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

[polakrobak99]

I thought that house in the background looked out of place for Los Angeles and sure enough it's actually a render
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It's by "thedrizzyviper" which seems suspiciously like an obscure fetish account, as it mostly posts renders of high end sports cars covered in dirt or damaged in some way
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The Internet is so fucking over, man. Sad!

 

[blue gopher snakes]

“He said ‘Mom leave me’ and no mom can leave their kid,” she told the outlet fighting through tears.

“I’ve got a broken arm, I couldn’t lift him, I couldn’t move him,” added.

This is the saddest thing I have read so far. I can’t imagine. That poor man. His poor mother. I hope he was long dead from smoke inhalation before the fire ever reached his body.

 

[Glowie]

Came across a Los Angeles wildfire air asset compilation.

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I wonder if this spreads to other counties and states.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Who knows how many priceless manuscripts, books, masterpieces of art and so on that has been burned. Not to mention how many people's pets, wildlife, exotic pets, sanctuaries etc that has been fucking died a horrific death outside of the normal people there just trying to survive. As much as I hate california I do not take any joy in what has happened.

There was lots of wildlife in the region, even in the urbanized parts-there were mountain lions, for example. All gone.

before you default to whatever your preferred schadenfreude position is

You have no clue. Imagine you have family who moved to LA who were normal and nice folks and then you watched them all get sucked into the narcissistic, vain and selfish culture that is LA. There is a reason I moved to the other side of the US and that's the primary one.

All these celebrities have no idea you exist and if they did they could care less. Whenever a tragedy befalls Americans anywhere else. like in East Palestine, the Carolinas, Florida or NYC all of these LA faggots have a smug laugh and tell each other how glad they are to live in such an enlightened and beautiful place, and it sucks to be you.

If they were good people they wouldn't live around sodomites, predators, rapists, whores, child pornographers, pimps, scammers and thieves. You can find kinder and more compassionate people on a New York City subway platform in Bed Stuy than in LA. I'm not exaggerating because I have seen both sides of each city and LA is literally hell on earth.

So, go ahead and keep posting your stories of poor dead blind celebs in Malibu on their 17 acre spread who would call the cops to haul you away in a NYC minute if you wandered too close. It doesn't matter. They all get what they deserve. God has judged them.

 

[Sargon_poster]

At this very moment, Avatar, California burns.

 

[big pauper]

More than one wife man it starts with polygamy it turns into pedophilia and before you know it your praying in a funny direction obeying a strict dress code and having questionable relationships with livestock

those damn welsh farmers need to be stopped

 

[Anonitolia]

please don't tell me this is what I think it is

Spoiler: "what did Anonitolia mean by this"

very inexperienced with weather still, but I've only seen this wind pattern on this site when following burgeoning hurricanes. Please for the love of god don't tell me that's some kind of cyclone.

 

[blue gopher snakes]

I wonder if this spreads to other counties and states.

States?! Even if the fires burned their way through the San Gabriel Mountains, all it would find to eat on the other side is the Mojave Desert. This isn’t a movie.

 

[General Disarray]

Welp, I think this video about sums up the situation.

K. Flay: Not in California

The birds all died and the trees caught fire
And the government, it called us crazy
We built a big world, then we watched it all burn
'Cause the television made us lazy
It didn't seem true when the power lines blew
Yeah, the heroin, it made us hazy
I looked up at the clouds as I was freaking out
God save me
We're not in California anymore
We're not in California anymore
Traded all our sunshine in for a storm
Don't say I didn't warn you
We're not in California anymore

 

[potato in mah painus]

This is devastating to watch. As an Australian, I known that even if the US asked for firefighters, we wouldn't be able to provide any with the fires happening in our own country.

That being said, the fires shouldn't have gotten this bad with proper fire management. We backburn during winter to stop fires. You have to do this when you plant eucalyptus trees. They drop their leaves in the summer and if you don't burn them off this happens.

I've seen lots of talk about water and budget cuts but nobody has brought this up.

The environmentalist movement outlawed this in California, corruption siphoned away the water, and Newsom vetoed a unanimous bill for firefighter expansion.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

States?! Even if the fires burned their way through the San Gabriel Mountains, all it would find to eat on the other side is the Mojave Desert. This isn’t a movie.

SoCal is a desert next to other deserts. That's why water management is literally the most important thing for the LA municipality but they had no water pressure, broken fire hydrants but worse, their reservoirs were empty because the whore hired for $750k/year was too busy blowing whoever got her that sinecure; the bitch barely speaks English.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

did anyone clarify that the dyke LAFD chief didn't get fired?

‘On Friday, January 10th, Fire Chief Kristin Crowley of the Los Angeles City Fire Department met with Mayor Karen Bass,’ the statement said. ‘Their foremost priorities continue to be fighting the current wildfires and safeguarding Angelenos.

‘It is important to note that the Fire Chief was not dismissed and is in full command of the LAFD.’

Their meeting came after Crowley lashed out against the Mayor's cuts to her department, in an interview with a local Fox TV station around 12pm Friday.

'My message is the fire department needs to be properly funded,' the Chief said. 'It's not.'

edit: I know I'm late. I'm asking for a link to someone else's post about the news

 

[big pauper]

The Internet is so fucking over, man. Sad!

30 years ago retards did the same shit. they had a geocities page with a bunch of furry inflation fanart and they maybe had an irc channel. when i was a kid there were dozens of badly made websites that just collected airplane and car photos and most of them were tagged incorrectly or stolen. the only thing that changed is the "social media" paradigm that has crammed the entire internet into one giant auditorium so they can maximize surveilance. it also makes it easier to propagandize to, forums require parachute accounts to manipulate people's opinions, reddit was designed from the ground up to allow the administrators to just control what's visible so they can do it all from an admin control panel

if you're trying to navigate the internet like its 2012 you're gonna have a bad time just like trying to navigate the internet like its 1999 in 2012 was a recipe for a bad time

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

This is devastating to watch. As an Australian, I known that even if the US asked for firefighters, we wouldn't be able to provide any with the fires happening in our own country.

That being said, the fires shouldn't have gotten this bad with proper fire management. We backburn during winter to stop fires. You have to do this when you plant eucalyptus trees. They drop their leaves in the summer and if you don't burn them off this happens.

I've seen lots of talk about water and budget cuts but nobody has brought this up.

Due to the local greens filing endless lawsuits, the turnaround time on controlled burns in California is measured in years.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Fuck Scientology. Why don't we have a major active thread on these people I will never understand

They’ve unironically forced the IRS to parlay with them by spamming lawsuits at them to rob them of their budgets for like 5 years in a row.

 

[Archeops]

It's morning here in SoCal and it's time for another fire status update from Watch Duty.

• Palisades Fire: 11% contained
• Eaton Fire: 15% contained
• Kenneth Fire: 50% contained with forward progress stopped
• Hurst Fire: 76% contained
• Creek Fire: 80% contained
• Lidia Fire: 100% contained
• Archer Fire: Inactive
• Sunset Fire: Inactive

I was honestly a bit worried about the Palisades Fire's northeastern push into Encino and Tarzana (and still am to a certain degree, they need to set up containment there ASAP), if it gets into the San Fernando Valley proper we're fucked and this bird will have to fly the coop.

 

[Anonitolia]

please don't tell me this is what I think it is
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Spoiler: "what did Anonitolia mean by this"

very inexperienced with weather still, but I've only seen this wind pattern on this site when following burgeoning hurricanes. Please for the love of god don't tell me that's some kind of cyclone.

oh, also worth noting

Unrelated: assuming I've got the right area, this is what the winds are looking like right about now.
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Southeastish?

in comparison to last night's winds, these are pretty great for the city (ASSUMING IT IS NOT ACTUALLY FORMING A CYCLONE). Wind's being sucked off the coast and away from the city right now, going southwest. Might be good?

 

[Strangolapreti]

very inexperienced with weather still, but I've only seen this wind pattern on this site when following burgeoning hurricanes. Please for the love of god don't tell me that's some kind of cyclone.

Fun fact; when the Vaia storm arrived in northern Italy, back during october 2018, a wildfire was spreading in the northern part of the Veneto region.
Should this be a repeat of the same events in large scale, then perhaps californians shouldn't really worry about the flames, but the rain...

 

[Feline Supremacist]

idk if this was posted but

LA going to get spicy now that the gangs and police are similarly equipped.

 

[nigel p poppycock]

Matthew 5:45: That you may be children of your Father in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Natural disasters occur because the world is broken and not operating the way God created it, thanks to Adam and Eve biting into Pandora's box. God's judgment is about consequences--if you're going to go against his precepts (which honestly are common sense and necessary for society to function well) then you reap that reward. The judgment in LA and California is that they are getting what they voted for and support. If good people continue to do nothing then evil will abound, and unfortunately those good people get caught up in the whirlwind.

It's been said over and over--the actual disaster are the people in charge, their insane policies and corruption, and the continued inability to own any of it. I don't see how LA recovers from this anytime soon. The uber rich aren't going to rebuild there, not when it's going to take months for basic services to get back online because California has to continue the bureaucratic nonsense even in the wake of death and destruction. They'll go live in one of their many homes elsewhere. The entertainment industry there is done for--it was already limping along. As usual it's going to be the normal citizen that suffers from this. That's where my sympathies lie.

I hate dooming, and maybe I'm wrong and LA will bounce back. But living in a disaster prone area myself, the two keys to recovery are strong, competent leadership and compassionate neighbors who are eager to help. LA has none of the former and little of the latter. I do hope I'm wrong, though. If there was a time for the SoCal populace to band together and get rid of the rot, it's now.