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.
