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

[Drip Torch]

Power lines are a natural fire break (in any normal country). Foliage underneath is cut regularly (20m wide) so sparks from short circuits or other faults don't raze the entire gay community to the ground.

If, thats IF IF IF ROWs are maintained as they should on schedule. Most of the time, this isnt the case and each utility fuck offs most of the time.

 

[StudMccool]

Chinook refilling at the big water source inside those LA mountians, cant remember its name

 

[Dawdler]

Not to mention that wood ash turns very caustic in water. It's how people made lye for much of human history.

Wood ash or salt will ruin concrete.
You need to plow snow away before it melts and freezes, then it's fine

If, thats IF IF IF ROWs are maintained as they should on schedule. Most of the time, this isnt the case and each utility fuck offs most of the time.

It's a total cut-down every 2 years. Then again, commiefornia isn't normal state.
Save the trees, ... so everything burns down in one huge inferno.
I still don't understand how nobody realized they lived in a big tinder box and hobos were playing with matches. Even on talmundvision there's nothing about how do we prevent this from happening, just shock and awe.
This is gonna become one big 15 minute city for the super rich. They can afford to rebuild everything and this is just easier than sending the eviction notices.

People will be prevented to visit and dozers will come in next week and just plow everything clean (for sanitary reasons or some other nonsense). Homeowners will be charged for cleanup or have their property seized if they don't pay, similar to other FEMA tricks.

 

[Allakazam223]

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great visualization of how close the fire is to the 405 with one of the big retardant tankers in the frame to boot

Tons of natural chimneys there. Can't tell if those are homes along the left side platoue. Would personally be uncomfortable living nearly anywhere in photo due to rocks or flash flooding, let alone the fire risks.

Makes aerial FF only reasonable option, those hills would be incredibly dangerous to be on foot in. American wildfire FF used to be notorious for putting boots on unsafe ground, though. Many deaths caused by crews being trapped. Not sure if that has improved.

Not much can be done in interface fires that bad already, can't exactly easily punch 10m firebreak lines through neighbourhoods. At least with even a few km from houses crews can punch a firebreak fast enough.

I'd be packed up and ready to go if I lived anywhere nearby. Wouldn't care about waiting to be told, a strong south eastern wind could spread that miles into LA.

Damned tragedy, fire doesn't give a shit if you're rich or poor, you're flammable.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

I see the MD-11/DC-10's have come back from Australia.

They couldn’t save PandaHalo

 

[Drip Torch]

I see restrictions on hunting and fishing more with vegan activists in particular, which can sometimes overlap with environmentalism.

The vegans can scream all they want, Fish and Wildlife agencies aren't going too listen. Most F&W personel that I have met are right leaning, just like state forestry/fire fighting agencies.

What the vegans cry about online isnt going to change a thing.

 

[Fuck Bankers]

From this mornings press conference​

Karan Bass' opening remarks​

Spoiler: here

"We are hurting, Griefing"
"[we are] angry, and I am too"

"we have got to stay focused, until this time passes"​

"make no mistake, we will make a full accounting"
"when the fire is out, there will be time to evaluate"
"recovery effort"
"the fires intensified"
"0 tolerance for crime"
"If you are bold enough... to do looting of any type... you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law"
"I remember 1992 after the civil unrest, I remember 1994 and the earthqauake" - DEI and corruption made those really bad too

Fire Chef Crowley's remarks​

Spoiler

"As Mayor Bass has stated, She and I met yesterday on shared priorities... mitigate devastating wildfires"
"Focus on building the community"
"Palisade fires...significant flare up"
"increased containment 8% to 11%"
"with 3,712 personal"
"22,660 acres"
"Hurst fire... 799 acres 76% contained 2 structures damaged 305 personal"
"sunset fires... haulted 100% contained 42 arces"
"Another critical weather event [next week]"
"Mayor Bass Chef McDonald and I are in lock step together"

SBA disaster loan officer Julie Clowes​

Spoiler

"my heart is with you, my team and I live here"
"SBAs disaster loan program program are open, are fully activated"
"for homeowners, renters, businesses of all sizes, private non-profits"
"disaster homeloan program... repair and replace"
"$500,000 for real estate, $100,000 for other property" - I don't think that'll cover much
"Business loans... maximum $2 million"
"small business and non-profits... maximum $2 million"
"interest rates below 4%... in some cases 2.56% for homeowners"
"12 month deferment on interest and payment"
"SBA for Cali fires and Hurricane Helene or Milton"

 

[6 Years Ago]

Trump is going to actively go out of his way to make Gavin his bitch. He's already called for Newsom to resign and could certainly dangle a better deal at the feet of California voters if they were to recall Newsom again

If Trump can use his power to make the media say Gavin is an incompetent piece of shit then normies (and libtards in CA) will believe it and he'll be finished. They need to hear it from an "official" source to believe things are true even when they obviously are.

 

[JosephStalin]

Just saw a video where the head of the California Coastal Commission was saying anyone who lost their residence/building during the fire would be able to rebuild at the same size or 10% larger without going through them. Instead, they would just need to go through the local office that handles permits. Not sure if I believe him.

Also, can you imagine the mother of all clusterfucks coming when these permit offices start handling an ocean of people wanting to rebuild? From what little I know in such parts of CA, such as where I live, it takes some time to get the needed permits.

 

[Temu Glock Switch]

Username checks out.

Luv Smark posters. Simple as.

 

[Drip Torch]

People will be prevented to visit and dozers will come in next week and just plow everything clean (for sanitary reasons or some other nonsense). Homeowners will be charged for cleanup or have their property seized if they don't pay, similar to other FEMA tricks.

Someone has to clear away debris. Do you want that too be the responsibility on the landowner solely? Just leaving buildings that are on the verge of collapsing because da joos.? Or do you want this area to become another burnt out nigger infested Chicago but with a beach?

 

[StudMccool]

Just saw a video where the head of the California Coastal Commission was saying anyone who lost their residence/building during the fire would be able to rebuild at the same size or 10% larger without going through them. Instead, they would just need to go through the local office that handles permits. Not sure if I believe him.

Also, can you imagine the mother of all clusterfucks coming when these permit offices start handling an ocean of people wanting to rebuild? From what little I know in such parts of CA, such as where I live, it takes some time to get the needed permits.

Im so glad you saw that and are making this point. Id sooner belive that biden himself is going to rebuild all the houses PERSONALLY than the California Coastal Commission following through on ANY of that shit.

They will prevaricate and defer for YEARS then when people cant hardly take the lack of progress, they will claim the soil or some shit was irreparably damaged by the smoke and is now a "bio threat" and no building can safetly be constructed.

 

[Breadbassket]

Just saw a video where the head of the California Coastal Commission was saying anyone who lost their residence/building during the fire would be able to rebuild at the same size or 10% larger without going through them. Instead, they would just need to go through the local office that handles permits. Not sure if I believe him.

Also, can you imagine the mother of all clusterfucks coming when these permit offices start handling an ocean of people wanting to rebuild? From what little I know in such parts of CA, such as where I live, it takes some time to get the needed permits.

Sounds too good to be true.

 

[Dafuqisdis?]

If Trump can use his power to make the media say Gavin is an incompetent piece of shit then normies (and libtards in CA) will believe it and he'll be finished. They need to hear it from an "official" source to believe things are true even when they obviously are.

Actually Gavin's approval was in the low 40s last year so it doesn't take an act of god to convince California residents that he sucks.

But lefties are invested too much in their personal retarded conceptions of utopia for most of them to vote right long enough to right the ship

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

It can regenerate from roots and it's something you also have to apply herbicide to as well. It's a literal zombie tree. Also, they are good at keeping any other trees from growing because they grow to be tall

They absolutely will regenerate from the roots, and extremely quickly. We had the "Black Saturday" fires here in 2009, and there were photos of tree stumps that were still smoking, but also sprouting leaves.
For the eucalypts, this is a happy day, they were built to burn.

It's not the height that kills off the competition though, it's the oils in the leaf litter (similar to pine trees).

 

[StudMccool]

hey aviation nerds, what is that pipe hanging below that fire fighting chinook, does it piss out of there?

 

[clipartfan92]

None of that explains why these pumps wouldn't have generator backup

I live in a hurricane prone coastal area and all of our pumps to move flood waters have on site generators

There is a legit competency crisis going on. Richmond, the state capital of Virginia, was without water for most of the week due to neglect and sheer incompetence.
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These challenges led to flooding at the plant due to the inability to close valves that were pumping water into the basement.

In the event of a power outage, experts and regulators say there are multiple layers of backup protection that should be working and in place to keep the system running.

When a main Dominion Energy power source fails, like it did on Monday, the facility can then rely on another Dominion Energy backup source, a generator, and three backup batteries which have separate functions to temporarily power different assets within the plant, before resorting to manual procedures.

According to information provided in a Thursday briefing to the Virginia Department of Health's Drinking Water Director Dwayne Roadcap, two of Richmond's three backup batteries are currently out of service.

It's not yet clear if those two batteries were out of service before or after the storm hit on Monday.

And even if all those backup sources fail, Roadcap said it's his understanding that there's supposed to be a procedure for staff to manually close the valves to prevent flooding into the basement where equipment is stored.

But according to information shared during the briefing, he said staff were unaware that they needed to do that until after the flooding occurred on Monday. He said operators have now been informed of that process.

 

[Captain Chromosome]

Bruh. And to avoid a one-word answer, I'll say it again: BRUH.

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This is AI. In the off chance it isn't, sauce pls.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

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hey aviation nerds, what is that pipe hanging below that fire fighting chinook, does it piss out of there?

The hose vacuums up water.

 

[Breadbassket]

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hey aviation nerds, what is that pipe hanging below that fire fighting chinook, does it piss out of there?

Retractable snorkel. Coincidentally, the Los Angeles County Fire Department put a video out on how it works a couple years ago.