Someone forgot to fill up the fire hydrants.
James Howard Kunstler ping
This smells love me scapegoating to me. They’re trying to deflect blame away from their stupid ecological policies.
“You also have to wonder how this disaster will end up affecting the movie industry.”
Gee, that is way down on my list of things to remotely care about. They haven’t had an original idea in decades. As far as I’m concerned, Hollywood, and celebrity culture died long ago. I feel for those who lost their homes, but I somehow cannot muster sympathy for the movie industry.
Excellent article! Thank you for posting!
I know the area where the 2 biggest fires started very well, Palisades and Eaton, I have lived her for 64 years. There is absolutely NOTHING for Miles and miles from where these fires started. It is way to far off the beaten path for them to be homeless camps, Miles Uphill and far from civilization where they could congregate and panhandle for their drugs. I do not believe it was a miraculous case of spontaneous combustion from the ice cold winds. I firmly believe every last one was intentionally set, why, well your guess is as good as mine. But they DID NOT START ACCIDENTALLY.
You also have to wonder how this disaster will end up affecting the movie industry.
Los Angeles is going to take a financial hit that they may not recover from. The loss of the property tax revenue is one thing, but also the loss of all the businesses paying taxes, and the people in those communities paying taxes.
All gone and will take decades if ever to be back to where it was.
We in the rest of the country may be in for cant-find-a-contractor as they flock from the fifty states to get on the disaster in California gravy train. This is a situation where guys will put up with a lot of hard living and hard work for eighteen months to rake it in …
“multi-million-dollar houses, even modest ones built in the 1960s”
No, they are $100,000 houses built on multi-million dollar land.
BTTT
The firetrucks sent from Oregon had to be inspected prior to being driven to LA and then they have to be inspected again before heading home.
All California needs now is an unprecedented earthquake.
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.