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Speaking on the subject of the horrific fires raging in California, the Mayor of LA informs city residents that they can find help at URL:

“Right now, if you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available.

All of this can be found at URL.

Los Angeles, together is how we will get through this.”

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1877180303648702552?t=LrnJFy54KiOdPiXPagix1Q&s=19

Firefighting was defunded in LA. The leadership was DEI-ed. As a result, the Mayor is telling people to go to URL, and that’s all because they didn’t tell her to go to hell while they still had a chance.

It’s quite fitting that people should be told that help and shelter can only be found in the virtual reality, and even there an exact URL is a secret.

30 responses to “Pray for California”

  1. Raymond Reichelt Avatar
    Raymond Reichelt

    It’s like an Ayn Rand novel where the world goes to hell because of bad political decisions

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  2. beezeencaolcom Avatar
    beezeencaolcom

    I live in South Pasadena, CA. The synagogue where my kids went to preschool has been destroyed. Thank God, we are all safe. The kids are having a second snow day with school canceled. It has been snowing ash. 😦

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      That’s so horrible, I’m so sorry! But good that you are safe. What a calamity, I feel terrible for California, such a beautiful state.

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  3. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    This thing makes $500,000/yr to tell you that expecting firefighters to rescue people is unreasonable.

    I think CA’s demise is largely responsible for the current realignment to the right. Nobody wants to turn into CA, a one-party state where leftist politicians get to live out their wildest fantasies. And just look at the results.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      What kind of a bizarre person cares whether the firefighter who arrives to rescue them “looks like them”? This is such weird mentality. It’s beyond superficial. I’d expect a spoiled 11-year-old brat to speak like this but not an adult person.

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        Once they’re wearing all that gear you can’t see them anyway.

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        1. kharking Avatar
          kharking

          I’m told that the assistant midwife at one of my births was a pagan lesbian. I have no memory of her other than a physical presence at all. In those types of circumstances, getting the job done is all that matters.

          Don’t need help and it won’t matter that the person tasked with helping isn’t competent. It must be your fault that bad stuff happens anyway. Shut up and pay more taxes or public safety gets it.

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      2. Stringer Bell Avatar
        Stringer Bell

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          I didn’t see this until now. Wow, just wow. They are mocking the devastation. The party of compassion that they are.

          Bastards.

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        2. random reader Avatar
          random reader

          This is terrible. If anything this proves that whoever is in charge there is not in the right place. I used to live in an area with a high fire risk and have seen the devastation that forest fires can do. I’m upset at what is happening in CA. I don’t believe they are really doing everything they can to stop these fires. How do you run out of water being so near a big body of water? Also, the chances these fires started through a human error are very high. One of the most devastating fires in the area where I used to live was due to a “controlled burn” that got out of control. The population there was much sparser than in LA, I can’t even start to comprehend the devastation in LA.

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          1. Clarissa Avatar
            Clarissa

            None of this is unpredictable. The Santa Anas are known world over. There should be readiness for this. This should be a #1 priority. We keep hearing about California fires a lot. And it only just gets worse.

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            1. Stringer Bell Avatar
              Stringer Bell

              People love blaming this on “climate change” so they don’t have to take responsibility for anything. It’s really a religion.

              “The Climate Change Gods are angry at us.”

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              1. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                This morning a colleague regaled me with a rant about how the snow we are experiencing (in January in Illinois) is a result of climate change. I pointed out that we recently purchased a book from 1898 showing kids sledding and skating in our town. The colleague looked momentarily confused but then continued ranting about climate change.

                Religion it is.

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              2. Stringer Bell Avatar
                Stringer Bell
                https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1877074916094390474
                https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1877077209522876868

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              3. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                We discuss this every time California burns. And every time it burns harder. Any more of this, and we will have to wonder how much of what we know as California will be left.

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              4. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                At least somebody is helping: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1877547777858687231?t=W483BWjBqTK9PDOgHSL3jw&s=19

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  4. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    I’ve lived in southern california all my life, it’s the only home I’ve known in america. This is so terrible.

    There will never be a place like this.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      This is horrible, I’m so sorry. The footage of the devastation is impossible to believe. And just knowing that it didn’t have to happen is maddening.

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  5. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Death penalty.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I suspected it was arson but didn’t want to say to avoid causing pain. I really hope the bastard doesn’t get off on an insanity defense.

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      1. Stringer Bell Avatar
        Stringer Bell

        So much of modern society’s infrastructure is premised on the assumption that people are decent and will not do insane things. If that trust is not there you just cannot marshal the resources to make sure everything is safe. Random guy starts a fire in an isolated wilderness area, like what can anyone do? Appoint a cop at every campground in the country to watch for arsonists 24/7?

        We’re so fragile.

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        1. cliff arroyo Avatar
          cliff arroyo

          “So much of modern society’s infrastructure is premised on the assumption that people are decent and will not do insane things”

          That’s not the insane part. The insane part is still believing that while undercutting every kind of social safety net and trying to bring ‘creative destruction’ into people’s lives. The idea that reactions to neoliberal chaos won’t include wildly uncreative destruction never occurs to them….

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  6. el Avatar
    el

    A good article:

    No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage

    And its summary in Russian which I found interesting. A quote from it:

    … a huge and constantly expanding agglomeration is located in one of the most risky areas in terms of natural disasters, where, on the one hand, the constant risk of an earthquake forces houses to be built from lightweight materials and wood, and on the other hand, all this becomes a problem with regular fires. The danger of which is increasing as urban development moves into the countryside, increasing pressure on nature, and the last few dry years [worsened the situation].

    Requirements for the construction of houses from fire-resistant materials, the redevelopment of old urban areas and the constant clearing of rural areas imply new and very significant costs, which means taxes and public outrage. Attempts to save money lead to crises similar to the current one. But in general, it all comes down to the fact that real climate change in the region, disrupting the historical natural balance, is creating more and more problems. And it turns Southern California into a semblance of the Mediterranean, where similar fires occur annually, in fact, as a familiar element of the landscape.

    There are no simple solutions or answers here, although today there is a desire for cheap PR and hysterical spin on the one political side and attempts by local authorities to justify their shortcomings through natural changes on the other. Although the main question becomes – what to do in a situation when the summer fire season has combined with powerful winter winds?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Ah, the climate change brigade. The absolute shamelessness and cynicism of these people knows no limits.

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  7. PaulS Avatar
    PaulS

    We have the same climate as California, so fires are a problem every year. Luckily, the local authorities put competence ahead of DEI, so we should be prepared.

    https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/fire-season-cape-town-hopes-for-an-easier-ride-but-prepares-for-7-000-wildfires-anyway-20241130

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Exactly. How does human civilization even exist if we can’t do anything about natural phenomena?

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  8. Socal Dendrite Avatar
    Socal Dendrite

    I live(d) in Altadena. My house is one of the black ones on this map (still standing) but surrounded by blocks and blocks of devastation. Almost everyone I know lost their home. Everyone thinks their home town is special, but Altadena was truly a wonderful place – full of kind, helpful, quirky people. We were always amazed that such a place existed in LA. We are lost and heartbroken.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Oh, that’s terrible. I’m so sorry! What a terrible, terrible loss. It’s truly a dreadful calamity visited on such a beautiful place. I’m so so sorry.

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    2. cliff arroyo Avatar
      cliff arroyo

      “I live(d) in Altadena”

      Deepest sympathies, such a terrible loss. Words fail….

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    3. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      I know there’s not much useful to say, but… I’m sorry. Losing a house is pretty awful. Losing your whole community is hard to even categorize. 😦

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