LA Wildfires

ronib

Imagine being the Mayor and Governor who had in place firefighting policies which resulted in this tragedy. Also the environmentalists….. and so it goes on.

why blame environmentalists? Or do you think that the warnings about global warning are the cause? Strange.

Smelt HPQ more important than people!

ronib

Smelt HPQ more important than people!

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That is way better.

HousePlantQueen

ronib

Smelt HPQ more important than people!

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It's an initiative to preserve stocks of an endangered fish species. It's taking place in northern California and has no connection with the water supplies needed for fighting the Los Angeles fires. ronib is channeling Trump here, he's been making an issue of this for a long time. Just search on 'Trump smelt'

www.vox.com/down-to-earth/394283/los-angeles-wildfires-trump-newsom-delta-smelt

Louella12

To be fair though, Trump has been banging on about this for a long time.

However, many of the affected celebrities have been voicing their disapproval on X.

So not just Trump.

News channels were saying how these celebrities were fleeing for their lives, I feel heartbroken for them but I feel sorry for the normal “Joe Bloggs”, most of these celebrities probably have other homes to move into but these ordinary folks are going to be homeless.

Ah, I didn't know about the fish. As for googling "Trump Smelt".....could be risky if the rumours are true....so I may give that a miss, thanks.!

Had to do some granny jobs

HousePlantQueen

Ah, I didn't know about the fish. As for googling "Trump Smelt".....could be risky if the rumours are true....so I may give that a miss, thanks.!

Well, that's what I did and the first results were all about Trump and the endangered fish

I don't use google as my search engine, though...

It appears Harry'n'Meghan went to Pasadena to offer consolation to those who lost everything in the fires. Good thing they remembered to take their photographer with them.

I would not want a home, however good the view etc if it had history of fires. Can't see how any company would offer insurance on them.
Over here they build on blood plains, every year certain homes and areas get flooded. How do builders get permission. There's too many people needing homes. This country needs to dance the oroblems it's causing. Where are people supposed to live? The devastation caused to families must cause such trauma, they get verged up which can take over a year and within months it's happened again.
It's always sticking a plaster over a problem then it's panic stations,

mae13

It appears Harry'n'Meghan went to Pasadena to offer consolation to those who lost everything in the fires. Good thing they remembered to take their photographer with them.

I’ve just been looking at a clip of that.

Hugs from them both, particularly Meghan.

Shades of a ‘royal disaster visit’.

Mt61

Louella12

To be fair though, Trump has been banging on about this for a long time.

However, many of the affected celebrities have been voicing their disapproval on X.

So not just Trump.

News channels were saying how these celebrities were fleeing for their lives, I feel heartbroken for them but I feel sorry for the normal “Joe Bloggs”, most of these celebrities probably have other homes to move into but these ordinary folks are going to be homeless.

Also a lot of the huge mansions would have had servants who will now be homeless and jobless.

Re building on areas likely to flood.

I was looking at how many homes the area I live in is supposed to be building.

Twice as many as are currently being built.

We suffer from flooding in many areas already. Cannot imagine where some proposed properties will go, but there will be problems.

Mt61

Imagine being the person that’s had the back yard fire & that’s the end result!

There is only one news outlet that is claiming this fire started in a back yard and that’s the Daily Mail. 🤷‍♀️

This is a very good piece on why/how California has a water problem.

www.springwellwater.com/cause-of-california-water-crisis/#:~:text=%2C%20farms%2C%20etc.-,Unsustainable%20Groundwater%20Pumping,portion%20of%20its%20water%20supply.

Thanks for the link Petra

Absolutely maybee70, I didn’t recon on service staff 😩

The footage I saw yesterday of people going back to their homes was harrowing.

However, they were all saying they could rebuild and have their homes back bigger and better in a short time. They seemed very confident, but maybe it was shock?

I found this very difficult to understand, unless they are going to build in brick with distance between houses.

A lot of work to be done here. I would hate to be in the US right now- what a mess!

petra

This is a very good piece on why/how California has a water problem.

www.springwellwater.com/cause-of-california-water-crisis/#:~:text=%2C%20farms%2C%20etc.-,Unsustainable%20Groundwater%20Pumping,portion%20of%20its%20water%20supply.

I heard that on one of the American news stations & btw, I don’t read the Daily Mail

Mt61

Absolutely maybee70, I didn’t recon on service staff 😩

Reckon on service staff (no glasses 🙄)

California is in an earthquake zone so wood is preferred building material as houses collapse easily when badly shaken. Also wood in plentiful supply in USA and cheap.
Something of a problem all in all ?

When they interviewed the Gold medalist swimmer, who lost his home, he said that 70% of people in his area did not have insurance..
How will people be able to afford to live in temporary accommodation, possibly unable to work because the fire has destroyed their workplace and afford to rebuild?

Also they will have lost their computers and paper documents.. not to mention clothes and cars.. How on earth do they start rebuilding their lives..

Mt61 good sales pitch for home filtration products but no mention of any need for reservoirs. Interesting.

pascal30 remortgage might be one option? Buy a kit home is another? Government initiatives to help rebuild homes?