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[NIGGO KILLA]

MSN is filled with faggot ass journalists that hate our guts but the fire map they have puts it into perspective how massive this fire reaches

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

The mayor said it again. They are shitting their pants aren't they. I wonder what half a BLM riot would do right now.

if BLM set fire to the city in a peaceful protest would anyone even be able to tell?

 

[Throwaway Email Enjoyer]

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Just gonna leave this here. I was going to say to the people talking about homes being lost, just take the nigger approach when they loot. "Insuramce will cover the corporations." Guess they only want to cover corporations now, and not the normal Joe. My Lord, perfect storm here.

Wait can they just do it while a fire is raging in your vicinity? What the fuck?

 

[stares at error messages]

Look out for melted cars next to completely unaffected trees and shrubbery.

 

[Breadbassket]

Just gonna leave this here. I was going to say to the people talking about homes being lost, just take the nigger approach when they loot. "Insuramce will cover the corporations." Guess they only want to cover corporations now, and not the normal Joe. My Lord, perfect storm here.

Sadly this isn't a very surprising development.

 

[eDove]

MSN is filled with faggot ass journalists that hate our guts but the fire map they have puts it into perspective how massive this fire reaches



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Please let Bakersfield be next.

 

[Can of Spam]

Top of the hour. All fires still 0% contained.

https://www.youtube.com/live/59VF9WASKDU?si=7aFZVgJF4I4Hw7gF
Presser starting.

The chief fire faggot:
>W..what was great... if there was a positive thing from yesterday is we were preparing for a wind event for multiple days in advance of what happened last night. We were prepared for a wind event as well as a possible brush fire.

You fuckers have this thing ZERO percent contained, water hydrants not working, your backup aerial solution fucked because of the wind; and yet you still try to spin this as some kind of win. This is not any kind of a win, and the smiling faggot should have been beaten on the spot.

 

[30+GameOvers]

ACCORDING TO FOX NEWS 5 LOOTERS HAVE NOW BEEN ARRESTED

Don't give me hope, nothing ever happens.

-Be California
-Suffer a multi decades drought.
-Do not build multiple desalinization plants (Last one built in 2015), in fact, make it more difficult.
-Do not make fire lines, prescribed burns or even cut dry brush
-Let illegal immigrants build camps and set fires in dry brush lands
-Tell the rest of the US that they're idiots and you're the most advanced state
-Spend money instead for woke projects and random bullshit
-Be surprised that people cheer on as LA burns to the ground.

I'm more surprised there are still people left feeling sorry for Californians more than anything else. This fire is just nature taking it's toll, literally.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

MSN is filled with faggot ass journalists that hate our guts but the fire map they have puts it into perspective how massive this fire reaches



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To be clear that’s the area under extreme threat, most of that is not currently on fire.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

I feel like this will be a shocking revelation to most of them. Everyone in America who isn't Texan thinks they are pretty silly, blowhards, and wish they would shut up about how great Texas is if they have to deal with them for extended periods of time. But nobody actually  hates Texans.

This really isnt true about Californians though. There isn't just an undercurrent of dislike. It really does come off as legit inter tribal Hatred. Many Americans don't even think of Californians as fellow countrymen. They view them as a hostile "other" that is the enemy.

In many respects this is due to the outsized cultural influence of Hollywood, combined by the massive economic and political power of the largest State in the country by population and GDP. It just cannot be avoided that what happens in California will have effects as far afield as West Virginia. But when the California Congressional delegation votes to change Carbon Emission regulations federally at the behest of Urban Liberals in San Francisco and LA, causing you to lose your mining job, you start to hate. If you are someone in southeast Ohio who bitched on Facebook on why you need to wear a mask in a bar while standing and not while sitting and then turbo banned by moderators in Silicon Valley, you start to hate.

It's going to be interesting to see what the ramifications of this will be politically and culturally, because as we can see in this thread the undercurrent of Hate isn't below the surface anymore. It will require some significant introspection by everyone in the country. But will this introspection be possible, especially with Trump about to be President?

If Trump wasn't in office the introspection still wouldn't happen. Both sides hate. If Kamala would've won, I be the hatred would be even greater. If you've ever been a mid-westerner or southerner around a Californian you'll know what I mean. They do act like you're stupid, beneath contempt.
I do agree that people in the country need to come together. But "fly-overs" would like to have their voices heard as well.

 

[StudMccool]

Those trucks are parked at a staging area. Their crews are forward doing what they can. Not every truck is used in the way you seem to think it is, at an actual fire scene. They aren't fighting the bank fire. They are just using the bank parking lot. No water is being put on the bank. Also the right most "Fire Truck" is an Ambulance. Which is a good tip off that it is a staging area. The Operators stay with the truck. Everyone else goes forward to help.

YOU WERE WRONG, THEY GAVE UP AND LEFT WAS NOT STAGING AREA

 

[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

if BLM set fire to the city in a peaceful protest would anyone even be able to tell?

Not like they'd be held accountable anyway.

 

[soulgains]

You can take Lyle though. He was always the weakest member of the cast.

I don't want the Douchebag to die, but then again I watched Sanity Not Included so Im probably biased.

 

[Mister Fister]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcW2SUuAq3I&ab_channel=JamesHeadbangerfield

Fire Tornados are the most metal thing i've heard all day.

 

[Haramburger]

39K viewers right now? Asmongold pulls better numbers on Marvel Rivals. Bleak.

Kek, look at those numbers. Fuck news networks, get you a cup mountain builder that really covers the news:

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[AnOminous]

How the fuck do you even steal a fire hydrant, let alone hundreds?

You, like, steal it. Just when nobody's looking, or even if anyone is, you just fucking STEAL IT.

Do you understand junkies? They will steal ANYTHING.

 

[not william stenchever]

Petrol huffing abos have no right to an opinion.

Dynastia is the exception that proves the rule.

 

[Breadbassket]

California’s Perfect Storm: Historical Devastating Fires and the State’s Insurance Crisis​

As wildfires tear through Southern California burning down entire neighborhoods, homeowners are reporting that insurance companies recently cancelled their fire insurance.

California’s perfect storm is a mishmash of destructive water policy, environmental policy, and a political insurance crisis.

The Southern California wildfires are devastating because of heavy winds, lack of water, and not enough forest management. As California Congressman Tom McClintock has long said, “Excess timber comes out of the forest in only two ways – it is either carried out or it burns out.”

But how did this happen, even after the devastating 2018 fires in Paradise CA, which killed 85 people and destroyed the entire town?

In 2021 the Globe reported:

The June 2021 report which exposed that Gov. Gavin Newsom misled the public about his wildfire prevention efforts by 690%, should have obligated applicable state agencies to act immediately.

The fact remains that California’s forests are still a lethal tinderbox as wildfire prevention efforts have not been ramped up to mitigate the now annual wildfire threat to homes, businesses and entire communities. Instead, 2021 is one of the worse fire seasons ever in state history, with wildfires still burning.

The joint CapRadio and NPR investigation unveiled in June 2021, Governor Newsom was found to have overstated the number of areas treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns by 690%, the Globe reported. Governor Newsom claimed that, due to his executive order, 35 of his priority projects had treated over 90,000 acres with wildfire prevention treatments. However, data from the state only showed 11,399 acres treated.

“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,” CapRadio and NPR reported, explaining that the governor even “disinvested in wildfire prevention.”

“At the same time, Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget,” CapRadio reported.

Newsom’s executive order on day one as governor in 2019 blamed the state’s wildfires on climate change and paid particular attention to “equity” — focusing on areas with high “poverty levels, residents with disabilities, language barriers, residents over 65 or under five years of age, and households without a car.” (Executive Order below)


Officially, the projects totaled about 90,000 acres. That’s well short of the amount of forestland experts say needs treatment in California, but it would have substantially increased Cal Fire’s prevention output compared to past years.

In early 2020, Newsom declared mission accomplished.

“The projects collectively have treated 90,000 acres,” states a January 2020 press release from the governor’s office. “Work included removal of hazardous dead trees, vegetation clearing, creation of fuel breaks and community defensible spaces, and creation of ingress and egress corridors.”

But the data analyzed by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show that Cal Fire treated a small fraction of that amount, 11,399 acres, or about 13% of the amount cited by Newsom.

Big hat, no cattle.

The Insurance Crisis

California’s insurance crisis is pushing Californians whose homeowners insurance has been cancelled to the California FAIR Plan, which is writing the highest-risk policies in California, but it is woefully underfunded, with only a few billion in assets and several hundred billion in liabilities, former state Senator Ted Gaines reported for the Globe.

“California is and has been a lower-cost state for insurance but that did not accurately reflect the risk insurers faced, as the devastating wildfires of 2017 and 2020 proved,” Gaines said. “Those fires wiped out decades of insurer California profits and shed critical light on what rate adequacy really looks like. The low prices were an artifact of Prop. 103, which is acting as a price control, which always leads to shortages. It is proving a barrier to its stated goal of ensuring insurance is available to all Californians.”

The real responsibility for California’s high insurance premiums lies in state politicians’ and the governor’s deluded “progressive” policy decisions and bad laws. Most insurers say because of California’s high cost to rebuild, they can’t keep premiums artificially low any longer.

What are the high costs to rebuild?

• The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): As Ed Ring reported for the Globe, over 50+ years, “CEQA has acquired layers of legislative updates and precedent setting court rulings, warping it into a beast that denies clarity to developers and derails projects. When projects do make it through the CEQA gauntlet, the price of passage adds punitive costs in time and money.”
• Project labor agreements are one of the biggest obstacles to political collaboration between construction unions and groups representing business interests, Ed Ring explained. A PLA is “a pre-hire collective bargaining agreement with one or more labor organizations that establishes the terms and conditions of employment for a specific construction project.”
• federal, state, regional, and local agencies permitting, overlapping and conflicting regulations, and the agencies all have the power to halt building projects, allow a lawsuit, or rule change, require an entire new set of designs, and force and individual or builder to resubmit plans to every agency and start all over again (Ed Ring, summarized).

These reasons as well as incoherent water restrictions, preposterous “clean air” requirements, mandatory electricity requirements, mandatory solar requirements, mandatory interior sprinkler systems and the like. These state mandated regulations in home and commercial building have driven the cost of construction to unimaginable levels.

California’s water crisis

Add to all of this a lack of water in the southern part of the state. Fire fighters reported that there was not enough water pressure in some neighborhoods to fight the fires.

California’s water crisis is created by politicians and state government which allows the unelected, appointed and permanent bureaucrats at the State Water Resources Control Board to fulfill state water policy so politicians’ fingerprints aren’t on it. And, politicians and officials who adhere to radical environmental policies, have been killing off California agriculture lands by denying water, sending 80% of California’s water to the ocean in unimpaired flows for “environmental” purposes, resulting in entire Central Valley towns without water, farms drying up, and threats of rationing to urban water users.

And Gov. Newsom and Democrats have been slow-rolling the already voter approved Sites Reservoir and Temperance Flats Reservoir for water storage – water storage that would greatly help the southern part of the state.

California’s Perfect Storm will not end well. Homeowners will be shattered financially and emotionally.

It’s as if Governor Gavin Newsom and the state’s Democrats are trying to destroy the state – no one could be this incompetent otherwise.

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[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

Sadly this isn't a very surprising development.

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makes sense. if you live in a area that constantly gets fires then insurance companies would be insane to try to insure anything but a fire proof house. ive been expecting a mass exodus of insurance companies no longer covering trailers in tornado alley or average house on the gulf coast. i cant see how without ungodly expensive premiums they can afford to cover those houses.

 

[Rootless Cosmopolitan]

Oh and for those curious, here are a couple areas from the big fires.
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I've gone out to some of the spots a couple times. It really does feel genuinely cursed, there's absolutely no sound of any animal or insect for miles in these spots. Some still have the dirt charred black in an almost perfect circle.

Sorry for shitting up the thread with unrelated history, fires are extremely important here so it's interesting to me to compare the fuck ups and how similar they end up. Here's hoping you don't have our disaster, I think it was ranked #4 for the worst in us history? But it may have been knocked down by a lot since I last checked like.... 10 years ago.

Burn zones are often beautiful and revitalized nature areas full of life, including rare fungal bloom events and lasting clearance of pests like bore beetles.