California Wildfires running thread

[HanSenSE]

The smelt is not insignificant to the larger predators who feed on them.

The North vs. South and ag vs city water wars in this state is the stuff of legends.

 

[I Should Coco]

The North vs. South and ag vs city water wars in this state is the stuff of legends.

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I believe that was the backdrop for the Chinatown movie.

(ow, my nose!)

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[Twirling Time]

I smelt that response coming ....

He who smelt it, dealt it.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[Neutral Corner]

The Doors' hit 'Light My Fire' was written in Pacific Palisades home that burned

 

[poindexter]

You could double the fire budget and nothing would have changed. It is soo soo sad. I am in an area yet unaffected, but I've had a sinking feeling since thanksgiving. No rain, and this was just gonna happen. Making this political is because we are stupid.

I've hiked that Eaton Canyon water fall three times in the last couple years. We hiked Eaton Canyon last father's day, with my kids, my wife and my beloved dog. God knows what has happened to Eaton Canyon now. I am incredibly depressed.

 

[poindexter]

Imagine any of you - you wake on Tuesday morning and your life is fine. By Tuesday night, your house and all of your possessions are gone. And the block where you live. Obliterated like a neutron bomb.

 

[WriteThinking]

These fires don't have to be political issue, but they are certainly a financial one. I guess it's fortunate that most who live in the Pacific Palisades area generally are well off, but imagine going through these events and not having insurance? Fire insurance, like earthquake insurance, is becoming difficult to get, or keep, in California. Which seems criminal. But the $150 billion+ price tag expected to be pinned on the Palisades fire explains a lot.

MSN

Pacific Palisades, the Los Angeles neighborhood that's been devastated by the Palisades Fire, is emblematic of the insurance nightmare increasingly facing homeowners residing in regions prone to climate disasters.

About 1,600 policies in Pacific Palisades were dropped by State Farm in July, California Department of Insurance spokesman Michael Soller said in an Thursday email to CBS MoneyWatch. An analysis of insurance data by CBS San Francisco last year found that State Farm also dropped more than 2,000 policies in two other Los Angeles ZIP codes, which include the Brentwood, Calabasas, Hidden Hills and Monte Nido neighborhoods.

 

[WriteThinking]

You could double the fire budget and nothing would have changed. It is soo soo sad. I am in an area yet unaffected, but I've had a sinking feeling since thanksgiving. No rain, and this was just gonna happen. Making this political is because we are stupid.

I've hiked that Eaton Canyon water fall three times in the last couple years. We hiked Eaton Canyon last father's day, with my kids, my wife and my beloved dog. God knows what has happened to Eaton Canyon now. I am incredibly depressed.

I don't want to "like" this post, but I agree with it whole-heartedly. People are being arrogant to think they know how they/we would have been able to stop or even curtail these fires very much. Mother Nature is more powerful than anything else in such circumstances. But blaming others is what people do when they feel helpless otherwise, and don't know what else to do.

 

[ChrisLong]

I've been saying exactly this in various threads over the past 3 days. Mother Nature wins, doesn't matter how much water or how many firefighters you have. It would not have changed a thing in 100 mph winds. STFU, Trump, Caruso, any other blowhards who don't know ship about this.

 

[Twirling Time]

This is not a political thread and I will keep it so, but I just want to say uninsured residents have nine days to gain federal financial redress. That's it.