Palisades Fire - Los Angeles

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Anonymous wrote:These homes start at $2.5M and go up rapidly from there. I bet most of these folks were self-insured.

This represents a huge, extremely wealthy chunk of the Los Angeles county tax base. Lots of families with young kids. It's as if a wild fire completely destroyed CCMD and adjacent neighborhoods in upper NW DC.

This disaster will upend Los Angeles's budget - lots of costs to clean up but also lots of these people will move away. It will only be partially rebuilt, likely with multi-family housing. The entire area will be rebuilt much differently.

Californian here. I think it’s entirely possible that the state turns deep red politically. There is already a lot of anger at the left simmering under the surface.

This is your wet dream isn't it. Blame the left for everything that has happened there including natural disasters.

It's naive to think certain decisions and policies didn't make this situation much worse than it could have been. They knew damn well the risks of wild fires and did little to prevent them.

Californian here:

Uh, what? California spent nearly $3B on fire mitigation in 2023 and spent another $4B from the Feds.

People should be angry at themselves for building in a place that is not hospitable to homes. Southern California is literally grasslands-desert.

How much more should California spend? At a certain point, this is a matter of personal responsibility.

NP- I don't get this. These are well-established neighborhoods, over 100 years old. Many folks have been there for decades, normal MC people. What are they supposed to do? Are you welcoming them in your DC mansion?

Climate change doesn't care about your feelings or your socioeconomic class. It comes for everything.

Pacific Palisades was NOT a fire prone area in 100 years ago. Now? It is a fire prone area. That's nature kicking butts without apologies. And there's not much that could've been done aside from eminent domain and razing the homes.

But I'm sure you and all the Pacific Palisades residents would not have a hissy fit over that...

Californian here. You are wildly ignorant. Pacific Palisades has been fire prone since I was a SoCal child.

+1. Another longtime SoCal resident confirming.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the pits. I am sitting here looking at the roof from my neighbor's house strewn all over my back yard and front drive and roof and all the trees down in the neighborhood and the enormous smoke cloud approaching from Altadena.

And you guys as usual are talking about politics.

What a bunch of enormous arses. ARSES.

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Your neighborhood is burning and you’re on DCUM. That’s odd.

NP I don't think it's odd at all. When a natural disaster hits my area or is impending and there's nothing left to do but wait and see, not much to do but worry and be online.

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A controlled burn wouldn't stop the Palisades fire. It started in someone's backyard. And then the crazy winds took over.

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Adam Brody and Leighton Meester lost their home. I guess I don't worry too much about wealthy celebrities who can always rebuild or buy elsewhere, but it must be a little traumatizing to lose your home. Hope people are being evacuated safely, and the regular folks will be able to recover from the massive financial hit.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the pits. I am sitting here looking at the roof from my neighbor's house strewn all over my back yard and front drive and roof and all the trees down in the neighborhood and the enormous smoke cloud approaching from Altadena.

And you guys as usual are talking about politics.

What a bunch of enormous arses. ARSES.

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Your neighborhood is burning and you’re on DCUM. That’s odd.

NP I don't think it's odd at all. When a natural disaster hits my area or is impending and there's nothing left to do but wait and see, not much to do but worry and be online.

You could be preparing to evacuate, figuring out where you're going, checking road conditions. A helpful list of what to pack was posted previously. Being on here would be a low priority. My friends lost their homes and are figuring out longer term accommodations. If you're that close you seriously have bigger problems to consider.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is accurate, but a celebrity whose mansion burned down claimed that many had no insurance because they had been dropped recently by a big insurer.

It's true that insurers have been dropping people, but there is a plan called FAIR that you can get when everyone else has dropped you. My dad got it for his house in Northern CA when Farmers dropped him. It's not cheap but these celebrities probably chose to self insure instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Why are they allowing this to happen?

it is a force of nature - we're having a wind storm of some magnitude its not a case of "allowing" anything

could you explain how you might not "allow" an earthquake, or a tsunami?

Maui was a force of nature to, huh?

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How much did Mayor Karen Bass cut from fire fund?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Why are they allowing this to happen?

I swear to God some of you are still drunk from NYE and the snow days.

This reminds me of a few years back, when Trump (then Prez) blamed the people of CA for all of the destruction that the wildfires caused.

He actually said it was the residents of CA’s fault that there were so many wildfires!! 🤦🏼
He claimed that CA residents were not keeping their “floors”/grounds swept + raked properly (like the folks in Greenland did!) and he even spoke of withholding emergency monies because of it!
Of course - it was all part of his power trip (the guys LOVES power + control!)

Personally he was just butt hurt that CA didn’t vote for him.
But to the PP >> how can you say such an insensitive remark when so many people lose their lives & homes??

You care nothing about the people losing their homes and who are in frightening situations. Your post is purely to knock Trump and I am not even a Trump supporter.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Why are they allowing this to happen?

Omg go back to school!

No one is letting this happen. You utterly stupid sub human.

People are dying and losing their homes because of climate change you idiot. And no one can stop that toe of fire,

DP- go back to school? Which class did you learn about the spread of CA wildfires in? I grew up in Fairfax and this was never covered.

It was but you were smoking pot in the courtyard with the goths.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the pits. I am sitting here looking at the roof from my neighbor's house strewn all over my back yard and front drive and roof and all the trees down in the neighborhood and the enormous smoke cloud approaching from Altadena.

And you guys as usual are talking about politics.

What a bunch of enormous arses. ARSES.

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Your neighborhood is burning and you’re on DCUM. That’s odd.

NP I don't think it's odd at all. When a natural disaster hits my area or is impending and there's nothing left to do but wait and see, not much to do but worry and be online.

But why would you want to be online on a regional forum thousands of miles away where most residents are unfamiliar with your plight?

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Anonymous wrote:Adam Brody and Leighton Meester lost their home. I guess I don't worry too much about wealthy celebrities who can always rebuild or buy elsewhere, but it must be a little traumatizing to lose your home. Hope people are being evacuated safely, and the regular folks will be able to recover from the massive financial hit.

Who are they?

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Anonymous wrote:These homes start at $2.5M and go up rapidly from there. I bet most of these folks were self-insured.

This represents a huge, extremely wealthy chunk of the Los Angeles county tax base. Lots of families with young kids. It's as if a wild fire completely destroyed CCMD and adjacent neighborhoods in upper NW DC.

This disaster will upend Los Angeles's budget - lots of costs to clean up but also lots of these people will move away. It will only be partially rebuilt, likely with multi-family housing. The entire area will be rebuilt much differently.

Throw in Prop 13 with its limits on property tax increases ---

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Anonymous wrote:Adam Brody and Leighton Meester lost their home. I guess I don't worry too much about wealthy celebrities who can always rebuild or buy elsewhere, but it must be a little traumatizing to lose your home. Hope people are being evacuated safely, and the regular folks will be able to recover from the massive financial hit.

Who are they?

Crawl out from under your rock

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the pits. I am sitting here looking at the roof from my neighbor's house strewn all over my back yard and front drive and roof and all the trees down in the neighborhood and the enormous smoke cloud approaching from Altadena.

And you guys as usual are talking about politics.

What a bunch of enormous arses. ARSES.

Can do nothing but wish you the best and hope that your house escapes the fire.