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...oh for sure, the government has let things go to hell. Gotta pay for all those handouts somehow.... I'm just saying you are partly responsible for your own defense in high risk areas.
I grew up in Calabasas off Mulholland HWY. and my mom was still living there in 93 when wild fires went through there....right through our front yard in fact. Our house survived, many neighbors did not. The images in the news bring back some horrifying memories.
A few months later the 94 Earthquake hit.... it was an interesting time.
And all I hear about is how scary tornadoes are.
Seems like my chances are a little better.
Oh man... I'll take the ground sharing under my feet any day over tornados.
I'm weird, I actually get a kick out of earthquakes. The big ones are another story. The 94 Northridge quake was gnarly. It wasn't a roller, it was a thrust quake. Felt like a giant was picking up the whole house and slamming it down hyper quickly.... That was the ride of a lifetime.
Water rights are huge $$$$$. I’m wondering how the discussions will go after the smoke has cleared.
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This is sad and so devastating for so many people. I feel so bad for everyone with all these disasters happening. Mother nature can take it all if she wants it. I can't recover from her wrath after thinking we were doing ok before and don't know if we will ever. It becomes a domino effect and so many lives affected out of nowhere in an instant. I pray for everyone's safety and containment. Please end this nightmare.
James Woods talking about his 94 year old neighbor being left behind by the persons caregiver and just an hour after being saved the guys house burns down was a bit disturbing. I sometimes wonder if i should get someone for my 92 year old mom, but no one is going to care for her like family.
The other story i heard was of the elderly couple, who had been married many decades and had lived in the same house for almost as long. Their insurance provider had just recently canceled the fire coverage for their home. Burned to the ground.
So much to be angry about.
As someone who works in Insurance in Australia I don't see how the stories coming out of insurance cancelling fire coverage is true, unless there is a different way that policy's are handled in America an insurance policy is a contract, nominally it is for a 12 month period, if the policy/contract has come to its end the insurer may vary the policy terms but not whilst the policy is valid, I could be wrong but there is no way that would happen here.
Regarding the fires, again whilst I am on the other side of the world it appears that there was plenty of mismanagement leading up to this just like our fires from 2019/2020 which I fought for over 2 months, restricting access to areas, stopping fuel load reduction activities, not having enough assets to hand and lack of training plus it looks like there was the good ol government in the back ground playing funny buggers with "environmental flows" and letting water go out to sea in the name of "conservation policy's" has come back to bite.
Unfortunately common sense is no longer common but muh "Climate Change" caused it all bullshit is just that, bullshit, whilst disasters like this can happen it can be mitigated to a large degree with proper planning in place and using resources that are readily to hand not locked up under government bureaucracy.
Edit, link to a story from the Black Saturday fires, the only house to survive despite being fined by the council $50k for clearing his land................you would think that the local council would of learned a lesson but you would be wrong.
Black Saturday survivor fined for cutting down trees supports hazard reduction | Daily Mail Online
Caregiver leaving the 94 year old should be a prosecutable crime. Fucking lowlife....
Saw an interview on TV with James Woods (actor). His home was in the middle of all the fires and is probably lost. He was stating that the reservoirs were dry.
After watching our mayor get hammered with questions and she did nothing but deflect, I got a new nickame for her "Dumbass Karen Bass". Maybe the blue will wakeup now after seeing such mismanagment of these horrible blue politicians. 48hrs later they still do not have water in hot spots where some houses were saved as the fire hydrants are still not working. The mayor has no answers, just bullshit deflection.
And you hear them say in the press conference, "the water problem is now gone" as if they fixed things over night.
All of California is going to pay heavily for this. Proper management and proper allocatoin of funds could have minimized some the blow, but they continue to burn our tax money on bottomless pits.
1000%
Kamala Harris just said on live TV, this is "unpredictable"! Hahahahahahaha, what a joke our politicians are.
Failure to render aide is punishable.
My understanding is that State Farm, the insurer wanted to ramp up premiums to reflect the increased fire risk in area, for all the reasons that are becoming apparent, but California said they couldn't , so they withdrew cover. I am reading 1600 properties affected, but i am sure someone closer to it will have better info.
Right now, i am thinking of all those in Lahaina that seem to have been forgotten, and looking at this thinking exactly the same has happened.
The sad reality of it is, the responsibility lies with those who have absolutely no idea how to do their jobs.
People want the title of said jobs but, don’t do the work required of those titles.
That's the outcome of many little things.
Like in my state, near the coast, if you don't have a mortgage, you aren't required to have insurance. More people are rolling the dice because you can get wind insurance easy, but you have to add flood and it's very expensive.
The more people decide to gamble, the more it costs those who don't.
It's a snowball rolling down the hill.
saw this on Reddit, unbelievable
I saw that interview also. Or at least I saw an interview with Woods. I though I heard him say that first responders told the caregiver that they would be right back for the guy and to leave? But then they didn't come back by the time he was found?
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I just had a quick look at this and State Farm did not cancel the policy's they did not renew the policy's as they expired, big difference; most of the headlines that I have now seen are at best misleading to downright false. There was still an option if people chose to go through the so called Fair program but many may not have taken this up.
Below is a snip from a May 2023 article.
State Farm has stopped accepting homeowner insurance applications in California, citing the growing risk from catastrophes like wildfires and the rising cost to rebuild.
"State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market," the insurance giant said in a statement on Friday.
"It's necessary to take these actions now to improve the company's financial strength," the company added.
State Farm no longer accepts homeowner insurance applications in California : NPR
They just updated the structure loss/damage count to 6000.
Insurance companies wont issue new policies in places prone to fires because the fires are getting worse...
Insurance companies wont issue new policies in places prone to floods because the floods are getting worse...
It's almost like the insurance companies are reacting to the rapid changes our climate is experiencing and covering their asses.
As a SoCal native you think you're hardened to our fire seasons but the photos we've been getting from our friends around town where there is just nothing left of entire neighborhoods is incredibly numbing to look at.
You think these people are pissed off now ???
Wait until they find out, like the people in N.Carolina have, that there's no help coming.
Climate.
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These fires have been seasonal since I was a kid back there in the 60's and 70's.
Long before big al concocted the climate scam.
The fact that I have 3 friends and my Aunt that have lost houses is just unfathomable. Now a fire is burning into Agoura/Calabasas. My Wife has to help her assisted living building evacuate to downtown LA as that's the only place with any open rooms.
It's insane.
The amount of times over the last two days that my wife and I have said, "you've got to be fucking kidding me", in regards to finding out new fires have started, people we know that have lost houses, businesses we loved being burned down is uncountable.
If shit goes anymore sideways (at this point, I wanna say "how could it" but it seems you can't rule anything out with this one) and you need any help with anything let me know.
And sorry to hear about your friends and aunts houses. We went through this with the SD fires 20 odd years ago and seeing nature just eat the fuck out of your house is a brutal thing to experience.
What did they call the cause of the event in 1930-1940? (Dust bowl, I'll save you mouse clicks)
They didn't name anything because they knew Ma nature will do Ma nature things.
There sure were not enough cars and cows to change the climate. What did it?
Over farming? Didn't help, but the severe drought pretty much did it.
I went for a hike/run yesterday at Runyon Canyon Park, got home and showered to get ready to attend a film screening. As I was leaving my place an hour later I could see flames at the top of the park, 10 minutes later the entire hillside was on fire and became The Sunset Fire. I had definitely never seen anything like it up close.
Watched the news and just dont know what to say, beyond comprehension.
Severe drought, over grazing, and human arrogance caused the dust bowl. You'd think the giant fuck you mother nature gave us over that one for fucking up her balance the way we did would have been an learning moment for all of us.... yet, here we are... again.
Ken Burns did an amazing series on it; highly recommend watching it. That and his one on the American Buffalo, his one on Hemmingway, his one one Vietnam, his baseball one, the central park five, the prohibition, country music (insanely good one).... you know what, better yet, just watch all of them. Ken Burns is an American treasure.
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