Well All My Gear May Be Destroyed...

[311boogieman]

Haaa...I have no idea, I think he was banned??? I'm open to contrary ideas, but he really embarrassed himself in this thread in the weeks following the fire (as did a few others). I wonder how he's feeling now that the negligent water drainage has been long confirmed and that arson is the cause of the fires.

Pretty sure he is still here, just under a different user name so maybe he'll chime in

But yeah, lightening, arson, lithium batteries, forest mgmt, dry spells, etc. can all be factors

 

[harddriver]

Sorry to rehash this discussion, but for those of you that were quite certain that "climate change" was the primary culprit here:



Also, for those of you who described the grossly incompetent draining of the Palisades reserve water reservoir as a "conspiracy theory":



crime + incompetence = serious problems...and neither are "political" issues.

 

[harddriver]

Haaa...I have no idea, I think he was banned??? I'm open to contrary ideas, but he really embarrassed himself in this thread in the weeks following the fire (as did a few others). I wonder how he's feeling now that the negligent water drainage has been long confirmed and that arson is the cause of the fires.

Adam Corolla has been tracking progress and he has been saying there has not been much construction due to new requirements being placed on the residents that they cannot afford to rebuild due to the exorbitant costs especially the beach homes or home close to the beach. Almost like they don't want people to rebuild and the land can then be bought for pennies on the dollar.........now who wants alot of beach front property........

 

[harddriver]

Pretty sure he is still here, just under a different user name so maybe he'll chime in

But yeah, lightening, arson, lithium batteries, forest mgmt, dry spells, etc. can all be factors

It has been well known and well documented that California has been shirking it's forest management and water resource management for quite some time and on top of that then allowed the few insurers to leave residents without adequate or no insurance coverage going into the crisis. The incompetence knows no bounds.........I could be wrong I would venture to guess all the 1% wealthy private equity MF"ers that had homes in the area had insurance and are probably getting permits to rebuild with no delays........Just a hunch.

The insurers were wanting to jack up rates because they knew that the risks had been exacerbated by all this mismanagement and didn't want to be caught holding the bag for the states incompetence.

Now don't get me wrong insurance companies have a pretty horrible track records screwing people as well but this issue did not creep up on people. They had huge fires up in Northern California San Francisco area years ago in 2014 and actually passed new water management resource laws and almost none of that was actually put into action even thought he taxpayers voted it in and funded it. Meanwhile Cali continues to burn and now people can't get insurance at any price and the insurance they can get sucks.

In 2014, California voters passed Proposition 1, a bond measure that included
$2.7 billion specifically for water storage projects. The ballot measure was passed to fund water infrastructure, though the allocation was not a direct response to the 2014 fires, but rather addressed statewide water concerns.

Here's a breakdown of the water bond measure:

• Total bond amount: The full bond measure, titled the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, authorized the sale of a total of $7.5 billion in general obligation bonds.
• Water storage allocation: The $2.7 billion portion for water storage was designated for the Water Storage Investment Program, intended to fund large-scale projects, including new reservoirs.
• Progress on storage projects: Water storage projects have been slow to get off the ground due to long lead times. As of late 2024, none of the voter-approved projects had been completed, though most of the funding had been earmarked for seven qualifying projects. The Sites Reservoir, one of the major projects, is not expected to be operational until 2033.

 

[angelspade]

It has been well known and well documented that California has been shirking it's forest management and water resource management for quite some time and on top of that then allowed the few insurers to leave residents without adequate or no insurance coverage going into the crisis. The incompetence knows no bounds.........I could be wrong I would venture to guess all the 1% wealthy private equity MF"ers that had homes in the area had insurance and are probably getting permits to rebuild with no delays........Just a hunch.

The insurers were wanting to jack up rates because they knew that the risks had been exacerbated by all this mismanagement and didn't want to be caught holding the bag for the states incompetence.

Now don't get me wrong insurance companies have a pretty horrible track records screwing people as well but this issue did not creep up on people. They had huge fires up in Northern California San Francisco area years ago in 2014 and actually passed new water management resource laws and almost none of that was actually put into action even thought he taxpayers voted it in and funded it. Meanwhile Cali continues to burn and now people can't get insurance at any price and the insurance they can get sucks.

In 2014, California voters passed Proposition 1, a bond measure that included
$2.7 billion specifically for water storage projects. The ballot measure was passed to fund water infrastructure, though the allocation was not a direct response to the 2014 fires, but rather addressed statewide water concerns.

Here's a breakdown of the water bond measure:

• Total bond amount: The full bond measure, titled the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, authorized the sale of a total of $7.5 billion in general obligation bonds.
• Water storage allocation: The $2.7 billion portion for water storage was designated for the Water Storage Investment Program, intended to fund large-scale projects, including new reservoirs.
• Progress on storage projects: Water storage projects have been slow to get off the ground due to long lead times. As of late 2024, none of the voter-approved projects had been completed, though most of the funding had been earmarked for seven qualifying projects. The Sites Reservoir, one of the major projects, is not expected to be operational until 2033.

Interesting stuff, I appreciate you posting this.