California Ground Zero idiocy

[moXJO]

This probably wasn't preventable but it was foreseeable.
There's huge failures here that we're routinely pointed out.

No kidding: California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to prevent wildfires

Grazing goats are in high demand to devour wild grass and shrubs that are proliferating across California after a drought-busting winter of heavy rain and snow. When the summer heat arrives, that vegetation will dry out and provide fresh tinder for wildfires. Public and private landowners are...

apnews.com

I could literally just keep posting f$%k ups that helped lead to this. The list is endless. Even the water management. Guaranteed media will run bs and blame climate change. This is DEI in action. There's a reason you put the best most experienced you can hire into a job.

 

[farmerge]

This probably wasn't preventable but it was foreseeable.
There's huge failures here that we're routinely pointed out.

No kidding: California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to prevent wildfires

Grazing goats are in high demand to devour wild grass and shrubs that are proliferating across California after a drought-busting winter of heavy rain and snow. When the summer heat arrives, that vegetation will dry out and provide fresh tinder for wildfires. Public and private landowners are...

apnews.com

I could literally just keep posting f$%k ups that helped lead to this. The list is endless. Even the water management. Guaranteed media will run bs and blame climate change. This is DEI in action. There's a reason you put the best most experienced you can hire into a job.

Last count that I heard tonight was 5 dead and possibly many, many more, 1100 homes/buildings gone and thousands of acres burnt to a crisp.
And summer hasn't even poked its nose in yet.

 

[farmerge]

The TV footage that was shown on the Idiot Box tonight is getting to the unbelievable stage.
Looking more and more like footage from a war zone.
People being killed, injured and no doubt these numbers will unfortunately increase.

 

[Knobby22]

So wealthy individuals are trying to hire private fire fighting teams, generally made of prisoners. The same people who fought for fire fighting reductions by raging against taxes.

Some things are better done as a community.

As Los Angeles burned, a millionaire called for private firefighters to save his property

There is fire and fury on the streets of one of America's richest suburbs as its high-profile residents come to terms with the loss of their homes and the possible impact fire department funding cuts and cancelled insurance policies might have had on the disaster.

www.abc.net.au

 

[farmerge]

So wealthy individuals are trying to hire private fire fighting teams, generally made of prisoners. The same people who fought for fire fighting reductions by raging against taxes.

Some things are better done as a community.

As Los Angeles burned, a millionaire called for private firefighters to save his property

There is fire and fury on the streets of one of America's richest suburbs as its high-profile residents come to terms with the loss of their homes and the possible impact fire department funding cuts and cancelled insurance policies might have had on the disaster.

www.abc.net.au

Fire storms and out of control fires don't give a rats who you are. Money won't buy safety in these cases.

 

[IFocus]

In those conditions of ember attack not sure there is much you can do wind strength was far worse than we have seen in Oz plus the fires start to create their own momentum once you reach a certain size.

The building code would definitely be in question yanks use a lot of timber much of those streets had no bush or little natural inflammables.

Of course last thing you want is the government telling you what to do in the land of the free.

And the cancelled insurance thing is really just good business... isn't it?

 

[farmerge]

In those conditions of ember attack not sure there is much you can do wind strength was far worse than we have seen in Oz plus the fires start to create their own momentum once you reach a certain size.

The building code would definitely be in question yanks use a lot of timber much of those streets had no bush or little natural inflammables.

Of course last thing you want is the government telling you what to do in the land of the free.

And the cancelled insurance thing is really just good business... isn't it?

Hmmmmmmmmmm that mongrel black bottom line on the balance sheet. Probably $trillions saved and $trillions lost by the land owners.

 

[DB008]

 

[farmerge]

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How very apt and so very true from all reports.

 

[Smurf1976]

And the cancelled insurance thing is really just good business... isn't it?

It's a great illustration of why price controls are a sure way to make a big problem even bigger.

Governments never seem to learn that you don't stop a leak by plugging up where it's coming out but rather, you need to stop the source. That to stop inflation they need to stop printing money, not stop businesses and individuals trying to protect themselves.

Insurance companies aren't saints but that one's down to government incompetence and interference. There's enough lawyers in the US that someone probably will bring about a class action and rightly so.