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Wildfires California
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Absolutely horrible that folks have to evacuate and lose everything. News says it is not under control and spreading with the 60-90 mph winds.
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Devastating
Yes, it’s a crying shame! Too bad a big wad of money is going to all the migrants instead of helping these poor folks.
Yep, the democrat mayor cut $17.6 million from the FD, the fire chief openly made it clear DEI was her priority. In Blue CA, DEI & illegal immigrant get the money.
I hope all our Kal posters are spared
Not that it will change, but at some point , ihope the people will realize the democrats do not care about them and stop voting them in
I seen that rolling through making Hollywood "actors" homeless. Make me wonder if newsom will get the third recall over this of shift blame to pg&e.
40+ years of unmaintained growth and dam busting. Those drop ships better be getting ocean water. Oh right the epa won't stand for it because of the salt content. Then again L.A. is built on a desert. Return to natural state? Or will it look more like "Demolition Man" when they "rebuild"?
A few years ago......I read that about 80% of these "wildfires" are actually "set" by pyromaniac fire bugs. It seems highly suspicious that such a high percentage occur in California.
Whatdaya think????🤔
I am not sure about that happening. But I was listening to a reporter on the radio talking about when the winds are high the electric company turns off the power. The reporter was saying that the family went around the house lighting candles for light.
That does not make sense to me when there is so much chance of a fire from a candle. The thing that does not make sense to me is that if fire is such a danger why is the fire dept. and Natl Guard not on alert in neighborhoods ready to knock down a fire as quickly as possible to keep from spreading.
It is L.A. which kind a gets all those nutzos. Homeless encampment cook out got out of hand? Some "street avenger" wanted rich people to be cold and homeless. You know equality.
Yeah pg&e and I think eddison down South will turn off power after pg&e got sued for Santa Rosa/Paradise fire. Better safe than sorry is to protect their bottom line. I was just sitting in the dark for 34 hours a few weeks ago. newsom will ban candles next. I mean he still has another three years? They already got gas cooking stove ban and date, their working on gas water heater now. I'll be living in a state with bad electric grid with everything that will require electricity. Yup living in the 1880s in the 21st century.
While I wish no ill upon those affected, one has to question WHY they made their choices.
Now we get to pay for the fires. Newsom is now looking to the Feds to bail him out.
now that the elite holywood actors are mad see what happens they are spending resorces to protect the hollywood sign
They make those choices because they suffer from “opti-rectum-itis”. (They have their heads up their arses!!)
I's hard for me to garner much sympathy for a rich dude losing has $10M home but not everyone there is rich. There are wage earners and small shop owners. Those folks I feel for.
'Now we get to pay for the fires. Newsom is now looking to the Feds to bail him out.'
I read that some insurance policies had been dropped due to the mismanagement of fire protection services but there are other insurance providers. Those neighborhoods don't look like welfare housing so why don't the residents have insurance of their own? Has the state accepted complete and total blame for failure of the fire control?
l read somewhere that 80% of nuts come from Cali. Seriously: almonds, walnuts, etc
Our home owners increased 23% last August. I hate to think about the next renewal.
On behalf of Californians. Thank you. I suppose you alls will be getting new neighbors. f.e.m.a. better start buying tarps for the California legal motorhomes. Downtown will be crowded.
Looking at the pictures 'pre-fire' I don't know people could live like that all huddled together like maggots on roadkill. I guess it's a different mentality than I'm used to. Not to appear unsympathetic or callous but what did all those homeowners expect?
"what did all those homeowners expect?"
They expected the government to ride to the rescue and save them. Isn't that, after all, the sole reason for government to exist, to save us from our silly selves?
They were talking about insurance the other day, and the way I understood it. A couple of insurance companies were going to raise their premiums account of all the fires California has had over the last few years, and account of inflation. But Newsom stepped in and said if they raised their rates they wouldn’t be allowed to operate in California, so they just stopped issuing fire insurance in California. So I amagine a lot of these people that lost their home were not covered with fire insurance. How people keep electing this idiot governor is beyond me.
But I’m from Illinois so I understand stupidity when it comes to politics.
Drought, 100 mile an hour winds and fire.
Next mudslides, earthquakes, and idiot Governor speaking. (that got elected)
Go West young man is not a good thing now days.
People insist on building expensive houses in locations that are difficult or impossible to protect from fire. We have the same thing going on in Colorado, and many of those people here moved in from California. They insist on building the home the way they want and refuse to follow fire codes for residences in the mountains. Then when a forest fire starts, they whine for the firefighters to protect their precious home instead of putting the fire out.
And that my friend is a liberal. Without government liberals can't exist.
I have read pretty boy cut 100 million dollars in funding for fire fighting and of course used it for illegals and other worthy causes
Peope voting for him, and his clones deserved it, but sadly, they took down so many good people, by doing so ,but their sheeple numbers and blind to what's being done and over riding the comom sense groups
"Drought, 100 mile an hour winds and fire." Not quite: it was a drought, 40-50 mph wind, and fire.
November 2 2022, my homestead was threatened by an accidental widlfire. We lost 4 outbuildings and almost $100,000 worth of tools, supplies, and equipment BUT the house was saved. WHY? Because I did not run away like a scared school girl. I fought the fire as I would fight any threat—-to the last ounce of strength. Cost me a helo ride to the nearest burn center and weeks of recovery but I recovered in the house I'd saved. With this in mind, I don't really feel as much sympathy for those folks who just grabbed their shoes and ran away.
I saw an interview of a California homeowner who had done everything he could to save his house and succeeded. When asked what his final plan was, he said "Run into the ocean". I'd like to shake his hand.
Well who knows how the fire started, news says it might be the electric companies fault. Who cares. 250 Thousand people are without homes. Whether they owned them or rented all the same. Millions dollar residences or mobile homes fire has no mercy. When the folks are told to evacuate they did or more folks would have died. And where is FEMA? 55 square mile so far burned up . And as far as living like fireants in the subdivisions they are all over America.. .25 acre lots with a home you can reach out and touch thru a window. The weather was the cause with high santa anna winds.
Wow asking for 150k more folks to evacuate.
Just awful
The thing is, my Dad has a client who is well to do and had a contact with the state of California to clear all dead trees and brush ECT. Trump left office and Newscum cancelled the contracts. Since then Mark has pretty much sold off all his California property except a family ranch and their home and has moved permanently to Tennessee. And meanwhile California is burning. We are ok here because it's damp and wet.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
So many things went wrong that didn't need to
I don't remember fires like these in the past, did Kalifornia have fires like this in the 1960's, 1970's, and 80's or did they keep the brush cut back and do controlled burns then?
we never had them this bad @bundy but I left there 30+ years ago and you nailed it.
"I don't remember fires like these in the past, did Kalifornia have fires like this in the 1960's, 1970's, and 80's or did they keep the brush cut back and do controlled burns then?"
I find it fascinating that there are areas where scores of houses are burned to the ground and there are trees that survived. To paraphrase Admiral Beaty(?) during the battle of Jutland; There is something wrong with our bloody houses today.
Brad Steele
Have seen that on Storm King Mountain near West Point in a big fire about 20yrs ago. Pines go fast but if real windy underbrush vaporizes and a lot of hardwood actually survives to live on.————Ray
A local/State government has to have their priorities and now we see the results.
You got that right
This is relevant to the above topic and the insurance… If you read, you'll see the point.
My wife works for a non-profit health care organization. They are slowly going broke in spite of being one of the oldest in the area. Why? They are a full service hospital. Emergency Room's are very costly to have and run and almost never come close to breaking even. They can operate this necessity for the community because it is paid for by other more profitable things. In the past few decades, clinics open up and take all the high profit procedures, surgeries, imaging, etc.
My thought on insurance companies is if they do any business, they should have to insure ALL aspects, not pick and choose. Some years one aspect is extremely costly for them, whereas other years those same things will go many years as a cash cow. If they have to cover all insurable areas, they will somewhat level off and one will help pay for the other. The way it is if they are allowed to pick and choose it is akin to the clinics above taking all the profitable stuff. What will happen then is only a few insurance companies will cover the highest risk stuff and they won't have the ability to spread it across all their markets. So, as a result, those insurances will be extremely high, possibly even cost prohibitive. The people that need insurance the most likely won't be able to afford the coverage at all.