California wildfires

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

"One big reason I’ve always chosen to live in Pasadena is because we have our own water basin, separate health ordinances and electrical grids. 

We have water in our fire hydrants thanks to the Raymond Basin."

https://twitter.com/crypto_mami_/status/...4225g&s=19

I have lived in California for over 50 years, and  regularly clear brush around my house, including on the county road right of way. The harder it is to clear, probably means that it is even more important to do. Some counties use inmates to do this work.

Yeah and no. 50 foot areas are protecting you only to an extent. A wind event fire is futile. These fires can jump 9000 feet downwind from embers. That's a beast basic land management can't prevent against.

You can clear the barrier around your property, and along the public roads, but it's just not feasible to clear the hillsides. There's just so many treeless dead weed covered hillsides to do it ever.

This isn't the smoking gun for Idiot LA County policy for once. You can blame crime on liberal policies all day, but I'm not seeing a link to idiot democrats as much as grasping for a reason to blame them.

LA County FD gets its Altadena water from the Raymond Basin too. Think the system is interconnected with Pasadena. They are definitely from that same primary source.

It's just not fair on this one. For once the democrats didn't do it. Choosing to live in a wind tunnel canyon maybe, But they made it 138 years.

In Palisades LAFDs politics did not lead to there only being 3 tanks present when there were never any plans for unnecessary supply being added in any budget. Or for an upgrade to the existing capacity of the system. We waste money, but not that much..

There is no government/planning connection to the futility of their efforts or any budgeting issues in my mind.

I feel it's an unnecessary politicizing that I had hoped would go away once Trump won. But instead it hasn't faded, even with carte blanche approaching, and I don't like why this has become another opportunity to polarize everyone.

We don't need this polarization. It's like there's a collective effort to try to convince any Southern Califonian they can to blame their elected democrats officials and think it should have been prevented.

It's like, Jeez media, let us count our dead first, and then you'll have the ear of many of the bereaved if you wish capitalize upon their tragedy and instill a like-minded hatred of the democrat policy.

It is unsettling how much blood lust there is for everything bashing California policy. And while the delicate balance of democracy needs both bashing each-other to not become fascism, I had hoped this generational tragedy would take a vitriol lap off.

I'm just compelled to try to stop the politics on this one. Even though I just make it worse.