I am happy for him too.
But going forward he faces several challenges.
1. There will be parts of his structures that did have damages of getting partially melted due to heat proximity. Before he closes out his insurance claims he will need to thoroughly have it all inspected.
2. His insurance will be canceled by the end of January 2026.
3. It may be impossible for a while to sell his house for what would have been considwred a reasonable price due to the core issues facing California due to incompetence and corruption in government.
4. His neighborhood is going to be a loud construction zone for the next decade.
I expect that many Californians of good means are going to carefully take stock of this crisis and consider the risks of continuing to domicile, live, spend, invest, earn, and have assets in California. Suppose someone with a 2M house in Pacific Palisades has 10M net worth. They lost the house and have 8M other assets. They could move into their “Not Cali” home or buy one to do this & remotely handle getting whatever they can salvage out of Cali. They should be careful about going to places like Denver, New California or Albuquerque, New Woke, Poor Deadend, Oregon, or See Ate All, Washington that have been kalifornicated. The blue zone blues are a big problem.
Nothing you say here is wrong…in fact, if anything you didn’t cover the full range of disaster that attempting to rebuild in California will be. Adam Corolla hit on it right away the first night of the fire. The REAL disasters are going to begin when the fires are finally put out. And they will be much longer lasting than the fires.
From the time people decide to rebuild to the first load of lumber is dropped off is going to be 5 years in California if people are very lucky and prepared to make all the bureaucrats in the permitting offices millionaires to do it. And the rebuild cost will be 5-10 times greater than the value of the home pre-fire. And you will never be able to insure the property…ever. For those on the coast the only answer from the permit bureaucrats, regardless of the amount of the bribe offered, will be “F**K YOU”. Probably in exactly those words.
No, if the residents think they’ve seen Hell this week, they haven’t seen anything yet. And Joe Biden is still abusing them - telling them the government will cover all the cost regardless of amount. That is classic Joe-Shit. He’s gone in a week. The Feds are broke after keeping Ukraine rolling in it for 4 years. That’s not happening, as much as the guilty politicians in California will scream and yell. Unless the state government and local governments are dissolved and reformed…they aren’t getting a load of Adam Schiff delivered.
I am happy for James Woods because he loved his house. He’s going to have very few neighbors for many, many years. But the Hell is just getting warmed up in California and it’s going to get much, much worse for everyone. In the lifetime of everyone living there now, regardless of how young or old, it will never be anything like what it was before this.