Posted on 01/11/2025 4:58:31 AM PST by MtnClimber
All California needs now is an unprecedented earthquake.
What about somebody with a homemade meth lab in the boonies?
Those can easily cause fires.
If you listen to the interviews on local news coverage it looks like most people who lived both Pacific Palisades and Altadena had lived there for many years—or had homes passed down from one generation to another.
Proposition 13 gave major incentives for folks to keep homes “in the family” and/or stay where you are.
Otherwise homeowners would be looking at severe property tax increases.
That is one way that the middle class copes with CA insanely high housing prices.
I see young dyke couples in their 20s living in those cracke boxes by the sea. What gives?
Fixed it.
I am guessing most of those homes (or at least the land itself) were passed down from relatives—with legal games played to keep within the rules of Proposition 13.
In addition many of the ocean front properties are rented so those who live there may not be the owners.
One reason I left CA many decades ago was that I was renting—nice places btw—but could never afford to buy anywhere I wanted to live.
The rent/buy ratio was and in still is way out of whack—since CA folks think real estate will go up and up forever.
So far they have been correct in most cases.
An insurance company not renewing your policy is not “cancelling” your insurance.
Maybe this is the big break for Boxabl houses?
Methinks after we count the dead and homeless we come to realize LA never had the number of voters to match the “ballots” cast for democrats....
“Life imitates art,”
Don’t flatter yourself
Sometimes it just burns it
Back when WHITE MEN ran California, their approach to fires was to assume that they would ALWAYS start, usually due to man, sometimes by accident (a gust of wind at a BBQ), or by arson. Either way, they did not care how they started, but they ALWAYS assumed that they would start and developed approaches to either put them out early or at least keep them away from heavily populated areas.
Now California is basically run like South Africa, where the DEIs were given an EXCELLENT infrastructure to deal with fires, but through a combination of hiring inept people and corruption, simply cannot (or, even worse, will not) operate and maintain that infrastructure properly.
Enabling DEI is one of the PRIME REASONS that I blast conservatives here who claim that ‘there’s no difference between the parties’ so why does voting in November even matter? The bottom line was that through the 1980s the state was essentially run by Republicans (or at least Democrats who knew to keep qualified people running critical services, and NOTHING like this fire ever happened).
Or more likely most of them will flee California. I have mixed feelings about this. I'm a refugee from Illinois myself, but insofar as many of them created their own mess, one doesn't want them to spread their politics and dysfunction elsewhere. I'm leaning more and more towards the idea that voting (at least for local positions) should be restricted to permanent residents of a community who have been there for some time, and thus best know the local issues and candidates.
And those with prop 13 homes in the family, most are dying off or will be. Eventually everyone in California will be paying sky high taxes
CA will become like rent-controlled Manhattan—lots of dead people without death certificates buried out of state in the middle of the night.
Bonus—the family keeps cashing those social security checks.
“The permitting process will take years.“
True. Right now they aren’t letting fire trucks from m other states thru until they’ve been DOT inspected. Pure insanity.
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“Someone forgot to fill up the fire hydrants.”
This all is beginning to make me think of a the great old Jethro Tull classic, Locomotive Breath
In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all-time loser
Headlong to his death
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won’t stop going
No way to slow down
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations one by one
His woman and his best friend
In bed and having fun
He’s crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won’t stop going
No way to slow down
He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls
He picks up Gideons’ Bible
Open at page one
God - He stole the handle and
The train it won’t stop going
No way to slow down
JOE BIDEN’S TRIP==
A LARGE NO FLY ZONE THAT PREVENTED HELOS & PLANES FROM DROPPING WATER
“YOU CAN DEPEND ON JOE TO “F THINGS UP”
SAME FOR THOSE FROM NEVADA
IF I WERE EITHER OF THOSE GOVERNORS——
I WOULD MAKE DAMNED SURE THE WHOLE WORLD KNEW THIS.
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