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Sonny Lopez's avatar

"I was scared shitless that my trees were going to fall and level my house, with me in it. I’m assuming this is what it feels like to be in a hurricane." That's about it. My parents' house was taken out by trees, not flooding, in Katrina. Glad you made it through.

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Myriad Mike's avatar

Glad to hear you are okay Dave. I looked at the map, and felt comfortable knowing your place wasn't in the current path, but with wicked winds, one never knows for sure.

This is certainly a horrific set of circumstances, a conflagration of all things bad, all at once, creating a nearly impossible task of defeating it. I do wonder about the eventual political fall-out.

Between (based on what I've read and heard) the cancelled home owner's fire coverage for insurance because of California price caps, the failure to mitigate the fuel of dead grass, brush, and trees, the defunding and DEI'ing of the fire department, the absent mayor, the problems with the water: pressure and availability, and the long standing issues with California policies that reportedly, have always made this an inevitability, PLUS, the fact the many important, wealthy, well known people have lost their homes... Does anything happen, or change, because of all of this!?

Moreover- Seriously, how many more problems does The Golden State NEED, before the residents have had enough already? It appears to be an industry leader in institutional, systemic, and inherent problems that NEVER get solved, and only ever get worse! (all while everything gets more and more expensive at the same time)

Because if this isn't an impetus for some real change out there... well, I just don't know what happens then.

Cheers!

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