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[Feline Supremacist]

That’s one of the things that makes me unable to relate with Californians. Across the whole northeast, you don’t act overly familiar with people because it comes off as disrespectful, or like so retardedly naive that you’d be a liability if allowed to form attachments. Dead weight, maybe? Like “my tribe does not want to feed you and you seem too stupid to feed yourself”?

People just mind their own business. We don't want to hear about someone else's drama, we got plenty of our own. But sure, if you need some help with your bags granny we'll help.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The dead haven't even been burried yet, grifters know no line

We don't even have a proper death count yet. But hey, gotta make that money off dead people, amirite?

 

[Michael Wade]

I hope it burns down the offices of Sony santa monica and then turns on the rest of the western dev studios. I hope no-one is harmed, but that the gaming industry literally goes up in flames.

I'm trying to find good studios but it's a losing battle. I want the square enix office to come out ok but that's about it.

Everybody else is gay as shit or EA

 

[StudMccool]

evacuation point from air

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Free shit is being given away in Los Angeles! I repeat! Free shit is being given away in Los Angeles!

[beaten by seconds!]

 

[Not Really Here]

The grifting off dead people has commenced among the Vtuber lolicon niggers!

25 minutes, filled with ads.

Good.

The more people that learn about Californians getting what they deserve, the better.

 

[AnOminous]

Really encapsulated how I feel. Except the goats. Get them somewhere safe first. mvp

Get them to the Goat Tower!

 

[SpergioLeonne]

People just mind their own business. We don't want to hear about someone else's drama, we got plenty of our own. But sure, if you need some help with your bags granny we'll help.

Right. It’s not rude, it’s just propriety. People start as neutral, neither good nor bad when you don’t know them. Californians want to be “friends” with everyone in the most topical, meaningless sense, and it feels like it’s just a thing about the way they see themselves. They want to feel like they’re an awesome person or something, and prompt eachother in some retarded social contract to keep that going. It’s hyper insecure

But I don’t want to watch someone struggling with some shit.

Getting cars unstuck from snow is a great example. Don’t even roll your window down to say thanks, if all you needed was a push to be on your way, or a jump or whatever, that’s fine and good. But we don’t need to hug about it and it doesn’t make anyone a hero.

 

[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

Texas shipping illegal immigrants to Chicago absolutely broke the back of the Democratic party because of their reliance on the oppression pyramid where illegals rank higher than native born black people.

Imagine being a black Chicagoian and waiting years for affordable housing and some guy who wandered across the boarder 3 weeks ago is getting thousand per month in housing assistance.

Best thing was when the illegals were shipped to the outskirts of the city because of the DNC. Then brought right back after. They literally sit in front of the 7/11 all day by my job, and sell drugs, or whatever the fuck else they do. During the night they're throwing bottles at people and being shit heads. My co-worker has a sister as a cop and they're told to just let the fucks go when they're pulled over, or detained for being useless faggots.

 

[Bebepine]

Kyle Hanson of Bitwit (a very popular Techtuber who previously dealt with a divorce of a cheating wife) lost his entire house in the fire. He made a vlog going through his neighborhood and exploring the remains of his house.

The lesson is clear. Never ever choose to live in LA. 0 benefits to be had when your house is landfill.

 

[AnOminous]

The rural South, full of the very people these Cali bug chasers despise, are even more helpful and caring than someone on the EC. They will see you are in need, stop and help find your way if you're lost, fix your car, jump start a dead battery or get you out if you're stuck in the mud. I'd rather be around rural Texans/Okies than these LA cunts any day, any time.

I've broken down twice in Tennessee, and despite the fact I and the people I was traveling with were obviously freaks and weirdoes, some random guy stopped both times and obviously thought we were idiots but helped us anyway.

One specific guy, when it was a blown out tire, not only took off work to drive us to an auto shop to get a replacement tire, but then drove us back too and waited until I replaced it.

Southern hospitality is no joke.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

Texas shipping illegal immigrants to Chicago absolutely broke the back of the Democratic party because of their reliance on the oppression pyramid where illegals rank higher than native born black people.

Imagine being a black Chicagoian and waiting years for affordable housing and some guy who wandered across the boarder 3 weeks ago is getting thousand per month in housing assistance.

$1000 a month and a stay at a 5 star hotel.

granted, some illegals were sleeping at police stations so it wasn't all good but the ones who got it made got it fucking made.

 

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LA water chief knew about empty reservoir, broken hydrants months before fires: Report​

State to probe why Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline, empty when firestorm exploded​

A important reservoir had been taken offline for over a year for relatively minor repairs normally handled in-house.

I feel like California and South Africa gov'ts share the same scripts

This is them trying to set up the chief to take the fall. Turns out a Black Mayor outranks a White Lesbian Fire Chief in the oppression stack.

To claiming that the cutting of the fire department budget didn't hurt the fight against it.

I can't stress this enough: The left believes complex systems are static unless directly acted upon, and upon being acted upon, they react non-complexly, only in the direct ways the left act upon them. Second order, knock on effects literally cannot happen in the leftist worldview.

They pulled the "lower fire department budget" lever, they didn't TOUCH the "lower fire department service level" lever.
They refused to touch the "perform forestry management" lever, they didn't touch the "increase flammable drybrush" lever!
They jurryrigged all kinds of levers about insurance, but somehow the "insurance companies fucking leave" lever got pulled and they have no idea how it happened!

It is a mental failing you can see every single time you interact with them if you know to look for it. Beyond this particular mental damage, they also believe: "Levers (progress) only ever go one way" and "Only the left is allowed to touch the levers." In other words, don't expect them to let you undo any of this shit going forward, because they literally cannot grasp the idea of things being LESS progressive, or their shitty ideas having bad side effects. Instead, they'll try and target the side effects themselves -- "we can't raise the budget for the fire department, so instead we'll just make it illegal for them to call in sick, replace them with felons and wetbacks, and demand the rest of the state and feds help with the LA Fires going forward."

 

[McKennai]

LA might as well become a Warzone in 2025

 

[Earthly Treasures]

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How many paper straws is that worth?

 

[Breadbassket]

How a ‘warrior’ brain surgeon saved his Malibu street from wildfires and looters​

Chester Griffiths finished performing brain surgery, climbed into his car and drove across Los Angeles to save his beachfront Malibu home from the wildfires raging around the city.

It was a scenario the 62-year-old had been preparing for years: he had done the training, sourced the fire hoses, and briefed his son and next-door neighbour about the course of action.

Now was the time to put it into practice.

What followed was a daring mission that saw the three men confront the worst inferno in the city’s history to successfully protect six homes in their picturesque cul-de-sac, while houses around them crumbled into a mess of ash and rubble.

As the Pacific Palisades fire worsened, swallowing up thousands of homes and leaving trails of smouldering ruins across thousands of acres, the men refused to back down.

Even as 80mph hurricane-level winds brought sheets of embers the size of footballs raining down, they continued to fight.

“At one point I started packing up my car and then I just decided I’m just not gonna let my house burn down, no matter what”, Clayton Colbert, Dr Griffiths’s neighbour, told The Telegraph.

Armed with N95 face masks, fire hoses and spades, the trio managed to keep the inferno at bay for four days and five nights.

“Without a doubt, if we weren’t here, none of our houses would be. There’s not even a 1 per cent chance”, Mr Colbert said on Friday as he poked his hose up against the smouldering remains of a neighbour’s home to stop it spreading.

The men’s diciest moment came on Wednesday night, when the fire barrelled towards them from the west, engulfing two of their neighbours’ wooden homes and sending them up in flames within 20 minutes.

First went the house two doors along from Dr Griffiths on Topanga Beach Drive, as the inferno made eucalyptus trees explode. Then the next one went up “like a Roman candle”.

“Everything was coming this way. The fire was coming this way, the smoke, the embers in the air, the wind was unbelievable”, he said.

“Softball-sized pieces on fire were landing around us, it was almost apocalyptic. It’s like, you see these things coming at you, and they land on the ground. Thank God, the majority will not go on the house, but the ones that do, you put out immediately. But if no one is here to do that, then they eventually burn the house down.

“We didn’t know when it was gonna end. That was probably the scariest thing.”

The trio responded by jumping on nearby roofs, spraying the flames and using dirt and sand to put out any fires on the ground. They got blown over several times, buckling under the power of the 80mph gusts.

In terrifying footage, Dr Griffiths can be heard breathing heavily while looking through the window at the deep, orange blaze roaring just metres away.

“We need a water drop,” he can be heard saying. A nearby fire crew came to help them fight the blaze, and Dr Griffiths begged the captain for a water drop

“He said, ‘They’re all grounded’. I said, ‘What about a plane, fixed wing?’ He goes, ‘Everybody’s grounded,’” Dr Griffiths recalled.
“I went back upstairs. I said, ‘We just got to do it ourselves.’”

With the help of a team of firemen, hoses and a water cannon, the group was able to put the fire out and stop it from coming down towards the other homes.

The father of two insists he wasn’t scared.

“I’m a surgeon,” Dr Griffiths said, his voice raspy from days of inhaling thick smoke which almost tastes tangy from the scent of burnt plastic.

“You train and you prepare, and then when you’re in the thick of it, you rely on your training and your preparedness.

“Our exit strategy was paddle boards out into the ocean. We knew that if it really came to s---... we could just take them out. There was no time to be scared.”

His 24-year-old student son, also called Chester Griffiths, added: “This has all been, honestly, under the leadership of my dad.
“He’s been preparing for this for so long. He’s a champion, he has a warrior mentality.”

Mr Colbert hasn’t slept in days. Speaking on Friday, he admits he doesn’t know what day it is. He does know he was meant to have kidney surgery on Jan 10, which he has just discovered is today.

Soot, ash and smoke have stained his skin in every cavity and crevice, but he insists he is as clean as possible, having just had his fifteenth shower since the fires began.

For the first 10 hours, Mr Colbert was entirely alone, the fire swooping towards him from the east, engulfing nearby beloved neighbourhood institutions such as The Reel Inn, a fish shack.

Then he saw a notice on his phone telling him to evacuate.

“It said ‘Get out, grab your pets, your loved ones, and leave now’,” he said. But he stayed put.

Luckily, his 93-year-old father, who lives downstairs in Mr Colbert’s home of 45 years, had been at a medical appointment and couldn’t get back.

At some point during the daring mission, Mr Colbert’s hair caught fire, but he is not entirely displeased with the outcome.

“I look like I have a full head of hair now, don’t I? It’s great. It’s all ash,” he jokes.

‘All this, and people are trying to steal too’​

“Every bone in my body hurts,” he adds, limping across the sand in front of the ocean-front homes. He has never had a problem with his knee, but now it is strapped up in a brace.

His slower mobility was a challenge when he was forced to chase after looters who had come to raid the remaining homes.
It was Thursday evening when Mr Colbert saw two men walking down the hill.

“I started screaming at them, and then they ran. Then I went down to my car, and I turned on my car and the lights, and I set my alarm off so they know that we’re here,” he said.

“On top of all that, there’s these people trying to steal from you.”

On Friday afternoon, the trio were still working relentlessly to put out fires in the nearby homes, craning over walls to shoot water at the source, clouds of smoke radiating off, stinging eyeballs.

A few doors down from them is what has been described as the last standing house in Malibu.

The survival of the $9 million property, which belongs to David Steiner, a retired waste management tycoon originally from Texas, had been put down to its fire-resistant materials.

But Mr Colbert said he and the Griffithses had been keeping an eye on it, and doused it in water when the porch caught fire.

Dr Griffiths bought his property in 2005 and the family moved in in 2009. They tried to fireproof it at the time, building sprinklers in the roof and using cement tiles instead of wood.

Dr Griffiths, who is also a doctor to the LA Kings hockey team, said if one thing can come from the devastating tragedy, he wants people to get to know their neighbours.

“We were only able to do this because we’re a tight-knit community,” he said.

“This whole thing is a f---ing tragedy, beyond apocalyptic proportions. I’m so sad. I’m very sad for everyone that is so impacted, their families, their lives, their livelihoods, their history, all going... it’s cataclysmic for those people... I mean, I don’t know what to say.

“I’m happy that it turned out OK for us, but it may not have happened. I made a video on the first night of our home, recording memories in each room,” he added.

Neighbour’s precious memories of late son saved​

Kathy Eldon, who runs Creative Visions Foundation, a non-profit enterprise, was among the handful of neighbours whose homes were saved by the three men.

When she evacuated, she didn’t have time to pick up the journals written by her late son, Dan Eldon, a British photojournalist who was killed in Somalia in 1993, and she feared they would be lost forever.

Ms Eldon said she felt “survivor’s guilt” because her home is still standing, but through her foundation, she is determined to “turn all the horror into something really good”.

For the others, what has taken place hasn’t quite sunk in yet.

“When I’ve got time I think I’ll be emotional,” Mr Colbert said.

For the rest of the weekend, Dr Griffiths will be “on duty” – wearing his fireman’s braces and protecting his and his neighbours’ homes.

On Monday, he will return to his day job as a brain surgeon.

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[Manimal House]

You know, I'm starting to wonder if the reason federal aid coming so quickly to LA while NC is left to rot might be because some of the people that lost their house have the ability to hire assassins.

Like honestly view this, you really think SHE would survive this hell storm?

Good lord, now I'm starting to think the WEF have a point. Something needs to be done about worthless eaters.

 

[Trout and Tears]

I hope the LA Chargers stadium burns down and they'll move the team.back to San Diego

 

[Trout and Tears]

The grifting off dead people has commenced among the Vtuber lolicon niggers!

25 minutes, filled with ads.

Revdesu is a retard nigger

 

[LillWeeb]

There going to use these fires to try to propel Newsom as a brave leader for the 2028 election. Calling it now.