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Some pictures from the Pacific Palisades fire have been posted.
Burned and melted hot rods.
That hit me harder than I would have expected.
Especially after reading David Freiburger talking about how he's lived in the area his whole life and his reading about how California deserved it.
I replied to that thread telling him that we got the same shit after Helene and Milton and to keep his chin up.
I don't feel California had it coming any more than Sarasota or North Carolina did.
But there's definitely things California could have done that would have mitigated the fires, or even made them a non-event.
You have to cut fire breaks.
You have to make the roads that let people escape.
You have to maintain the infrastructure that keeps the hydrants flowing.
California failed to do that.
The people of California voted for the people who would neglect those things.
Did I say, "neglect?"
I meant to say actively destroyed and worked against policies that would have kept this from getting out of hand.
At one time California had the water thing figured out.
Environmentalists made sure that was undone.
Fire breaks are fundamental in keeping wildfires under control.
Environmentalists made sure none were cut.
Expanding roads to make sure gridlock doesn't trap people on the roads and prevent first responders from responding is part and parcel of an increasing population.
Environmentalists and NIMBYist combined to make sure roads weren't widened.
California voters didn't vote to stop or even slow environmentalists and have, thus, reaped the whirlwind.
Florida is about to enter its wildfire season. Wanna bet we don't make the national news. Again...
The root cause is LA was not meant for large scale human habitation. It's a desert and they have to bring water from very far away. It's a basin prone to temperature inversions, which led to epic smog, and on the outskirts they build houses on stilts on the side of ravines and have tiny roads serving thousands. The environmentalist driven edicts against cutting fire breaks, widening major roads and mandating defensible space around dwellings exacerbates the fundamental problems. Florida has building codes that minimize hurricane damage, and mechanisms in place to evacuate and remediate. LA blames "climate change" when many of those wild fires are started by humans.
ReplyDeleteI live in Oregon and even out in the high desert water is right there, and the occasional temperature inversion just spoils skiing. Meanwhile we have an extensive program of controlled burns, fuel removal, and building codes for the inevitable forest fires.
I feel bad for the people who got burned out, but like people who build on barrier islands and watch their houses wash away, there is,personal responsibility for being in a risky location in the first place
We, Florida, got lax in fire safety and forestry management. Then we had The Firestorms of 1998. Which, of course, Californians made fun of our state burning from one end to another.
ReplyDeleteWe, Florida, responded by being very gung-ho on controlled burns, cutting fire breaks, managing the forests properly (which, in a southern pine forest, means the trees aren't on top of each other, well, in a wild forest,) better building codes, establishing fire camps throughout the state and such.
You know, kind of like how we change for the better every time a major hurricane hits us hard.
California, sadly, is reaping the whirlwind they sowed.
Last time I remember fires making much news in Florida was in early 2007 when I was coming home from saying goodbye to my mom. I75 was shut down, but US19 was open.
DeleteBear well in mind that in this situation, the "environmentalists" of which you speak are the government PTB, at local, state, and federal levels.
ReplyDeleteIt's not so much a question of electing idiots (though that's a factor) as it is that the entire cowplop that is government, at every level, has been completely colonized with Leftist idiots with an agenda axe to grind.
The missing firebreaks? Those are on federal land.
The controlled burns that never happened? Federal land.
Wide enough streets and arterial highways? City and state.
Water? City and state. Federal tree huggers for the hat trick to prevent new reservoirs or water storage, to "save" baitfish and weeds.
It's not because of hippies marching and protesting.
It's because the hippies all got jobs with suits and ties, and are the governmental version of an infinite-level HOA. bottom to top.
Just like the State Department.
Just like K-PhD education.
And so on.
When all you hire are leftard idiots, all your problems become activism-driven, instead of problem-solving in the real world.
The fact that in the neighborhoods that burned, 80+% of the victims are also Biden-Harris-Gabbin' Nuisance voters is just a happy serendipity of FAFO.
Moar of that, please.