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ALSO MAYOR SPEAKING RIGHT NOW
 
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Justsomecicada said:
What’s the best and worst case scenario at this point?
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Best case scenario: The Santa Ana winds die down earlier than expected and the Kenneth response is early enough to suppress it. The Palisades Fire gets stopped at the inlet south of Pepperdine University and fails to cross north into Encino and Calabasas. Eaton is similarly quelled and fails to breach the Verdugo canyon (river), with it being contained on the eastern side, burning out somewhat naturally in the mountains north of Sierra Madre (I pray it hasn't been completely destroyed yet. It's a beautiful town.)

Worst case scenario: Winds meet and exceed expectations, Kenneth response isn't enough. Palisades fire continues to burn east, torching Malibu and the Pepperdine campus. On the north side, it manages to cross through and over Topanga Canyon, barrelling north downhill, eventually merging with the Kenneth Fire (as it's burning S/SE). Thousand Oaks and the area would be razed like the Palisades. Eaton torches every town in the foothills from Burbank to Monrovia.

Worst WORST case scenario: fire tornadoes
 
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kim foxx said:
insurance companies are essentially banks but they are not federally regulated at all, unlike banks. so where are customer premiums being invested into? who knows!! just buy the dip
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Something a lot of people don't realize is the insurance companies they interface with aren't the only people insuring them. Those insurance companies are themselves insured by reinsurance companies, vast and enormous supplies of money that exist to reinsure the insurance companies themselves in these mass casualty events.

This is the kind of shit that bankrupts even those corporations, most of which you have never even heard of. If that happens, this could mean absolute financial devastation, even with the insurance companies themselves doing everything imaginable to pay only a fraction of what they owe.
 
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Mr. Manchester said:
The best case scenario is that some how (though some miracle) people who own one single family home are compensated and foreign/non-citizen/investment firms get fucked over hard. There's pretty much 0% chance of this happening but a man can dream every now and then. I at least hope that's what's taken into consideration when Trump does whatever the hell he has to do to help clean up this mess.
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It's California. They'll earmark the money to go to black people and lesbian troons first, and then it will all get stolen through corruption anyways.
 
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CharlesBarkley said:
"We will give you federal funds if you refuse sanctuary to migrants and make massive deportation efforts." - California surrendering to that would be the funniest thing on earth.
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I genuinely think trump is gearing up to do just that and part of why he's being so quick to blame Gavin is equally because it is Gavins fault and because he's trying to avoid the framing that California is simply entitled to those funds
 
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The Stranger said:
We'll rebuild a better LA"
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aka itll be filled with more coloreds and the city will burn down again soon
AnOminous said:
Something a lot of people don't realize is the insurance companies they interface with aren't the only people insuring them. Those insurance companies are themselves insured by reinsurance companies, vast and enormous supplies of money that exist to reinsure the insurance companies themselves in these mass casualty events.

This is the kind of shit that bankrupts even those corporations, most of which you have never even heard of. If that happens, this could mean absolute financial devastation, even with the insurance companies themselves doing everything imaginable to pay only a fraction of what they owe.
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sounds like insurance is just a scam to get whats basically a second tax out of people for absolutely no benefit
The Stranger said:
Mayor just said FEMA is covering 100% of the wildfire damage (:_(
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ask the hurricane victims how that one goes.
 
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Lookie-lou said:
CH-53K King Stallion is a baby by helicopter standards and there are perhaps 20 produced in existence, and any chopper that's not been around for decades and made by the hundreds makes me nervous for heavy risky payload stuff, Sea Stallion is a proven chopper though. Mi-26's are old and proven performers in rough conditions; but they are almost all overseas. I wonder if a single flying one is in North America? Either way this will be work mostly done by fixed wing firefighting.
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Not enough Mi-26s, and the air frames are getting old. Most work that I have been a part of is with UH-60's with Bambi Buckets. Bell 407's with a smaller bucket is very common. But that is the heli's limitation, carrying capacity. Because fuel weight has to be traded with water weight.
 
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