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Miley Cyrus, Gerard Butler, Neil Young and More Lose Homes in Woolsey Fire
variety.com ^ | 11/12/2018 | R. Ruben

Posted on 11/12/2018 10:39:10 AM PST by rktman

In a post on his website, Young said he hoped the calamitous fires would urged people to take action on the impact of climate change.

“Firefighters have never seen anything like this in their lives. I have heard that said countless times in the past two days, and I have lost my home before to a California fire, now another,” he wrote. “Hopefully we can come together as a people to take climate change on. We have the tools and could do it if we tried. There is no downside.”

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KEYWORDS: bigfire; califwildfires; celebrityhomes; localnews; losses; neilyoung; tds
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To: OKSooner

Southern man don’t need him around anyhow................


21 posted on 11/12/2018 10:46:51 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: conservative98

Neil Young: Old Asshat who gave up searching for a heart of gold and settled for a head of mush.


22 posted on 11/12/2018 10:46:53 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: rktman

[[I have heard that said countless times in the past two days,]]

Well there ya have it folks, Neil ‘heard it countless times’ over 2 days, by firefighters no less, therefore ‘man-caused’ climate change is real

Holy Mackerel these folks are shallow thinking low info people


23 posted on 11/12/2018 10:47:02 AM PST by Bob434
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To: conservative98

WOW that President Trump sure does have some amazing power, he can literally set houses on fire from THOUSANDS of miles away. Yeah, and Trump is supposed to feel sympathy for these people..They are rich, they can put their pennies together and rebuild


24 posted on 11/12/2018 10:48:18 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: All
“Hopefully we can come together as a people to take climate change on. We have the tools and could do it if we tried. There is no downside.”

We could spend every dollar ever coined without making any discernible difference. Sorry you lost your digs but don't take it out on the rest of us.

25 posted on 11/12/2018 10:48:58 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rktman

There were no fires in California before now.


26 posted on 11/12/2018 10:50:14 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I feel mockery for their homeowner insurance companies.
The state has laughable fire codes, and has been in the process of trying to foist those stupid policies on the nation as a whole.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


27 posted on 11/12/2018 10:52:48 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: rktman

Not crying a tear for these morons.


28 posted on 11/12/2018 10:52:54 AM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: AppyPappy

Sort of like before the 2016 elections there were no Trumpicanes, Trumphoons or Trumpnadoes?


29 posted on 11/12/2018 10:52:56 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

“In a post on his website, Young said he hoped the calamitous fires would urged people to take action on the impact of climate change.”

Too bad Young didn’t get caught in the fire. I don’t know about the other two.


30 posted on 11/12/2018 10:53:39 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rktman
This is the Bui/Bender house that survived the 1993 Laguna Beach firestorm when every other house in the neighborhood burned to the ground:

How and why it survived can be found in this article:

https://www.finehomebuilding.com/1995/06/01/fire-resistant-details

31 posted on 11/12/2018 10:54:31 AM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
😀
32 posted on 11/12/2018 10:55:00 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Pelham

I remember that. Guess other folks just didn’t want to spend that extra money.


33 posted on 11/12/2018 10:55:36 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Sorry, but the wildfires been around for a while now...It is not caused by Global Warming or Climate Change...Liberals show us proof that we are causing Global Warming...and I’ll have ConservaTeen reject it...


34 posted on 11/12/2018 10:59:48 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: rktman

My mother always said “If you can’t say something nice.....”


35 posted on 11/12/2018 11:01:27 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: rktman

Neil go back to Canada you stupid buffoon.

Try cut some fire breaks around your towns, the trees are all dead and et up by insects anyway because you Eco-Idiots wont spray them.

I hate to say this, but in a real way you are all getting what you deserve.


36 posted on 11/12/2018 11:02:56 AM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: rktman

It turns out that what Bui did to his Laguna Beach house didn’t cost much.

He made sure that the roof vents wouldn’t allow embers into the attic space- this is a major way that houses catch fire, even when they have cement roof tile.

He built with minimal or no eaves- superheated air will collect under roof overhangs and ignite the structure there.

Any and all exposed wood was covered with a very thick coating of stucco- maybe an inch thick.

I don’t know if he did anything with shutters, but ‘fire shutters’ prevent radiant heat from igniting the inside of the house when the windows remain intact. Fire shutters would be an added expense to a house. The ember proof roof vents, minimal eaves, and stucco coating wood surfaces doesn’t add much at all.


37 posted on 11/12/2018 11:05:46 AM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: rktman

Good. Move to Canada. Better, buy a villa on top of Vesuvius or Etna.


38 posted on 11/12/2018 11:08:00 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: rktman

Never had a fire in Kali before? Oh, Wait!

Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840.
California...
“The only thing which diminishes its beauty is, that the hills have no large trees upon them, they having been all burnt by a great fire which swept them off about a dozen years before, and they had not yet grown up again.

The fire was described to me by an inhabitant, as having been a very terrible and magnificent sight. The air of the whole valley was so heated that the people were obliged to leave the town and take up their quarters for several days upon the beach.”

Can we blame this 1838 fire on TRUMP?


39 posted on 11/12/2018 11:08:42 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Pelham

Interesting read, thanks for the link. My Aunt lives in Laguna Beach.


40 posted on 11/12/2018 11:09:04 AM PST by Tailback
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