I am not posting a specific link here because there are so many.
What I am doing is praying for the 10,000+ families who have lost their homes. The thousands more who lost their businesses. The hundreds of thousands who have gone days without power or water and will go at least two more days before those services even start to be restored.
The death toll is likely to rise over the coming days but the numbers so far are blessedly few compared to the scope of the destruction and how fast the flames moved through the area.
Although I do not care for either Governor Newsom or Mayor Karen Bass I am not happy how they are being blamed for the consequences of decisions that were made years and even decades before they came into power. Yes, they need to own the consequences of their decisions such as cutting the fire department budget while squandering billions of dollars on a homeless problem they encouraged.
Looking at the terrain the first problem is that wooden homes had no business being built in a fire zone. The decision to build in those locations was made decades ago.
I have seen several homes in the news that survived and they were built of concrete and steel or else they were wrapped in fireproof materials.
The issue of fire hydrants running out of water is to me simple. The system was designed to help firefighters put out house fires or building fires. Designing and building a system capable of putting out a World War Two level city-wide firestorm would have been absurdly expensive and sensible people would have never approved of the expense to compensate for what would have seemed an unlikely possibility.
Arson is an issue and the people being arrested so far are either illegal aliens or mentally ill homeless people. Democrat politicians will neither address this aspect of the problem nor will they solve it.
Using the Lahaina, Hawaii fires as an example the truth is that these people in Los Angeles will not see their homes or businesses rebuilt for years to come. Environmental regulations will frustrate rebuilding efforts, the government will inevitably want to charge exorbitant amounts of money for inspections, fees, and building permits. To add to the damage the same government will demand property tax payments on time while so many people are financially and spiritually devastated.
Big corporations will undoubtedly be swooping in right now to buy up damaged or destroyed properties and this will add to the overall suffering.
One impact of this disaster is that it hit the very heart of the Democrat Party's fundraising sources. Liberal Hollywood has been hit hard by the policies of the people they paid to elect and they're already complaining about the failures of Democrat Party rule.
I expect this will lead to a short season of Republican Party successes which in California will be predictably squandered by the disorganized and feckless California Republican Party. Maybe President Trump can guide the CA GOP to success? I think he's more likely to buy Greenland and annex Canada in the next year.
Regardless, there will be a season of political consequences before it's back to corruption as usual in California.
I will pray for them and help where I can.
What I am doing is praying for the 10,000+ families who have lost their homes. The thousands more who lost their businesses. The hundreds of thousands who have gone days without power or water and will go at least two more days before those services even start to be restored.
The death toll is likely to rise over the coming days but the numbers so far are blessedly few compared to the scope of the destruction and how fast the flames moved through the area.
Although I do not care for either Governor Newsom or Mayor Karen Bass I am not happy how they are being blamed for the consequences of decisions that were made years and even decades before they came into power. Yes, they need to own the consequences of their decisions such as cutting the fire department budget while squandering billions of dollars on a homeless problem they encouraged.
Looking at the terrain the first problem is that wooden homes had no business being built in a fire zone. The decision to build in those locations was made decades ago.
I have seen several homes in the news that survived and they were built of concrete and steel or else they were wrapped in fireproof materials.
The issue of fire hydrants running out of water is to me simple. The system was designed to help firefighters put out house fires or building fires. Designing and building a system capable of putting out a World War Two level city-wide firestorm would have been absurdly expensive and sensible people would have never approved of the expense to compensate for what would have seemed an unlikely possibility.
Arson is an issue and the people being arrested so far are either illegal aliens or mentally ill homeless people. Democrat politicians will neither address this aspect of the problem nor will they solve it.
Using the Lahaina, Hawaii fires as an example the truth is that these people in Los Angeles will not see their homes or businesses rebuilt for years to come. Environmental regulations will frustrate rebuilding efforts, the government will inevitably want to charge exorbitant amounts of money for inspections, fees, and building permits. To add to the damage the same government will demand property tax payments on time while so many people are financially and spiritually devastated.
Big corporations will undoubtedly be swooping in right now to buy up damaged or destroyed properties and this will add to the overall suffering.
One impact of this disaster is that it hit the very heart of the Democrat Party's fundraising sources. Liberal Hollywood has been hit hard by the policies of the people they paid to elect and they're already complaining about the failures of Democrat Party rule.
I expect this will lead to a short season of Republican Party successes which in California will be predictably squandered by the disorganized and feckless California Republican Party. Maybe President Trump can guide the CA GOP to success? I think he's more likely to buy Greenland and annex Canada in the next year.
Regardless, there will be a season of political consequences before it's back to corruption as usual in California.
I will pray for them and help where I can.
