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

[sadrefrigerator]

My whole life is here, my family, my friends, my home, my job, and you expect us to just move and go somewhere heckin BASED instead? Somewhere we have no roots, know nobody, have no home, no job, no history? So you can call us Cali transplant parasites when we let slip that we left for a better life?

Yes this is what many people have done throughout history.

 

[RowboatGirlyman]

Anyways, for those who don't know about the winds and why they're such a disaster, have a Wikipedia link.

TL;DR they're a bunch of very hot, very fast, and very dry winds that have been compressed down as they move seawards from the high desert regions. Or in other words they're currently acting like how a turbocharger does for a car engine.

To add a bit to that - in the absence of high winds a large fire will become self containing once it gets hot/large enough to generate it's own weather (look up pyro cumulonimbus, the images are impressively scary). Then you have a firestorm generating inward winds which ensure that everything in it gets burnt up, but also prevent it from spreading any further. It's still a massive disaster, but self limiting. This is why in Hiroshima the fire didn't spread much beyond the initial blast radius.

All this goes out the window if you have very strong winds fanning the flames onto fresh fuel - that's how you get large swathes cut through like in Australian brush fires.

 

[quaawaa]

It's not just any gated community - Hidden Hills is where people like Madonna and the Kardashians live. Or at least they have lived there at points, celebrities seem to constantly buy and sell $50 million homes

The streamer Shroud also lives there.

 

[Eventide]

Whole area just got a mandatory evacuation order

Hidden Hills? Hopefully the Kardashian's private team of firefighters can save them!

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

It's not just any gated community - Hidden Hills is where people like Madonna and the Kardashians live. Or at least they have lived there at points, celebrities seem to constantly buy and sell $50 million homes

The single cul-de-sac Agenda-Free Steve is focusing on with maybe a dozen properties could probably be insured for $1 billion.

 

[Tiki Bar Man 2]

The Lost Frontier Water Diversion in the Growth and Destruction of Owens Valley Agriculture
Water and Power: The Conflict Over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley
Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future

That's just LA, the Central Valley is its own clusterfuck, as well as some others like the Hetch Hetchy reservoir and the destruction of the valley in Yosemite so faggots in SF can wash down their AIDS pills with clean water.

wow good shit! Always love learning how bad things really are

 

[StudMccool]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGBMsyh4pKg

WATCH THIS SHIT IF YOU CAN ITS ABOUT AS DRAMATIC AS IT GETS, THEY HAVE A HOTSHOT TEAM THERE TRYING TO SAVE THE TENNIS COURT AND LOOSING

 

[Glowie]

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"50 fire starts have been ended"
"three current fires"
"water shortage?... Utilities turned off electricity so lines wouldn't fall and start fires"
"sending all possible resources... 400 firefighers... 30 helicopters and planes... 8 C130s"
"500 wildfire ground clearing members"
"Canada"
"winds are likely to continue until next week"
"FEMA has been working with the state"
loses thought while talking about firefighters are heros
"God made man then he made a few firefighters, to run into the flames"
"you fire away"


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"this is an urgent matter"
"what we have seen is apocalyptic"
"extremely dynamic, very much in play, and to some degree unpredictable, because we are literally waiting to see which way the wind... blows"
"[firefighters] working 12 hour even longer shifts"
"this will have an impact for months and years to come"
"many insurance companies have canceled insurance for a lot of the families who have been effected"
"Many of the families will not have the resources"
Kamala explains what a firefighter is

"no, turn it back to me [Biden]"
"the a look, I've talked to a lot of [politicians in the region]"
"chief why don't you fire away"

Is that senile fuck reading off a pre written script? He's flopping through papers as he rambles on.

 

[gobbles]

It's like a nuke went off. Holy fucking shit.

Genuinely curious if these guys are, like, super good people or something.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

The Truckee River is a river in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles (195 km) long.[3][6] The Truckee is the sole outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truckee_River

No Tahoe water drains to the Delta.

I said “Tahoe” or “Tahoe Basin,” so this is how wrong I was, and how pedantic we’re being

 

[Thiletonomics]

Have the fires reached where all the twitch streamers live yet?
I hope so.

Hasan said that he was "prepared" to evacuate, but I'm not sure if he actually did so or not:

 

[Enoch Emery]

Fires reaching the backyards

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Whoever created this fire overlay for the news stations that shows the freeways/roads needs a fucking raise.

That shit is kino AND informative!

 

[merrybrandybuck]

Tranny's rotpocket surgery cancelled due to LA fires and he loses his parent's insurance in February

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/trannies-posting-their-ls-online.149396/post-20276171

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Wouldn't say it's an L
The universe is giving this coomer retard and his dick one last chance

 

[Oeselian Chad]

Curfew tf is dat? Me n Unc finna get rich bitch. Free copper wire.

Not just copper, there is also probably a whole lot of silver, gold and precious gems from jewelry around the palisades area. Could actually make off like a bandit, literally

 

[NoReturn]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGBMsyh4pKg

WATCH THIS SHIT IF YOU CAN ITS ABOUT AS DRAMATIC AS IT GETS, THEY HAVE A HOTSHOT TEAM THERE TRYING TO SAVE THE TENNIS COURT AND LOOSING

Not the tennis court!

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Genuinely curious if these guys are, like, super good people or something.

Not how life works, amigo. The world we live in, one is probably a pedophile and the other is just some guy.

 

[CircuSphere]

That's reported deaths of identified remains. There's likely thousands of people dead.

It's not 1910 San Fran, there was no proceeding earthquake, 33 people died in the 2020 fires. We have mass communications and we are supposed to have modern public services. I'm sure firefighters and cops who actually belong there have or will die and they should be honored... I'm sure the infirm are in genuine danger but we are up to 5 now and the last guy who went down was a retiree trying to put out his house with a garden hose, I'm pretty sure that ticks a few of the boxes I listed.

Utterly retarded thing to say. These fires can move incredibly fast with the wind, especially when the wind is gusting up to 80-100mph or higher. There was also a complete standstill of traffic and got so bad that entire roads were full of abandoned cars because people literally ran away by foot from the fucking fire.

Again I'm sure some people will loose their lives in the line of duty or helping others. Again I'm sure it's a very dangerous situation for the old and infirm, I'm not laughing at them (though I am minimizing their importance to society admittedly). This isn't a hyper dense favela fire or a club fire though, it's a blaze in the hills that has spread into suburban sprawl over the course of days, which has happened several times now in recent memory. Evac orders have been up for days, the fires follow the path of said wind. People are ignoring evac orders, taking multiple trips, looting, staying back to stave off looting, staying back to perform futile amateur fire fighting activities, staying back to live stream.... I am sure far more people will loose their lives engaging in reckless behaviors (that's called natural selection) or as an indirect consequence of the reckless behavior of their neighbors and mismanagement by the authorities (that is genuinely sad).... but that was the point I was after. It's impossible to escape the feeling that this is all about property even when looking at casualties. Casualties which will be exacerbated by mismanagement, unpreparedness and misplaced priorities... and this applies to the mayor, the governor, the fire dept, the police dept, the citizenry and sadly even the dead.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Idk man, the Dune series? Frank Herbert started as a California ecologist

I don’t even know about actual books written on it, it’s just California’s history. No other state was so heavily engineered with massive projects to make it habitable and even into a breadbasket capable of feeding the country. Then it fell into corruption and ruin

We need a reconquista.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

i honestly didn't realize what a great representation of LA grand theft auto online really was. i am actually recognizing spots in the city thanks to my admittedly overspent time in that game. neat dedication to detail from the devs, and a horrifying personalization of the fires for me.

 

[Breadbassket]

California Man Helps 83-Year-Old Father-in-Law Using Walker Flee Wildfire on Foot​

"We were completely stuck in traffic and the fire jumped about probably 15 feet from the car," the man said​

A California man had to help his 83-year-old father-in-law using a walker escape from the Palisades wildfire on foot after the flames began approaching the traffic they were stuck in.

In video shared with CBS Mornings of their escape, Aaron Samson guided his father-in-law from the vehicle they had been in to the sidewalk, where they proceeded to walk to safety.

"This is crazy. There's a fire right outside our car," Samson says in the video as the camera pans toward the trees. Flames and smoke can be seen rising from just yards away from a street full of vehicles.

As the father-in-law, who has Parkinson's disease, begins heading one way, Samson turns back to him and guides him in the right direction.

"Come on Dad, turn around. We got this, we got this," Samson says. "Come on, turn around. Keep on walking down the hill." Car horns can be heard honking and emergency lights can be seen flashing in the distance.

Samson and his father-in-law made it out safely from the fires. They had originally caught a ride from a neighbor after deciding to evacuate, but became stuck in traffic.

"We were completely stuck in traffic and the fire jumped about probably 15 feet from the car on the right. And at that point just being stuck there surrounded by fire, the policemen began running up the street [yelling] 'Get out of the car! Get out of the car!'" Samson told CBS Mornings.

As of Thursday morning, more than 100,000 people have been displaced and at least five have been killed by the wildfires fueled by strong winds in Los Angeles.

About 2,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed in the blaze, amounting to more than $50 billion in estimated damages, according to AccuWeather.

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