Don't know, don't care. Covid came out of Wuhan China. Some people believe it started in a wet market, some people believe it came from the Wuhan covid research lab that was doing gain of function work on the virus.
I know how I'd bet on the source.
Don't know, don't care. Covid came out of Wuhan China. Some people believe it started in a wet market, some people believe it came from the Wuhan covid research lab that was doing gain of function work on the virus.And people refusing to wear masks played no part in it?
Don't know, don't care. Covid came out of Wuhan China. Some people believe it started in a wet market, some people believe it came from the Wuhan covid research lab that was doing gain of function work on the virus.
I know how I'd bet on the source.
Fucking nonsense commentary. More money doesn't contain 100 mph winds.No, but a sufficiently funded and adequately equipped fire department as well as equivalent federal agencies could have potentially saved more lives and more property.
No money doesn't contain 100 mph winds. However cutting back and thinning chaparral through either controlled burns or with equipment does cost money. From my viewpoint in Southern CA, the CA government and the Federal government at all level's hasn't done a great job of thinning the fuel for this fires. It is slowly getting better but we will continue to see these types of fires until the government gets serious about removing fuel before the fires.Fucking nonsense commentary. More money doesn't contain 100 mph winds.
Also LAFD actually got about $50M more funding than a year ago; quit propagating talking points pushed by MAGAts.
What federal agencies exist to fight fires in cities?
When you consider what the chaparral actually is...and how much of it there is...cutting it back and thinning it out is a nearly impossible task.No money doesn't contain 100 mph winds. However cutting back and thinning chaparral through either controlled burns or with equipment does cost money. From my viewpoint in Southern CA, the CA government and the Federal government at all level's hasn't done a great job of thinning the fuel for this fires. It is slowly getting better but we will continue to see these types of fires until the government gets serious about removing fuel before the fires.
Uh noTime to start mixing asbestos into the stucco
When you consider what the chaparral actually is...and how much of it there is...cutting it back and thinning it out is a nearly impossible task.
I need goats for my side lot. Damn, blackberries and scotch broom. I hate using herbicides, but it takes over otherwise.Then you need to do controlled burns. I thin stuff all the time around my property which would be considered chaparral. Some places in CA have had good success with using goats to think back chaparral. It either needs to be thinned out or you going to have more of these types of fires which cost billions of dollar.
I need goats for my side lot. Damn, blackberries and scotch broom. I hate using herbicides, but it takes over otherwise.
I need goats for my side lot. Damn, blackberries and scotch broom. I hate using herbicides, but it takes over otherwise.
I need goats for my side lot. Damn, blackberries and scotch broom. I hate using herbicides, but it takes over otherwise.
And people refusing to wear masks played no part in it?
As much as I dislike Woods, this nothing to cheer about.
So woods has backpedaled on his house was burnt down
James Woods' house survived after he thought L.A. fires destroyed it
James Woods says 'a miracle has happened': His Malibu-area home is 'still standing' after he thought the L.A. wildfires destroyed it.ew.com
Wtf
I could not believe he could be more of a d-bag. But again don’t underestimate the stupidity of the maga clan
He along with tens of thousand of others thought their houses had burned to the ground. He managed to get into the area and found it wasn't burned down and this pisses you off?
How does that make him a d-bag? We should be happy that some peoples (regardless of who they are) houses survived this hell storm.
Lord some people never cease to amaze me at what assholes people can be. I for one am Happy for those that didn't loose everything /anything. But then again I don't hate people just because they have different beliefs than I.
Can not and will not are two different things.Just an observation from Australia another fire prone country. In an area known for savage fires, cutting back on the FD seems a bit stupid and a recipe for disaster. Saw a news report that a large number of emergency equipment (trucks), are sitting in a boneyard waiting for maintenance, with not enough staff to maintain the fleet.
Amazing that the world's biggest economy cannot fund it's essential services.
We can actually - we just choose to waste it on military contractors who don't complete work on time or on budget (and many other things).Just an observation from Australia another fire prone country. In an area known for savage fires, cutting back on the FD seems a bit stupid and a recipe for disaster. Saw a news report that a large number of emergency equipment (trucks), are sitting in a boneyard waiting for maintenance, with not enough staff to maintain the fleet.
Amazing that the world's biggest economy cannot fund it's essential services.
Something in the cities budget is forcing these kind of stupid decisions. This is one of the biggest cities in the states, not a small town where understandably budgets are tighter.Can not and will not are two different things.
It's unprecedented, yes. And it's climate change. Both can be true.Y'all can flame about the politics and Trump, GOP or anyone else attempting to "politicize" the disaster. You can talk about building materials and building standards.
But this was unprecedented. We have Santa Ana winds every year. But 100 mph winds blowing out of the San Gabriels? Nobody would've imagined a firestorm consuming so much of nicely-pruned suburban neighborhoods and urban landscape.
What concerns me most at the moment is the total lack of rainfall over the last entire year, or since rainfall just "ended" last year. We're headed toward the spring and summer here. Last time I went up to Idyllwild to buy a hamburger dinner there -- last spring I think it was -- the temperature was 98F. Will there be any sort of wind blowing this summer?
People tell me my condo development on this hillside is not likely to be consumed in a firestorm. I don't know. But we're looking at serious stress in the home insurance market. I'm already paying twice what I paid the previous year.
I thought about this over the last few years -- climate change, whether I wanted to migrate to cooler wetter locations, and so forth. Not so easy for me now.
My family arrived here from central Illinois in 1958. Nobody could've imagined a huge area of northwestern LA burning to cinders in a few days. Back then, we thought we were living in paradise. Now? It does not seem so . . .
One thing I like to dream about is the weather in 1969 and early 1970. It began raining in mid-November. It continued raining, on and off and frequently. In January, our city -- the ground -- was just soaked, and the rain drooled from the sky without end.
Now, they talk about So-Cal getting more "monsoonal" weather -- when there's an El Nino. But this year, we're now in a La Nina. We're in a drought.
The Elected One talking about "the worthless fish" or smelt, and the nonsense and nonexistent "water restoration" initiative. It's an irritant added to sobering disaster news.It's unprecedented, yes. And it's climate change. Both can be true.
A combination of human caused climate change, next to zero fuels management in the wildland urban interface, worse than normal winds, and mega-drought.
Anyone who says otherwise is shilling and/or has their head so far in the sand they're taking it up the *ss.