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

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

So any guesses how long this is all going to last? End of February? End of March? Are we looking at a six month time frame? How long will it take the wealthiest, and most socially progressive state to put out a few fires?

 

[Google.com]

So any guesses how long this is all going to last? End of February? End of March? Are we looking at a six month time frame? How long will it take the wealthiest, and most socially progressive state to put out a few fires?

If you mean till California stops burning... Never it's constantly on fire.

 

[Jade Goody]

The world is ending, btw!

 

[FatalTater]

The world is ending, btw!

I'm going to need more details, please.
Date? Time? Place where it is to begin?
Surely you don't just mean the site might be endangered, that's just a given.
If the world is ending I need to know how many days worth of groceries I need to get when I go shopping.
Should I bother washing the load of towels in the laundry basket?
Gotta plan for these things.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I was listening to a couple of the San Diego County fire channels and I was about to go to bed when I hear an alarm on the dispatch channel and call up several more engines. I decide to check the web cam from the harbor real quick. I don't know what happened, but the Border 2 Fire is doing it's best Mt Doom impression.

Then I hear over the Ops channel, "That puts the a kibosh on setting a back fire."
Slide show from Mt Otay camera directly after hearing that gem. Looks like whatever went up almost took out their relay tower.

Smoke is far worse than it's been since @FatalTater posted a link to this channel

While I was putting this together I caught part of dispatch confirming a 100'x100' spot fire, but the transmission got stepped on hard. This might be a big fuck up.

e: new brush fire reported at I-8 and Victoria Dr in Alpine, CA
Border 2 Fire looks much closer to Chula Vista than it should

If anybody has friends in the south San Diego County, wake them the fuck up.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Another angle of the brew up from San Miguel

 

[Vect]

Shit. I have Battlenet friend in San Diego. I'll message him now.

 

[wandererthetraveler]

Hughes seems to be almost half the size of the Palisades fire now. According to watchduty, at least.

 

[IKOL]

If it ain't God's Providence due tohumans' arrogance and complete neglect of any responsibility and degeneracy I don't know what else is there.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Somebody on the Ops net said the fire has probably doubled in size in the last hour, is currently producing extreme spotting, and the fire is bumping up against the south edge of Lower Otay Revivor. Timelaspe from the San Miguel South cam covering approximately an hour

 

[Haramburger]

As a snowdweller I like how there's no equivalency between blizzards and wildifres. The worst I can do is say "haha, I don't feel like going out today, so there's no need to shovel my driveway or sidewalk." Californians not doing their due diligence or disaster prepping: $500+ billion lost

Shit. I have Battlenet friend in San Diego. I'll message him now.

what game, your response determines his fate

 

[Hooked on phobics]

ITS STILL fucking expanding?

At this rate, do you think this will effect voting? Not in an "obviously people wont be re-elected" sense, but more like "what if an entire voting district has burned to the ground?" sense.

Like could Californians electoral value for presidential elections be reduced?

 

[Dawdler]

Ring of Fire

DEI is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by POC desire
I fell into a ring of fire

I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

ITS STILL fucking expanding?

At this rate, do you think this will effect voting? Not in an "obviously people wont be re-elected" sense, but more like "what if an entire voting district has burned to the ground?" sense.

Like could Californians electoral value for presidential elections be reduced?

Well, millions would have to die for that to happen. For people to move out, they need to have money and who knows if insurance and FAIR is going to cover all this? We now have a legit homeless problem now, but that shouldn't affect registered voters.

 

[Meriasek]

Aight can the fires please stop, I have to be in San Diego in one week.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Like could Californians electoral value for presidential elections be reduced?

Federal districts are based on census data, and the next census isn't until 2030, so probably not.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

Well, millions would have to die for that to happen. For people to move out, they need to have money and who knows if insurance and FAIR is going to cover all this? We now have a legit homeless problem now, but that shouldn't affect registered voters.

nah, even if you don't get enough money to SETUP in another city, I could see people trying another state JUST because they have nothing anyway anymore. Even if they were so destitute they couldn't afford a 500$ trip to another state, I think a large amount have family who would AT LEAST pay to fly them out. Beyond that, deaths will rise from tensions, desperation, suicides (hope nobody here does that, but I'm just being realistic) and probably a ripple effect where employers are effected by either damaged property, employee troubles (homeless in crisis employees aren't as productive) and damaged infrastructure, which could put businesses under even if they AREN'T burned down, which unemploys MORE people which makes MORE folks want to leave. And LA area taxes lost will also mean less available assistance if recovery isn't expedient enough.

Like the potential for a death spiral is very, very, very real right now, even if its not 100%.

 

[DickMain]

Fuck the politics of the place, but your average Cali libtard probably only thinks about national level shit and not local level disorganization that puts their civil servants at a disadvantage for emergencies, so I can't really bring myself to say 'ha ha they voted for this' or something retarded. Just give them like a single day of not burning to the ground for fuck's sake. Can't imagine being stranded there right now.

 

[You're MDNWU]

If anybody has friends in the south San Diego County, wake them the fuck up

Rip to friends n fam.

Hopefully they still have insurance for their $500k 2/1 shack in the ghetto of Chula

 

[Asian tech support]

Rip to friends n fam.

Hopefully they still have insurance for their $500k 2/1 shack in the ghetto of Chula

At least they'll get to watch as the fire eats all of the multimillion dollar mcmansions in Otay first.