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https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-gov-newsom-orders-independent-investigation-after-hydrants-run-dry-we-need-answers Apparently Newsome is a right wing extremist now. Seriously though if you can't see how messed up this situation is and how no one is in charge of the actual job they are paid to do you are not being honest. The top 3 fire people don't know how to fight fires, the lady in charge of the water doesn't know how it works, and no one has a plan to stop it. I just heard that the damage from this fire is more than the total insurance reserves for the entire state currently held, which means a lot of companies are simply going to declare bankruptcy if true.

I appreciate that info, the second part was not in the article I read and obviously is a big deal.

Wrong again https://homeless.lacounty.gov/2022-2023-budget/ County funds along with the state funds

My understanding is that this is money the Browns save but his salary cap hit is still the same. I will accept being corrected but it still hurts.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-gov-newsom-orders-independent-investigation-after-hydrants-run-dry-we-need-answers I have been assured on this site that only right wing echo chambers believe the fire hydrant problem was unacceptable. I guess Newsome has been stuck in the echo chamber

I posted the combined stats for Josh and Lamar over the past two years, the difference before the last game of this year was 100 more rushing yards and 4 less turnovers for Lamar and 12 more TDs for Josh over the two years and they have the same victories over the two years. If you voted for LJ last year you have to vote for Josh this year or else you are voting for something other than the players ability to play the game and win games.

I would be very ok with this also, as long as we win. Hopefully one of us is correct.

I expect a close game but when it is a 7 pt Bills lead mid way through the 4th the defense will cause a mistake from Bo and Josh will score once more to make it 2 scores and the victory.

That is by so very the very worst trade in NFL history. They traded away the most valuable thing they had for several years to get a guy who since arriving has been abysmal. He is a PR nightmare, costs a ton of money, and sucks on the field, quite the triple threat to the team

I am missing why the vitriol here is being sent my way and why you are disputing a known fact. The hydrants were unusable because of lack of water, that is not an opinion. As for who has more knowledge of fires in California, I have 90% of Americans beat because my job required it at one time. The only opinion I have is that the State should do more tonight fires before they spread, but other than that I have only stated facts. And to @The Frankish Reich I appreciate the sentiment but don't try to soften me up!

Not ignorance, just what I was certain of personally. Weird that you would call an accurate statement "ignorance". It would be like stating someone who did not personally deal with the 1990s ignorant for not knowing who Bruce Smith is and saying that Rousseau is out best DE since 2005.

Wow, your need to defend idiocy is quite amusing. I can't tell if you are actually a liberal or a Conservative pretending to be the most unhinged version of liberal. California has had fire issues for years, since at least 2008, and has not done enough to fix it. FL in 1998 had horrible fires, we simply did what we must to prevent as many as possible. 1998 FL and 2008 California were similar, but now they are different.

The cost/benefit you speak of doesn't happen because of both ends of the spectrum. Low income people are much more likely to call in a small claim that costs more than their premiums and given the choice insurance companies would not cover low income housing, but the government tells them they must cover so many in each set in order to have access to the profitable people. Truly not sure how to fix it but it is the middle who pays the brunt of these policies

I actually agree with you on the government should be less involved but that is life at this point. Politicians make a lot of situations pay to play if you want to get in the door, so there is a lot of situations were the only person who loses is the common man.

You do realize that the shots don't stop you from transmitting the virus, right?

When you write stuff like this it shows how little you are willing to learn. The vaccine mandate was immoral and unethical, maybe don't blame the people who just wanted to be left alone.

Ok I will go through what I know was requested in 2008 and denied for at least the first few years- some of these could have changed since I have been out of insurance for over a decade. 1- don't build in areas without proper water access.(Part of why I wanted your research on why hydrants failed) 2- do many more controlled burns 3- make fire breaks much more often. 4- clear brush more aggressively 5- make concerted effort to replace plants with "less flammable" varieties 6- there were also suggestions about building code and material improvements, but some of those were followed. 7- there were also suggestions on how to deploy the firefighters and other responders. There was another other points but I don't remember them. Florida had enacted much of what was suggested and improved our fire situation drastically.

They had more rain in 2022-2024 than any 2 year period in quite a while, so why did they not make more effort to retain it? https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13a.php

If you can explain how they ran out of water for the hydrants I will have a further conversation- most of what I know is boring but I will explain it anyways.

You seem to be having a mental breakdown with no coherent thoughts. I am sorry I am more aware of what California does not do to prevent fires but since I am not sure what started this fire and why it blazed so fast there is no point in discussing it with you. You are committed to this and I don't care enough to educate you.

Several of the larger companies have already broke off their Cali business into its own company so I doubt too much weirdness occurs from them but for the smaller companies I would not be surprised if their reserves don't have depth needed to survive this and that is when the state will get involved and the state won't give the little guy a bailout without the big guy getting their cut

Fires are a fact of life, and sometimes they happen even with intelligent prevention. I will say California has not done enough to prevent fires and then respond. They ran out of water for the hydrants for Pete sake and they lose a larger percent of the state annually than most states lose in a decade. Controlled burns might have prevented this, or at least contained it, that is what has to happen here in FL before fire season. All of that being said State Farm, Allstate, Farmers, Progressive, Liberty Mutual all want California to do certain things to prevent fires and they do not do them.

I worked fire claims near Sacramento in 2008. I understand the fire situation in Cali. Keep calling me stupid but I have discussed it with the people who tried to get the state to do the right thing back in 2008, to no avail. As for how much money they have spent, spending it improperly does not do any good. Your not having an opinion on whether it is enough, which is the only standard that matters, is all I need to know you have no clue.

What is this supposed to show? I have stated multiple times that 10% of these fires are unavoidable but there is a reason by Cali had a higher percent of its state burn in one year than CO has had burn in the past 22 com ined.

You seem to think a brush fire is harder to prevent than a forest fire. Brush fires should be very rare where they get out of hand. There is a reason that you never hear about other well populated areas catching on fire every few years.