road clearing was done by locals with their own heavy equipment. You LA types voted for this creature and the others like her so I must admit I have to hunt for some sympathy in my give-a-fuck department but I do have a tiny bit left; no one should have to loose their home but, at least, there’s a chance to run from a fire but not so much from blitzkrieg mud slides. They are still smelling out the corpses.
Nope, my brain is quite sharp and observant. I was there cleaning up my own damages, talking and listening to the locals and the one surviving radio station, seeing the destruction in my area with my own eyes. As for that small ineffectual portion of you trying to turn the People’s Republic of California back into the Golden State may you eventually be successful but I’m not holding my breath. Been doing too long already. Also, do not assume that my contempt for your masters extends to you. It does not. Note: Of the few California plates I have seen in the Western North Carolina region by far the majority of them have been attacked to Merks, Beemers and the occasional Tesla Dumpster Fire truck one of which was actually on the road. What does that say about many if not most of the ones who are leaving the PRC (not the China one)?
Ah, sorry, missed the screenshots. She's talking about the county/city choice. The private helicopters aren't "random," like some dude who happens to have a helicopter, they're a well-integrated part of the wildfire system. They fight fires all the time. I suspect you know this.
https://sillerhelicopters.com/heavy-lift-helicopter-services/firefighting/
I like the part where these companies call out their California compliance. First above all, is compliance to California Law.
This is the helicopter company in Fillmore:
https://guardianhelicoptersusa.com/firefighting/
In todays episode of “reading comprehension is hard” i’d like to call your attention to the words, in English, 2nd screenshot, “ready to go” and “why havent they been called?” You will observe first that they are ready to go, and therefore not already on their way; second, that they have not been called, and are still ready, therefore waiting to be called. So no, they are not random, and they are far too intelligent to show up uncalled. Speaking of intelligence:
Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a cupcake recipe.
Last I checked, libtards have had full control of the state for decades. Who is working their asses off exactly and what is getting turned around? Maybe try a conservatard.
You forgot that the LA fire chief is a lesbian SJW on a DEI crusade.
https://thepostmillennial.com/first-lesbian-fire-chief-of-la-super-inspired-about-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
"Sorry your house burned down, but the mop up crew that arrived to put out the remnants 2 hours later consisted of 3 trannies including 2 BIPOC, a half Native American / half Korean gay man, 3 black women, and a non-binary Latinx. Diversity before competence: LAFD has our priorities straight. I mean 'queer'! We have our priorities queer!." (Can't believe I said the S-word.)
When you sit and watch all your belongings burn, the most important thing is seeing somebody who looks like you struggling to lift the firehose that could save your house..........
thankfully without any water, that won't be relevant.
You're cracking me up today
He's on a roll!
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Geeze Louis. Even the 17th century aristocrats are laughing in their graves at how stupid the current aristocrats are.
Yeah, but many of those 17th century aristocrats, stupid or not, lost their heads.
The current crop, our would be lords and masters, haven't lost much of anything - yet.
Can we hope there is truth in the old saying about "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"?
Only in one place. Except for France, they did quite well for themselves.
Russia came later.
Some of them have lost their houses, actually.
And they were all cousins married to each other, and they were STILL smarter than the current crop.
Hahaha. True Mary Ann!
because those aristocrats were genuinely intelligent and cultured relative to the masses, whereas the current ones can't even claim that.
That's a really interesting point, Mitch, and one I'm only recently coming to terms with. European aristocracy created a hereditary caste of elites. While they may not be brilliant, both their Christian training and the noblesse-oblige system pushed them to rule well. Imperfectly certainly, and there were lots of corrupt nobles, but much of the time, European nobility did reasonably well by their populations. America didn't have such a rigid caste system, but we did have regional elites (think, the factory owner who built the local library) who viewed themselves as "in the same foxhole" as their fellow local citizens. He may have been wealthier, but he didn't think of himself as "better".
However, when we adopted a national meritocracy, we did two things: 1) took all the smartest people (measured by a very narrow metric) and moved them to big cities where they had little kinship with their fellow urbanites; 2) told them they were the smartest and the best had earned the right to rule (instead of having it gifted to them by their families). This combination worked pretty well while our universities were still producing competent people, but has largely collapsed today. Our elite is less competent than your average electrician or roofer, but has completely unwarranted levels of self confidence in themselves and their moral superiority.
In many ways, we look like the late Qing Mandarins of China. Emperor Daoguang was firmly convinced of his own nation's superiority and right to rule the world. And then 1 British gunboat blew his entire navy out of the Yangtze river in the 1850's. I can't help but wonder if the roles may be reversed this time.
"you didn't have a rainbow sticker in your window so we just watched and let it burn"
lol
But does she know how to "put the wet stuff on the red stuff"? (Not sure I got Mr. Bray's quote from a long ago post exactly correct but its close enough!
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Obviously this is the fault of the President who's about to take office in 12 days and has no ability to affect the local community.
Trump’s evil aura floats over CA and creates all bad things.
The fact that Trump MIGHT not send federal funds at some undetermined future point is the cause of Los Angeles burning down!
"More than a mile" doesn't sound far enough away as this thing continues to grow...
More than a mile south, and it's burning east. Looks okay, but TBD.
Good to hear, Chris. Stay safe!!
Sleep with one eye open tonight.
I agree. In 2020, I was more than a mile away from the fire in the Santa Cruz mountains when I went to bed. Woke at 1:00 am to evacuation as the fire barreled toward my home. The wind switches and everything changes. Like you, the calvary didn't arrive. Those that did let the houses burn, stating they didn't have enough water and manpower to save the neighborhoods. Lost everything. Still a bit surreal.
Horrible.
I'm so sorry to hear it
During those CZU fires, one remote community that had a trained volunteer firefighting contingent, and decided to fight because FU CalFire, saved large sections of their town.
In anarchotyranny, the cavalry is you. Sometimes, that's enough. Sometimes, it isn't.
Prediction: Given the people who just got burned out while the mayor was in Ghana post budget cuts, the fire chief is DEI, and the water is running out (notice who is calling in to local news)... the fire afterward is likely to be every bit as intense as the fire during.
I think some neighborhoods are. The population density where I live is a bit low for that. But there is a free chipping program twice a year that we enthusiastically feed. And those have become more popular since CZU in 2020. Consciousness re forest management is growing.
We’ve transformed our place from an overgrown, scotch broom infested, no site line, dead undergrowth and poison oak choked space to a space with gorgeous site lines, shaded fuel breaks, and scotch broom free. It will never be poison oak free but we beat it back away from used spaces as best we can. Nice views to the coast now as well. We continue to shape and steward the space each year. One of these years we’ll get around to house upgrades. First things first.
It’s a lot of work but I have mad chainsaw skills after 12 years. And to think I used to be terrified of them. We are also refining our collection of tools and equipment to work smarter. Learn as you go.
Yes. It was that community that inspired us to study up and develop our own plan of action. Plus, we have an 8,000 gallon water tank fed by an onsite well (soon to be 15k - we are upgrading to county code. No failed fire hydrants for us. 😉
Good job. I take it your locale is doing Firewise certification and neighborhood planning as well?
I'm so deeply sorry to hear about your loss. I live in the SC Mtns and we had to evacuate for 16 long days when we didn't know if our house was still standing - it was - we were lucky. The prevailing winds blew it right past us but we had an up close view - witnessed someone's propane tank go up across a valley. Still have a bit of PTSD from it. We've equipmented up currently - fire hose, pumps, screens on freeze blocks, roof sprinklers, the works. Plus massive fire mitigation - which were already doing but we expedited some things. We will stay and fight if it happens again. Very much hoping it will not.
Hope you are finding your feet again. 🌸
Yes!
Indeed, stay safe. The probability that the celebrities losing their homes reflect on how their support for leftist policies and politicians led to this outcome and change their views is about as low as the odds of winning the Powerball.
Hi Edwin. Fellow Tampa area resident...but long suffering former SoCal resident.
You are so right. They're getting a taste of their own medicine.
They'll continue to blame this all on GCC despite the overwhelming evidence tgese fires are caused by misguided forest preservation policies.
They've turned entire forests into kindling
It just cracks me up these climatologist and their lackeys are so sure about weather 50 years from now...but can't guess tomorrow afternoons weather.
Ryan, you must be an adrenaline junkie, trading earthquakes and wildfires for hurricanes....
When I prepared to move to the Bay Area from Texas, my old neighbors told me I was nuts (earthquakes), and I responded “But they’re over in seconds vs. hours for a hurricane.” We returned 6 yrs later to Texas to 2 hurricanes and innumerable tropical storms. Then in 2016, we retired to the Smoky Mountains, and in 9 yrs have been subjected to more hurricane remnants that we ever experienced in Texas. (The Appalachians guide weather systems from the southwest to the northeast over Tenn, or from Florida north over either Tenn or North Carolina (as with Helene).
Speaking of Helene, I note that the CA fires were barely underway when Biden issued a huge $$$ grant. IIRC, North Carolina has yet to see FEMA 3.5 months later. May he burn in Hell…
Not sure Satan will accept the delivery.
I noticed that, too. Hopefully, good will come with the funds, good as in water, more firefighters, whatever it takes to bring these fires under control. I cannot bear the suffering.
If the incoming admin cannot stop all or a large part of the grant money, then it will be wasted. My hope is that Trump (& Congress where needed) will greatly retard the flow of unrestricted Federal funds flowing to spendthrift states like CA. Force tangible, real world objectives on them. CA has wasted untold billions on fighting (and recovering from) fires caused by refusal to clean up forest floors. If CA wants to continue that practice, then let them pay for it.
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LOL, pick your poison.
I know. You're not kidding. We've had 4 hurricanes, in 4 years, that were virtually direct hits where I live between Tampa and Sarasota.
All that and the alligators is why I remind the husband we'll be staying here.
He gets a little wistful, South-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line look in his eyes when we're in the midst of snow and brutal cold, as we are now. The snow and cold will end around April with little to no residual damage, summer and fall will be spectacular. :)
Hahaha.
Yup. We had a gator that got trapped in our pool. Cost me over a grand to have him removed. Joy!
Is there, like, a place you call for alligator removal? Is it a full-time job? Does one need certification or do you just hang out a shingle and hope for the best? Is OSHA involved?
That sounds like more than I'd want to pay. I hear they taste like chicken...
Sounds like you bypass Spring? (In Houston, we had 2 seasons: Cold & Wet and Unbeatably Hot & Wet. In lucky years, we had 2 weeks of Spring and 2 weeks of Fall, but never in the same year.)
Vermont has six official seasons, spring being the shortest and most disappointing. We tend to go from uncomfortably cool in April and early May to summer heat by June. On our mountain we've had measurable snowfall after Mother's Day a few times. It's not common, but also not shockingly rare.
As for seasons, we've got the usual four, but in addition there's "mud season", those weeks after the snow melts and everything, everywhere is muck. It is of variable length, depending on the depth of the snow pack and how long it takes to melt.
After the last of the spectacular fall leaves finally drop from the trees in late October, but there's been no snow cover yet, we have what's called "stick season", because that's pretty much what the trees look like. It, too, is of variable length.
Its sad when someone loses their home and life possessions but a little less sad when its the Hollywood elite!
🎯 If only the fire “passed over” houses bearing the mark of MAGA…
With God, all things are possible.
Do you know exactly where the fire started?
I'm not sure
Thanks for reporting. I hope all goes well for you.
My one big fat comment: Not such a hot idea to have imposed those jab mandates, huh? How many experienced firefighters retired early or got fired as a result? And why isn't anyone in the MSM asking this basic question?
At least 113 in LA alone.
https://www.foxla.com/news/lafd-113-firefighters-off-duty-without-pay-due-to-vaccine-mandate
When you consider the National Guard, the federal assets in play, and other departments -- gotta be like 1,000, right?
I would think so.
"why isn't anyone in the MSM asking this basic question?"
Could it possibly have something to do with he fact that there are NO "basic questions" on the list of permitted topics?
Just askin'.
in what area of knowledge, isn't their ignorance assumed? I've never seen them get a story right about anything I knew of personally.
Good point Transcrber B
Quite a few passed away suddenly in many fire departments. Still are
Sorry to hear this. But not surprised.
I was wondering how you were doing. Glad you're a mile away. Terrible about all the homes and businesses being destroyed. I'm surprised there aren't more fatalities. That's a good thing and I hope the count stays low. On the upside, you do have a lesbian fire chief and racialist black mayor. And the governor flowed trillions of gallons of perfectly good fresh water out into the Pacific instead of building reservoirs and saving for fire fighting, to prevent global climate change, I think.
I do have sympathy for my friends and people like James Woods and you who aren't part of the problem: I've been through both a fire where we lost almost everything and flood that took huge amounts away. Looking at the videos, though, I'm reminded of Joseph De Maistre's observation about the French Revolution and the catastrophe that ended up being: "People in democracies get the governments they deserve".
Danny Huckabee
“…to prevent global climate change, I think.”
Actually, to save the “Delta smelt.”
In love how you always sign your posts.
It's weird, right? I mean, your moniker is already right there. But it tickles me too.
100%
Say the first line to yourself to the mirror & the last three sentences were relevant because they point to the people in charge being incompetent. Stop with the stupid
Anyone ever used the term "sociopathic narcissist" about you? Block me, too, please.
You are stonkingly rude. Kiss your mother with that mouth?
Luckily I can flush you way by blocking.
I was wondering why I wasn’t seeing this guy’s post and realized I’d blocked him a year ago≈. What an 🫏-hole.
I blocked him. Permanently. He posted dozens of times, calling me the scum of the earth and a bunch of other things over and over and over. I asked him to limit himself to calling me the scum of the earth ten to twelve times per comment thread, for the sake of being less tedious, and he couldn't bring himself to stop. Anyone can call me anything they want to call me, but I get bored the fiftieth time.
Would have been a useful post without the first sentence. Not the way to thoughtfully engage with your fellow citizens, you ignorant, pathetic moron.
A huge portion of the LA basin water supply comes from Northern CA through a series of dams, reservoirs, and a gigantic pipeline/aqueduct system built in the '30's-'40's. It was an amazing feat of engineering at the time. They haven't added 1 acre feet of water supply since the early '70's.
Danny
I posting this hoping e.oierce calls me names. I feel neglected and overlooked.
Chinatown - ever seen it? Water.
Funny!
But they have SUBTRACTED some…
This!
Richard, I just asked him to block me. What a loser of a human being.
Where does the local water come from then, if not from state-wide supplies? It's not as if aquifers and rain care about lines on maps.
There is a report on X that most of California's water is owned by the Resnick couple who seized control of California's water supply in 1994. The Resnicks own a huge expanse of farmland in central California. Here's the link: https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1877053423075377518
In fairness to the Resnicks, they run HUGE farms in the Central Valley. It’s not like they’re hoarding water. (Growing food used to be considered a good thing.) (As a former resident of the East Bay, I can tell you that the only way to assure fair & appropriate allocation of water in CA is using a group of angels to do the allocating.)
The only villain in this story is the environmental movement which has adamantly opposed 100% of surface water runoff collection efforts since the 1970s. I don’t mean it’s opposed “excessive” collection; I mean it’s opposed ANY runoff collection.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-stormwater-capture-pete-wilson-20190302-story.html
https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2015/04/02/vdh-how-jerry-brown-engineered-californias-drought-n259966
3 sources: Rainfall, spring snowmelt from the Sierras, and diversion of most of the flow of the Colorado River at Parker Dam at Lake Havasu on the Calif/Ariz border. Since the early 1980’s, LA’s water draw on the Colorado has been limited by the need to keep the water level at Hoover Dam (upstream on the Colorado) high enough to power the electric generators which supply LA and Las Vegas.
Which are filled by rain and snow-melt, and said wells are inter-connected to the aquiferous layers in the ground.
Pumping out more than replacement-levels means lowering the level overall, sometimes permanently (which can also happen due to natural causes).
I'm sure the US Geological Survey has groundwater-maps online. Most nations' GS do.
California is grossly overpopulated for its natural resources, especially water. If it had not been for the Depression era Central Valley Project, Calif would be unable to feed or water itself. In the late 1930s, Calif’s population was ≈5.1M. In the ensuing 85 yrs, very little water COLLECTION infrastructure has been built to accommodate the 700% population growth. Lots & lots of infrastructure has been built to move water from the north to LA, but almost nothing to ADD to the water available.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/california/population
Sounds like here.
Add 2 000 000 through migration and migrants breeding. 90% settling in urban areas.
Then act surprised when the power grid, sewage systems and water supplies get over-taxed by over-pressure, compounded by neglect thanks to thirty years of Friedman-style neoliberal policies.
Now, in some cities, the grid is so over-extended they have to turn down companies wanting to establish factories or expand existing businesses, causing both domestic and international companies to look outside Sweden.
Truly, the most important lesson of Sokrates is now forgotten: to understand and know what you don't understand or know.
Interview with the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department about her top priorities:
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1876979473754583204
The government is getting so bloated an inefficient that they can't even handle the basic aspects of actually governing.
The firefighting force is diverse, though!
This looks like Maui 2.0.
Obvious nonresponse, no water, inept local bureaucratic uselessness, and, among other things, prime real estate now becoming available.
The most cruel being that "coincidentally" fire insurance was cancelled on many now being affected as recently as four months ago.
But where is Oprah? Another coinkydink? Her house is way up in Montecito.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oprah-winfrey-a-new-earth-awakening-to-your-lifes-purpose-book-club-pick/
It's not the problems that are the problem, it's how you think about them, take out the ego..... so, if your house and pets burn down, it's your ego...
The fire insurance cancellations are happening all over California.
California's insurance regulators are trying to hold down the cost and "fight for consumers!" by restricting price increases. Result: insurers are reducing their risk by not renewing coverage, thus lowering the number of California properties in their pools. They're cancelling policies in freaking city neighborhoods near me, based on computer models that are best described as early-version blunt instruments. The alternative is a state government "F.A.I.R." plan that offers bare-bones insurance with uncertain financial backing for very high prices. Our entire neighborhood has been forced to go that route. You can "go naked" without fire insurance - but then how do you get or keep a mortgage?
Nor is this confined to California. Florida is doing similar things around home insurance, and Texas likewise has problems in this area. The whole industry is having a quiet crisis around risk and reserves, and the B2B reinsurance market is choking alongside.
Gavin (Bates) could personally drown a devout leftist’s child in a bucket of his hair gel, and the leftist would only mutter “why would Donald Trump do this!?”
Chris, I’m struggling to imagine what possible genuine need there is for the Mayor of Los Angeles to be visiting Ghana.
She's making there to be feelings about social justice all over the world, monster!
Well, that’s a good enough reason for me. Thank you for putting me straight.
Just as bad, Biden is in LA now, with Gov. Gruesome, speaking unintelligibly 20 feet from a podium and microphone. Plus, air traffic controls related to his presence may be one of the reasons tanker planes can't fly.
I just watched Slow Joe babbling and slurring at us. Pray.
Twelve days, Chris. Then, maybe displaced Angelenos can begin to take over western British Columbia.
But how fitting that Biden and Gavin should be there posturing while the nicer parts next to Hollywood burn to the ground. Talk about presiding over the Apocalypse.
Good grief.
Feelinz...
lol
Not only do the Leftists not realize the cause and effect of their own actions, even when it hits them, the don't realize they are the most protected on the lifestyle of DNC imposed decay. MAGA (insert obligatory derisive sneer here) has been dealing with this for years, at a much a worse rate. "Absolute hell" was the day that Marthas Vinyard residents had to endure illegal migrants, (sans any crime etc.) is an ideal example.
I expect the LBGTQ Fire Chief/ LA Mayor/ Media to blame (semi conservative) Orange county residents for taking baths as the reason for the (100%) drop in water pressure...
Nailed it
like!
Chris - please stay safe and smart...but you already know this.
I wasn't one time and my wife and I spent a night terrified in our car off of I-15.
It happened sooooo fast...I didn't even see it coming
We're packed. Cats are very unhappy at the appearance of the carriers. How did your night end?
Glad to hear, buddy.
Oh man, we eventually left our car and hiked down the backside of the mountain (took 14 hours). My father in law finally found us off some backwoods state hwy 20 hours later...so almost 30 hours terrified.
glad you made it out alive RG
Yes 🙌🏼
yes!
Ain't gonna lie....we were scared