Southern California on Fire

Tiassa said:
Maybe because the government hasn't abandoned them yet?

Hmm ... just maybe?

:rolleyes:
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10+ billion dollars spent in the first 8 months after Hurricane Katrina and you say the government abandoned the people of New Orleans?

The government's costliest initiative -- $6.4 billion allocated to place storm survivors in temporary trailers and mobile homes , is abandoning the people of New Orleans?

$114 billion has been spent on the effort to rebuild a large stretch of the Gulf Coast after the storm hit New Orleans in August 2005, this is the government abandoning the people of the Gulf Coast?

:roflmao::roflmao:
 
That was one of several theories. There are plenty more. I think I already posted them earlier.

Environmental policies that prohibit controlled burns and clearing vegetation. Probably true.

Predictable acts of nature made worse by people choosing to live in their paths. Partially true.

The fires are being set by jihadi terrorists. We don't know yet.

It's God's judgment for lawmakers banning 'Mom' and 'Dad' from the classroom. Interesting take...

'Fire-bug' arsonists who get their kicks starting fires. Possibly.

Eco-terrorists seeking to stop suburban sprawl into wildlands. Not impossible.

Divine punishment for San Diego's mayor reversing his position and now endorsing same-sex marriage. Hmmmm.

Global warming. Oh puhleeze. :mad:

I also heard criminal aliens but I don't know yet. :confused:

Oh, I forgot. Many liberals say it's all Bush's fault. Morons....
 
One of the guys arrested for arson is Gorgonio Nava. The other was not identified because he is a juvenile. We're not sure yet if they're criminal aliens.
At least four people have been arrested for investigation of arson since the wildfires broke out over the weekend.:mad:
 
One of the other guys arrested is Catalino Pineda, 41. Witnesses told police they saw him lighting a fire on a hillside in the West Hills area of San Fernando then walking away. :mad:

Pineda was already on probation for "making excessive false emergency reports" to police at the time of the arrest. :mad:
 
What does that have to do with anything, Buff?

Buffalo Roam said:

10+ billion dollars spent in the first 8 months after Hurricane Katrina and you say the government abandoned the people of New Orleans?
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That's a separate question, Buff.

Then again, more fool me for expecting you to be smart enough to recognize that.
 
cali takes care of their own
usually
all take their cues from us
cutting edge first responders and whatnot

statehood, cali style, is an outward flow of cash
a pilfering
thats it
 
Bizarre behavior. One thing about forests is they grow back better after a fire. Thts mother nature man. Thats why its called Mother Nature.
 
sandy said:
Cops flirt, stutter, drool, and then faint when they stop me. They don't have the strength/desire to shoot. I don't litter.
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Any sensible legal system would make it a criminal offense to use your God given beauty to manipulate others. Bamn, your dead. Oh, wait a moment. you live in the US. You don't have a sensible legal system.
 
S.A.M. said:
The people who evacuated in California must have means or finances, the people in New Orleans were either poor or turned back at gunpoint by their friendly neighboring states.
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Not all. The south side of San Diego (Barrio Logan, Chula Vista, National City) are all fairly poor relative to their surrounding areas and populated by a lot of first-generation Pacific rim and Mexican immigrants.

North of the city, you're correct.
 
Ophiolite said:
Any sensible legal system would make it a criminal offense to use your God given beauty to manipulate others. Bamn, your dead. Oh, wait a moment. you live in the US. You don't have a sensible legal system.
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I don't even have to work it. It just happens. :D
 
awesome article fffrom a local girl

If you were to write down how many fires are raging in Southern California right now, you would be wrong, because every time you look, a new one springs up between the Mexican border and Ventura. You can’t even keep track of the names: Canyon, Harris, Witch, Buckweed, Magic, Ranch, Sedgewick, Santiago, Little Mountain, Soledad Canyon — the names get less inventive as the process drags on. (Not even Governor Schwarzenegger can keep track — on Monday, he had to count upward during a press conference.) But only the number is unusual: The astonishing thing about Southern California is not that it continues to burn, but that people appear perennially shocked that it does. And that well into the 21st century, nothing — no high-tech helicopter, no flame-retardant-spewing fixed-wing aircraft, no high-powered hose or even responsible brush clearance — seems able to stop it. The governor, who owns property in star-studded and frequently fire-ravaged Malibu, summed it up best: “What we need is the weather to change.”

“What we need is the weather to change.”

and across this beloved country of mine we have 97 fires with about half fully contained
 
And the reason many of those tracts burn so readily is that they have roofs made of shake shingles--or as I call them, kindling wood.

There was a photo on the front page of the L.A. Times after the Bradbury fire--I don't know, maybe 25 years ago. What struck me was not that an entire neighborhood had been leveled, but scattered througout the obliteration there were about seven houses still standing. Those were the ones that didn't have wood shingle roofs.
 
i dont get it then
here is an opportunity to add more regulations
a process that gets local govt salivating

why aint it banned frag?

bah
developer
hm own assc
clout
 
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