39 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. Yeah, why does Kevin Bacon saying “Stay calm, all is well.” come into my mind.

    Or Frank Drebin, “Nothing to see here, move along.”

  3. Made the mistake of turning on CNN for 10 seconds. “LA Fire Climate Change – Trump is bad”. So tired of it all.

    1. Well the climate change good news is ten to thirty thousand Democrat cars are off the road.

      And ten to thirty thousand Democrat houses won’t need air conditioning.

      That should definitely reduce global warming!!!!
      Sarc.

  4. The incompetence is right in your face and they don’t care, not a worry, not one drop of nervous sweat……. How do people go about being so willingly subjugated to the point of easily explained misery, that they had a hand in engineering?
    Is it that important to be so ignorantly “happy”.

    2. the application of propaganda has been majorly refined since
      the golden age af josef goebbels. theyre very good at it now.

  5. Quit building in fire trap canyons where fires like this are inevitable. Add the coastal areas to that list as well for obvious reasons.

    The insurance industry has recognized the risks and have vacated leaving the State to step in. Newsom should announce CA is not in the insurance industry effective immediately.

    1. Yes, and all the homes in Aspen should be torn down because it’s too damn cold there … and of course every home in Canada should never have been built because it’s too damn cold. Honestly, do you people even hear yourselves when you talk?

      And of course Israel should NEVER have built a Paradise in the desert.

      Yeah … let’s all allow nature to kick our asses. We should only live in perfectly temperate zones where we don’t need homes, and don’t need to modify nature to suit our needs.

      Come on ma’aaan

      1. We build in lots of places that aren’t safe from 50 or 100 year events.

        Let’s not build anywhere where there are forests.

        Let’s not build where there are tornados.

        Let’s not build where earthquakes occur.

        Let’s not build where there are hurricanes

        Let’s not build near hillsides.

        Let’s not build anywhere near volcanos.

        I could go on.

        The answer is to build robustly, which we know how to do.

        In the case of California they knew they should clear underbrush. They knew they shouldn’t allow outdoor fires during dry or windy conditions. They knew they needed more water, but left projects tied up in red tape. And we’re hearing LA hasn’t replaced stolen fire hydrants.

        1. Same with the BC fires, they had 8 years to clear dead trees and Parks Canada refused, despite being begged to do so by the Mayor of Jasper

      2. I don’t care if you build your house on the rim of an active volcano. Just expect it to burn. Do you even hear yourself when you talk?

        1. Yeah … LA sprawl happened because they all couldn’t wait to live on the edge of a volcano. People couldn’t WAIT to get incinerated.

          1. I don’t care why sprawl happened. Go ahead and rebuild – just expect the same result next time and the time after that.

            Albert Einstein

    2. Haven’t been to LA, I’m guessing? There are places built that are questionable, but the coast isn’t one of them. CA doesn’t have to be in the insurance business with a proper government. You know, with functioning hydrants, a competent fire department, good land management? Would you add Jasper to that no build list?

      1. The insurance industry backstops capitalism. They provide protection to companies that otherwise would not be able to operate.

        The same thing is true of residential mortgages. Try and get a house loan without fire insurance. No insurance no loan. So when the insurance industry says they are leaving a market, it’s over. No lending institution will touch you with a barge pole.

        Chose wisely when you decide to build your home. Stay away from flood plains and fire traps.

  6. Amazing qualifications. Definitely not a Democrat insider appointment.

    Her Ivy league credentials aside for a moment she was picked for the job by Mayor Karen Bass after a “nation wide search”. So unless you think Bass is a rock ribbed Republican…

    Another factoid – City council approved her $750,000 salary soon after she took the job…contrast that with her predecessor, the hapless Martin Adams who was paid $447,000 and change for his troubles and who hadn’t received a raise since 2019.
    Most likely a “WTH!!!” moment for Marty.

    1. She would’ve gotten a cool million if she was black, just one more box to tick. If she wasn’t queer as a three dollar bill, wouldn’t even have looked at her.

  7. The strategic plan for the LAFD has 4 pages on DEI, the word water only shows up 4 times in the report and the word hydrant isn’t in the plan at all.

  8. I don’t know if factual but I read or heard long time ago that when the settlers reached the coast in the LA areas they we’re surprised to see no natives living there where they were told “because of frequent fires”.
    Conspiracies abound, not unlike the Hawaïan fire, this time not for land grab but to erase large area of child sex abuses aka Didi story(?)

    1. You mean they won’t be using this fire as a land grab for the 2028 Summer Olympics, where at least 1 venue was in Pacific Palisades?

  9. Wealthy liberal racists aren’t all stupid, so far Gavin Newsom’s plan has worked perfectly, but hopefully it backfires. While the majority of idiots are probably fine with seeing their homes go up in flames if it supports the cause, enough of those bastards may be sad enough to form a cadre of opposition.

    1. But, but, but … the Delta smelt is the most important food source for Striped Bass in the San Joaquin Delta! If the Delta smelt are pushed upstream by salt water intrusion … the Striped Bass population may overtax the upstream Sacramento River! Ohhhhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaa. Thankfully, a Federal Judge ruled in favor of Striped Bass over the PEOPLE of CA … because we need to be “good stewards of the environment”.

      My simple, common sense question remains … CA has had drought cycles for eons. So how did the Striped Bass manage to survive all those droughts before man ever showed up and built dams? How did they cope with the salt water intrusion before a single human ever dammed-up a river? Aren’t we interrupting the natural cycle of the Striped Bass by maintaining a constant, unchanging, flow of fresh water? It’s unnatural to do so.

  12. But seriously, let’s say they hired you to fix this mess. What would you do differently? You have a finite budget but it can be increased by 50%. Carte Blanche to fix this problem. What is your recommendation?

    IMO it is an unsolvable problem. Sure, bury the hydro lines, get rid of the homeless, keep the kindling to a minimum. But how can you allocate more water to a few rich neighborhoods in a state with a water shortage? What can you do in an area that has seen serious fires for over 5,000 years?

    Human expansion into areas of danger is a problem everywhere and there is only one solution. And it’s not better insurance.

    1. California doesn’t have a water shortage, it has a shortage of water management. Put the TVA on it for a few years.

    2. 1. Import as many homeless illegal aliens as possible and allow them to camp wherever they wish.
      2. Divert a huge portion of water resources to support meaningless “endangered” species.
      3. Remove as many water retention dams as possible.
      4. Ensure that regulations delay the construction of new dams for decades.
      5. Fail to engage with electric utilities and incentivize the movement of overhead power lines to underground lines.
      6. Blame Trump.
      7. Blame Climate Change.
      8. Blame White Colonizers.

      BTW, there is no such thing as a finite budget in California.

      The problems can actually be addressed, but not with traditional lot sizes, not with traditional (flammable) building materials, and not affordably. Northern California has had a couple of monster winters recently, but insufficient runoff was captured, and a lot of what was recovered has been wasted.

  15. A “Build Back Better” wet dream. No retrofitting requirements. Easier to rip out Natural gas pipelines, get rid of gas stations, etc. And make climate change deniers pay for it.

  16. It is uncanny how much ahead of his time Trump was in

    ‘Trump Slams California Water Mismanagement, Blames Newsom For ‘Sending Water To Pacific To Save Smelt’ Over People’
    https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/08/wildfire-donald-trump-gavin-newssom-california/

    Much the same when he told the Germans this:

    ‘GERMANS LAUGH AT TRUMP when he warns “Germany will become totally dependent Russian energy” UN 2018’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKEycjREgPE

  17. They should have listened to Albert Hammond. It never rains in California

    Seems it never rains in southern California
    Seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before
    It never rains in California
    But girl, don’t they warn ya?
    It pours, man, it pours

    Out of work, I’m out

  18. You would figure with all the DEI carpet munchers hired that trimming the underbrush would just be obvious.

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