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All Biden had to do was not open the border and the D's win. It was an own-goal. Better luck next time!
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Biden didn't do shit. His Prog machine did.Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Mike...we won't hear from DSL for awhile here...he's scouring all of my posts for me quoting Trump...
...but he doesn't suffer from TDS...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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In more serious news already saying the Palisades fire may end up being the costliest fire in US history.Comment
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Not sure why people build so close to a tinderbox like that...same for people who build where hurricanes and floods are common...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Well, yeah. A lot of those homes are in the $20-$30 million range. Even beyond that area, though, it's gonna be really bad. Last reports were that the fire is still 0% contained plus there are two others that going pretty good too. What a mess.Comment
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I wasn't talking about YOU, illiterate clod. I referenced Trump's promise to cut everyone's car insurance in HALF and you said I have TDS because I dared to bring that up. We don't talk about that around here I guess. We don't bring up broken promises or pie-in-the-sky bullshit that comes out of his month. EVER. Not allowed.Originally posted by THE_WIZARD_ View PostComment
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Like I said...the things Trump says are hyperbolic of course....sometimes funny...but your take on them are actually pretty funny as well. It really makes you realize just how awful of a candidate Kamala was...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Not to sound all green but nature keeps reminding us that the Los Angeles Valley was not the best place to build a densely packed megapolis of 10M+ people. Water has to be imported from hundreds of miles away, it gets very little rainfall, and every winter brings 70+ mph offshore winds that sparks wildfires. Not to mention it's on a very active faultline and the coastal mountains are more mud than rock.Comment
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Nailed it.Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Of course there are things Cali could be doing to mitigate the risks...but they do not thanks to the idiot fucktards who push retarded environmental policies...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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they still have a few days of gale force winds.
california spends a lot of money
wonder how much on fire prevention instead of providng booze and drugs to the homelss along with free medical, free housing and free education to illegal immigrants
have to fly into LAX next which is directly south of santa monica--have a kid lives in rodondo beach
hope its controlled soonComment
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On Gavin Newsom’s first full day in office, Jan. 8, 2019, the newly elected governor stood before the cameras, clad in jeans and sneakers and surrounded by emergency responders, and declared war on wildfires.
“Everybody has had enough,” the governor said, announcing he’d signed a sweeping executive order overhauling the state’s approach to wildfire prevention. Climate change was sparking fires more frequent, ferocious, and far-reaching than ever before, Newsom said, and confronting them would have to become a year-round effort.
The state’s response, Newsom added, “fundamentally has to change.”
But two-and-a-half years later, as California approaches what could be the worst wildfire season on record, it does so with little evidence of the year-round attention Newsom promised.
An investigation from CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention. The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority projects” carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.
Overall, California’s response has faltered under Newsom. After an initial jump during his first year in office, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show Cal Fire’s fuel reduction output dropped by half in 2020, to levels below Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office. At the same time, Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.Newsom has claimed that 35 "priority projects" carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.
In 2020, 4.3 million acres burned, the most in California’s recorded history. That was more than double the previous record, set in 2018, when the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, killing 85 people.
This year, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show that through Memorial Day, the annual number of acres worked remained low, despite a fire season that threatens to be even more dangerous than last year. Most of the state is in “extreme drought” or “exceptional drought,” which means there is an abundance of dry vegetation ready to catch fire. A record heatwave has swept the state already this year.
The data show Cal Fire treated 64,000 acres in 2019, but only 32,000 acres in 2020 and 24,000 acres through Memorial Day this year. The federal government and private landowners also chip in, but the totals remain far below what experts say is required to effectively adapt to the dangers of climate change.
“We need to be doing a million acres a year, for a long time,” said Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment. “That's the scale where you start to achieve … strategic goals, like fewer structures lost.”
Now, Newsom is trying to play catch-up. With the state enjoying an unexpected surplus, Newsom proposed $1.2 billion in “wildfire resiliency” funding in the upcoming budget. Experts say the increase in prevention spending could help the state get closer to a less-dangerous wildfire season over time. But they also expressed concern over whether the state will sustain that commitment for years to come. “We are in a deep hole,” Wara said, “and it is going to take us many years of sustained effort to get out.”
In interviews, fire survivors said they felt betrayed by government officials, who seem more concerned with making a splash than saving homes and businesses from incineration.
“It’s a deception,” said Mitch Mackenzie, co-owner of Carol Shelton Wines in Santa Rosa, who lost his home in the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Last year’s wine country fires ruined one-third of the winery’s grape harvest, and the flames nearly overran his new home in Sonoma County. He says Newsom’s embellishments are a frustrating — but typical — example of how California politicians handle wildfires.
Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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A different fire on the other side of LA, the Eaton Fire, is just north of Pasadena and currently over 100,000 acres, 0% contained. It's quintupled in size in just the past couple hours I think.Comment
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FWIW...in 2022 the LAFD launched a historic DEI initiative...and of course the Fire Chief is a lesbian...maybe they should have worried more about fighting fires and not worrying about DEI...they could be more prepared for a fire like this...Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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