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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]
Indeed, the waste of resources is jaw dropping.[/quote]

With the budget surplus they could have been burying power lines, but I guess there were more important priorities to squander the money.[/quote]

The cost and time required to bury overhead lines in settled areas would far exceed any budget surplus, plus it isn’t going to come from state funds.

I live in a different western state where some neighborhoods have buried lines and most do not. Our city utility provider began burying lines in the early 2000s and abandoned the effort in our specific neighborhood after completing just two streets due to the infrastructure challenges they encountered.  In other neighborhoods it is moving along but definitely not quickly- it’s literally a decades-long, patchwork effort. It would probably take a century to bury the lines just in Pacific Palisades. [/quote]

With the sheer devastation in the area, Pacific Palisades will be rebuilt with buried lines. I expect the area to look a lot different after this. The city has the opportunity to remake an entire urban area near the beach. It's not going to be a low-density sprawling bedroom community again. [/quote]

I’m the Pp you’re replying to and I agree, lines will be buried where areas have been leveled- that’s the easy part. My point was that the PPs saying that lines should have been buried in existing neighborhoods are naive about how challenging and expensive it is.[/quote]

How expensive will be rebuilding entire towns and neighborhoods? It should have been a priority and it wasn't. There's no excuse for misplaced priorities anymore and the residents should be fed up. I used to live in LA County and got the hell out because I couldn't take it anymore.[/quote]

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