Los Angeles Fires...

[huja]

Looters should be shot and their bodies left where they drop.

[paddylast]

Looters should be shot and their bodies left where they drop.

They're a symptom of a sick society.

[SirNotAppearing]

Looters should be shot and their bodies left where they drop.

I think I'd want someone to remove their bodies from my house.

[MABinPengChau]

Jon Stewart gets it right, again. Too long, didn't watch: This neighborhood grew up over the course of a century but has always been a pretty bad idea (fire-safety-wise). All of LA, not a great idea (just as with literally all the cities in the deserts...water is one of those human-essential things...).

And, of course, making all the aid political is just...typical USA but still pretty deplorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2LFwMKbr5c


Look, I know it's sad when an era ends and all but between the fires, earthquakes, beach erosion, and landslides, maybe don't rebuild. Yes, I get that it's an utter legal nightmare to basically revoke all the building rights but municipalities change zoning laws all the time without compensating affected landowners. Which is why your local zoning meetings are some of the scariest political meetings you can attend, I kid you not (my mother oversaw a lot of the code and zoning updates in her paralegal job, she's got some stories...).

I notice my brother's old neighborhood in Camarillo, which had fires in December, is on the extreme watch list again as the winds pick up tonight. His daughter lives with a good friend who will make sure they evacuate if it ever comes to that (she can hang out at the beach on the East Coast for a bit until it starts raining again...).

[Andy SNK]

The stampede has resulted in some homeowners and property managers jacking up prices on short-term rentals, including dozens that appear to violate a California law against increasing prices by more than 10% during a state of emergency, according to a review of Zillow listings and interviews with real estate agents, housing advocates and home-seekers..

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...res-rcna187421

[hullexile]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...res-rcna187421

Looting in another form.

[MABinPengChau]

Looting in another form.

More like raping, hope they burn in hell.

[MABinPengChau]

So small brush fire in Ventura (Oxnard/Camarillo area) from an auto fire (going to bet stolen and torched), burned around 56 acres but came under control. Power cut as a precaution...everywhere, niece's community college (first day of 2nd semester) shut down.

UCLA moved classes online, probably all local colleges going to move to that model for a few weeks.

Niece not answering my brother's texts, she does this sometimes because needs some space (that relationship got a bit involved, it's good for her to spread her wings, only right NOW would be nice to make sure she is OK).

Any normal small fire (and, yeah, torching stolen cars after you have pulled all the saleable parts comes under "normal small fire" in the US) can get out of control in view of Santa Ana winds, everyone on edge. As a result, the response for something like that is overkill, got under control fast.

Here is the less famous but crazy damaging fire in the Ventura County area last month. Got pretty close to where my niece is living, houses burned down in her town. Less famous, less attention, still an enormous crazy fire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Fire_(2024)

[MABinPengChau]

It's destroyed in a mudslide caused by the water used to fight the fires...yeah, you can't win.

It's not a great place to build, despite the fabulous views:
https://us.yahoo.com/news/home-survi...225246346.html