Not Really Here
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A lawyer for an insurance company sent a letter, therefore SoCalEd is involved?
Okay skitzo.
Live updates: Brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as Santa Ana winds blast Southern California - Live video at link
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Okay skitzo.
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They were negligent. They were told to bury their power lines and they drug their feet. That is how they were involved.
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Skitzo brain thinks this matters for some reason, when the entire State is a tinderbox.
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cant call it bullshit, insurance can't make money in california. these nonrenewals weren't unforseen either they've been happening for 2 years since the last big fire. In typical california fashion its residents are retards with no future time preference.
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Is the fire still on? I want to make roast marshmallows and share spooky campfire stories with kiwibros and pretend to be an American. Is that still a thing? Or am I few decades late to the party?
Feels bad, man.
Feels bad, man.
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Record winds, plus old power lines on old poles. What could possibly go wrong, while inside a tinderbox?
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The actual original source of the fires is irrelevant, because they were always a constant. The bum fires are everywhere, and all the time, in those areas of California.
I was at there a few years ago, and I saw the plumes of black, sooty bum fires as I was driving from LAX out to the Thousand Oaks area.
The bums are constantly setting fires in their bum shantytowns as they burn the insulation off scavenged wires so they can sell the copper for scrap, or the cooking fires they set to fry hot dogs in hubcaps set over burning tires.
The bum fires are a constant, and they always will be for as long as California coddles bums like they're counterculture heroes, and not disgusting, dangerous bums.
The only difference this time was the atmospheric conditions being just right for a mass conflagration to be set off by the ubiquitous bum fires that have become "a day ending in Y" thing in California.
I was at there a few years ago, and I saw the plumes of black, sooty bum fires as I was driving from LAX out to the Thousand Oaks area.
The bums are constantly setting fires in their bum shantytowns as they burn the insulation off scavenged wires so they can sell the copper for scrap, or the cooking fires they set to fry hot dogs in hubcaps set over burning tires.
The bum fires are a constant, and they always will be for as long as California coddles bums like they're counterculture heroes, and not disgusting, dangerous bums.
The only difference this time was the atmospheric conditions being just right for a mass conflagration to be set off by the ubiquitous bum fires that have become "a day ending in Y" thing in California.
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SpergioLeonne
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Yeah over here in New England, they have this thing where if something falls on a line, the line trips a breaker and is shut off.
Surely the second flashiest city in the country is better equipped than a frozen opioid wasteland?
Quit jerkin my merkin
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This is the brush firefighter equivalent of the Navy Seal copypasta
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Californians have no idea how badly they're mismanaged, and will blame everyone but the people responsible.
These niggers think they're the only place in the world with trees, and electricity.
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939 of the heros are convicted felons still serving their sentences. How many thousands are from fellow communist regimes?
I think the proportion of them who are actually full time employees of the fire department is going to be pathetically low, and this guy keeps pretending it’s something anyone could do if they felt like it
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Maybe they shouldn't commit crimes?
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Just need to go over this real fast, and by real fast I mean multiple paragraphs of slightly unhinged ranting, but take of it what you will.
While firefighting generally doesn't get a lot of people, the problem this generation isn't due to the influences of culture, but instead of budget. Firehouses don't have as many people as they need not because there's not enough recruits, but because of the fucking State.
First and foremost, basically every station that I know of that did their youth program, Fire Explorers, was near or at full capacity despite being underfunded, and you have people surrendering their free time to actively train these kids. I've gone to my region's Calfire training grounds and have shaken hands with quite a few gentlemen who've been around for a long goddamn while. They want to hire these kids ASAP, but simply put they're already straining for resources not only to keep on the people they already have, but in even affording the basics. They can't even afford to hire DEI even if they want to, thus why most of the women are in admin roles that are, predictably, separately budgeted from the actual fucking firefighting.
Their rigs are kept together on the road with duck tape and prayers, even the new stuff simply because they don't get appropriately budgeted for maintenance, their equipment is too old and gives fucking cancer and they can't switch because the State won't let them get alternatives, new stations are opened but are barely staffed because the State will spend god knows how much money opening new buildings (and surely totally not getting any kickbacks) but won't pay for more people as appropriate and instead will just move people around for "better coverage". A ton of guys are slowly moving away from California and get actively poached by other States since they're the best at doing the most with the least.
It's never a staffing problem, it's a management problem. That management is the most maliciously retarded and ran by the people who can mentally afford waifu body pillows, meanwhile real men (and fuck, even women, the actual 3% out there) are too busy doing the mental math for hose pressure and hauling gear and trying to do a job. California isn't all liberal uppity elite, even in LA you still have guys going into LAFD, people who's parents worked construction, or were in the service industries, or what have you. The usual poor people that know what it's like and end up the highly motived types that will rant on an open radio line because they're being treated like trash, being sent to fight and die in a losing war that their administration not only started but continues to make worse, and wow I feel like we've heard this sentiment a lot recently since the Afghanistan pullout.
You're 100% correct that Adam is a hoe tho. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. Fuck California.
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Oh but Enron never did anything wrong and never had carryovers for the people that took on things after them amirite? I wonder how many people created the situation that manifested Enron and how many are still connected to that industry and SoCalEd? You'll be surprised how fucking retarded these corps generally are.
In my state, not in the US btw, electricity providers will waste billions on faulty insulators which periodically cause fires, fires which the government and press here blame on other things because their only expert to call on for this (at a dumb superficial admin level) is the fucking corporation that made the fires.
I've literally dug through their internal documentation and records for months as a job and know damn well they just blew their money on crappy products that didn't work and caused fires because of, I kid you not, a reality TV show here that promoted the insulators to them (insulators which they proceeded to rollout fucking STATEWIDE kek). Bigger state than California btw. This is actually fucking hilarious to me until I see the power bill nowadays here because of billion dollar legal cases and power line replacements (they're still going, this has been going on for over 20 years).
Largely to do with insurance cases too (i.e. insurers not covering this issue because of a breach of the utility provider's own duties).
So it is a genuine possibility. I would not doubt it at all.
In fact, that could explain why the fires occurred on the opposite side of town to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station because that corp made sure those insulators and lines near the nuclear hazard were up to standard for obvious reasons.
It being a winter on a mountain also indicates the potential for weather related influence for this disaster. Metals like to contract in the cold. Plastics and ceramics also crack in the cold. I can tell you without a doubt lines and insulators do not like salt, heat or cold. Salt being the main issue there, especially given the location for one of these fires.
We know for a fact Enron had major problems with fixing their bullshit lines in the 90s because of ... now obvious reasons.
The case in my state was literally around the same time (bit after) and it was carrying over until nearly 2020 as a problem. We still get fires in specific locations I know had dodgy insulators that were prone to losing chemical properties because of salt spray on coastlines.
But we do need to comb over evidence their expenditure, repairs, types of lines, equipment and ... oh who am I kidding they will never release any of that shit after Enron.
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Are they actually starting to contain double digit percentages of each fire now, or is there still a good chance the fires could multiply, and engulf more residential neighborhoods than what's already been charred?
Cause I just wanna see more rich people lose their mansions, pleeeeeeeeease
Cause I just wanna see more rich people lose their mansions, pleeeeeeeeease
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allegedly winds will pick up tomorrow
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We haven't even seen what the summer season bring to California.