As I understand it, SoCal is going through one of its four seasons: Fire, Mudslide, Earthquake and Summer.
This particular fire season is muy mucho. Color me unmoved.
Unmoved by people who do not want the hinterlands around their homes “disturbed” and purposely vote for people who refuse to manage the hinterlands, thereby turning them into a tinderbox. They then build more homes armpit to armpit along the border of said tinderbox, because restricting building further into the hinterlands causes property prices to rise, and then they top it all off by planting the wildly popular Eucaliptus trees in their yards, which, when applied with fire, becomes a Molotov Cocktail tree.
And lastly, they demand federal money to rebuild their homes in exactly the same spot.
Rinse and repeat.
Sound cold-hearted? Maybe so.
But when I read crap like this from so-called respectable left-wing bloggers, I loose all ability to empathize with their plight
When I got home last night there wasn’t any parking, which I take to mean that a lot of evacuated people are staying with friends and family in the neighborhood; the beach being the farthest point on land on which to run. This, of course, got me thinking where would I go should I get the dreaded reverse 911 call. All there is is sand and then water and, believe me, bassets don’t float.
He is just now thinking of where he should evac to? Is this guy a complete and total fucking idiot?
Why yes. Yes, he is.
He should have all this thought of in advance. This is why Katrina should have been considered Darwinism. Wherein the stupid people were stuck in the deathtrap that could have been the Superdome because of their inability to manage their own lives.
You plan where you are going to go (multiple routes in case of blockages in any particular direction) what you are going to take with you (if you have enough warning to gather things), and how to make sure that everyone you live with makes it to the meeting point safely, BEFORE you have to worry about it.
People like TBogg shouldn’t get a “reverse 911 call”. They should be deemed too stupid to handle anything more than waffle-making and be left in their ignorance.
Sound cold-hearted? Maybe so.
But should someone this ignorant be allowed to breed, let alone vote? Methinks not.
He made his bed, or in all actuality, consciously refused to do so, and should therefore be made to lie in it.
Of course, maybe TBogg should remember not to smoke in bed.
The indians used to call the LA Valley “The Valley of Fire” because it burned rather often. Make that stop for a few decades and then drop a lighting strike (or an arsonist) in the middle of it, and that is what you get.
I’m just wondering if those homeowners should be forced to buy carbon offsets for all the CO2 their houses are producing…
It’s no worse than building trailer parks in Tornado Alley; every year lots of people get wiped out, but they just rebuild in the same spots.
Is it going to take the deaths of large quantities of famous people to make them change this stupid method of planning and building? They need to start next spring with thousands of goats and maybe even cattle to reduce the fuel. Then have all new houses made of fire resistant materials-I suppose the houses of ash around the tile roofed ones left intact had plain shingle roofs…
So much to say about this waste of national resources and this year, even lives.
Some of the houses around here still have wood shake roofs. Now that’s scary.
BobG: We don’t build’em. Just tow’em in and hook’em up! 😉
Greetings from Salt Spring Island, BC, where I sit in luxury at the top of a forested hill, safe from wildfire ONLY due to the efforts of the homeowner to keep the vegetation back. Marvelous view here.
About 20 years ago, there was a bad fire in San Berdoo, up on the ridges north of town. Over 300 very spendy homes were lost. Many had shake roofs, and after that fire, such roofs were outlawed in Kali. Not outlawed was stupidity. Almost every one of those homes had a large swimming pool. Almost all those pools were full of 22,000 gallons of water. When the houses burned down, the pools were STILL full of 22,000 gallons of water because the owners had not:
1. built any system to get that water out of the pools and onto the roofs.
2. built any system to get that water out front of the houses to the streets where the fire wagons could tap into it to pump onto the fire.
Stupidity is as stupidity does, according to a famous movie retard.
They want sympathy? Tell ’em it’s in the dictionary, between “shit” and “syphilis”.
As you mentioned, let us not forget the mudslides. People who build multi-million dollar homes on a slope so steep they need supports on the downhill side to keep them from falling down the dry slope, then when it rains and the house falls downhill they expect the taxpayer to cover their cost to rebuild on the new slope.
Or the idiots who build on the beach on the east or Gulf coast, knowing that when it washes away there’s ‘government’, also known as ‘rob the taxpayer’, insurance to pay to rebuild the damn thing.