Live updates: Brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as Santa Ana winds blast Southern California - Live video at link

[harmacist]

Another thing nobody has mentioned is how they'll even begin clearing these miles upon miles of burned out houses. Where will the landfills be? Will CA's wacko environmentalists even allow them?

theyll allow whatever has to be done to get their lives back to normal. all their hippy dippy bullshit is performative.

 

[Althalus]

Zero chance much of this is rebuilt in 4 years. ZERO. This is well beyond Katrina-level damage dollar-wise and those people didn't have LA's zoning/permitting hellscape to deal with in their rebuilds. Hell it'll be a year before hardly any of them even see an insurance payout.

The flip side is that rebuilding L.A. would be way easier than post-Katrina NOLA, simply because it's above sea level and is a much wealthier city in a much wealthier state. Arguably there is also more of an incentive to rebuild simply because of the location/economy/land value/etc. In the case of NOLA, a ton of people simply left after Katrina and never returned, I doubt all the celebrities are going to abandon Malibu.

 

[Spaceman Spud]

Petrine crosses aren't Satanic, that's an Ameriprot misconception.

All those rainbow flags in June are just people celebrating the symbol of God's promise!

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Another thing nobody has mentioned is how they'll even begin clearing these miles upon miles of burned out houses. Where will the landfills be? Will CA's wacko environmentalists even allow them?

Landfills are all throughout the state they just don’t talk about them. If resident environmental types get mad, just ship it all to a third world country they don’t seem to care about that.

 

[There She Glows]

The San Gabriel Mountians are in danger from the fires. This is where The Hooker Telescope is. That is where Edwin Hubble of Hubble Space Telescope fame discovered Redshift. This would be a massive loss to humanity.

Smoke creeping up on Mt. Wilson Observatory. It almost got hit by the Bobcat fire in 2020 have to hope special precautions are being taken. genuinely an irreplaceable place.


https://www.youtube.com/live/Spo1lkghEY8?si=BHovQJl8BIYwQOXr link to livestream, can't embed for some reason. Fire has reached the Observatory but it looks like they are keeping it off the towers

 

[Fuck Bankers]

the religious retard larping in this thread is really great. can we all preach about god and morality on a site where we all gather to make fun of literal retards and drug addicts?

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

 

[Breadbassket]

The flip side is that rebuilding L.A. would be way easier than post-Katrina NOLA, simply because it's above sea level and is a much wealthier city in a much wealthier state. Arguably there is also more of an incentive to rebuild simply because of the location/economy/land value/etc. In the case of NOLA, a ton of people simply left after Katrina and never returned, I doubt all the celebrities are going to abandon Malibu.

One must wonder if LA will loosen up on their construction codes and permit process to speed up the rebuilding process.

 

[Archeops]

Per WatchDuty: Fixed wing aircraft are returning to bases due to the wind. Don’t drink the water, it may not be potable anymore.

Per me: Power is still out for most people near me and we are now hearing that it might not return until Monday at the soonest. Downed lines from the winds are compounding the problem.

I’m assuming this is for the Palisades area, correct? We haven’t received a water boil warning or water quality warning for my neck of the woods.

 

[Heed Not]

All those rainbow flags in June are just people celebrating the symbol of God's promise!

Fair, but Christianity never had a monopoly on rainbow symbolism the way it does on cross symbolism.

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

, I don’t know a single Califag

Thing is most of this is all online. If you did know any calis laughing at hurricane victims it’s likely some dipshit on Twitter. Most normal people are too busy being employed or tending to their own to even know what’s going on in the first place beyond their local news stations.

 

[Jaimas]

I've had the chance to sleep on it, and I think I figured out why this situation sticks in my craw so much.

It's the Chris-Chan situation, all over again.

Chris objectively did not deserve some of the shit that befell him. Shit like the Idea Guys, for example, is utterly impossible to view Chris being completely at fault for. But Chris is is such a giant asshole to people that even when you genuinely feel sympathetic towards him, you are inevitably drawn to the conclusion that he is truly beyond pity. You get a similar effect with other lolcows; Richard Jones is a very obvious example of where everyone tried to help him until it became patently obvious he neither wanted nor would accept help, and even people who wanted to help him eventually said "fuck it" and became his trolls.

So it goes with California. I can appreciate the fact that there are institutional roadblocks to any sort of proper reform of that fucking state, and that at least at a voter level, they multiple times voted in favor of fixing shit, before the same party that's ruled the state for over 40 years now used every form of bureaucracy to undermine it. But shit like Gavin Newsom surviving his recall election, no one doing anything when Newsom's admin dumped billions of gallons of water in February in preparation for a rainy season that never fucking came, and the fact that they allowed the most retarded arguments for stopping production of cheap geoengineering projects like sumps, and bolthole reservoirs does indeed give teeth to the argument that California is, in fact, retarded.

At the end of the day, we can blame decades of monoparty rule for a lot of this shit, but the fact that the bureaucratic red tape is now sufficient to balloon even the smallest project into a completely unfeasible burden should be a fucking warning sign to people. And people have been sounding the alarms on this for decades now, on both sides of the aisle. Everyone knew this shit was going to happen, except the progs in charge of the state. It's a complete failure on a fundamental level.

It's fucking depressing, to the point where it's hard to laugh at. Watching LA's mayor suffer a mental BSOD when she got confronted by reporters for going to Africa and axing 18 million from the Fire Department budget and asking how she responds to that or calls by her own constituents to step down are the kind of thing that adds a bit of levity to this miserable affair.

 

[Althalus]

One must wonder if LA will loosen up on their building codes and permit process to speed up the rebuilding process.

That is possible, considering the areas affected are full of famous and wealthy people who have more political pull. Plus, after the numerous fuckups mentioned in the thread that led to the fire getting so bad, both the city and state governments will want to create the appearance that they are enabling recovery and that everything is fine.

 

[TittlyWinks ;)]

This is a decent recap of the events so far, for those new to the thread.
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Gotta give it to Fox... they know how to (and are willing to) hire 'em. I mean goddamn. She may have 10lb of makeup on but I bet she doesn't even really need it.

 

[kim foxx]

looks like the winds are picking up again lol

 

[i440BX]

The flip side is that rebuilding L.A. would be way easier than post-Katrina NOLA, simply because it's above sea level and is a much wealthier city in a much wealthier state. Arguably there is also more of an incentive to rebuild simply because of the location/economy/land value/etc. In the case of NOLA, a ton of people simply left after Katrina and never returned, I doubt all the celebrities are going to abandon Malibu.

California will not be as wealthy in near future, thanks to the high taxes and prices, crime ridden places and bureaucracy. Business will find it easier to work in other states.
Unless they change their retarded politicians, but I heard California is somehow fortified against republican vote.

I feel both sad for the innocent people and Californian kiwis affected by this, and slightly excited to see the elites getting affected by their incompetence and cronyism. Also I hope the critters don't get extinct in this bushfire. Imagine being so retarded to use the water for some fish but not for saving a lot more animals from fire.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Fair, but Christianity never had a monopoly on rainbow symbolism the way it does on cross symbolism.

Maybe she just loves addition a weird amount.

 

[MG-34]

Came back to check on things. Ash everywhere, but the pajeet car dealers keep on smoking

I'm so glad I haven't needed to buy a new truck in the last 10 years. A pajeet dealership sounds like an awful experience. Do the cars come with a new vindaloo smell?

 

[Oeselian Chad]

If I was the president and China invaded California, I’d wait a couple months to try to recapture it.

The reason would be because after some CCP officers took forced organ transplants from Californians, it would be even easier to hate them, because they’d be part Californian

they would also have already executed most of the troons, fags, cucks and other undesireables, and have cleaned up the place.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

"Host of Insurance Hour Expert Carl Sussman"
"Personally Evacuated from my home as we speak"
"The carriers need to step up and do what they need to do"
"you want to get the claim filed sooner rather than later, even if you don't have 100% confirmation"
"the California fair plan association has a very specific script they have to go through"
"Do you know the cause of the fire" - is a question
"this might be the final straw of fire coverage insurance"

"State farms dropped 75% of it's policies in the Palicades alone"
"Well I think that was a bit of luck for consumers"

This guy just said that people losing coverage was a good thing.

 

[tehpope]

Zero chance much of this is rebuilt in 4 years. ZERO. This is well beyond Katrina-level damage dollar-wise and those people didn't have LA's zoning/permitting hellscape to deal with in their rebuilds. Hell it'll be a year before hardly any of them even see an insurance payout.

Unless a red wave sweeps over SoCal and Commiefornia, very extremely unlikely, these burnt out neighborhoods will remain this way for decades.