The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 01:36 last edited by
@George
I think Newsom did too. They might be telling half-truths. Like the existing reservoirs were in fact full but the additional ones the state was supposed to build and fill never happened.
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I saw a story that firefighters and equipment are leaving Oregon to help out in California.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/08/oregon-sending-crews-help-battle-los-angeles-area-wildfires/
However, an unverified claim states until they are certified by the DOT in Sacramento, they can't proceed. Story doesn't address that.
wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 01:47 last edited by@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that firefighters and equipment are leaving Oregon to help out in California.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/08/oregon-sending-crews-help-battle-los-angeles-area-wildfires/
However, an unverified claim states until they are certified by the DOT in Sacramento, they can't proceed. Story doesn't address that.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 02:10 last edited by
Compare and contrast DeSantis and the management of multiple hurricanes during his time as Governor with Newsome’s management of the fire…
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 03:00 last edited by jon-nyc
Though in fairness, the hurricanes have been Cat 3s and 4s, similar to most years in FL. These LA fires are pretty historic in their scope. Also you see the hurricanes coming with advanced notice including a good idea of their path.
Not that I disagree with the point that CA sucks at this. But still its not a fair comparison.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 15:40 last edited by
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 15:46 last edited by
Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed. When deadly wildfires struck the city two months later, Mayor Karen Bass's administration pulled Crowley's memo from its website.
Crowley wrote to the city's fire commissioners—a five-person board appointed by Bass—on Nov. 18 and asked them to transmit the message to Bass and the city council. The fire department's size, she said, hadn't increased in decades despite significant population growth.
"In many ways, the current staffing, deployment model, and size of the LAFD have not changed since the 1960s," wrote Crowley, who also complained that a spike in emergency calls and a shortage of fire stations had led to longer response times. In 2022, Crowley said, 61 percent of the department's firefighters failed to meet the 4-minute first response time, a national firefighting standard. The National Fire Protection Association, meanwhile, recommends that cities like Los Angeles employ some 1.51 to 1.81 firefighters per 1,000 residents. But Los Angeles, Crowley wrote, only staffs 0.91 firefighters per 1,000 people.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 15:56 last edited by
No doubt it’s a problem generally but I wonder if the fast exhaustion of water made that irrelevant. In other words maybe water was the limiting factor rather than manpower.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 16:39 last edited by
I get that it’s comedy but she lives there.
True story - she has a Netflix series coming up that features the beauty and culture of SoCal. She’s asked them to postpone the launch.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 17:39 last edited by
Is it called New Glenn? (rimshot)
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 17:39 last edited by
@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
Is Newsom trying out for a sign language interpreter job? I've never see someone use their hands so much when speaking.
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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
Is Newsom trying out for a sign language interpreter job? I've never see someone use their hands so much when speaking.
wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 20:43 last edited by@89th said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I've never see someone use their hands so much when speaking.
Where tf have you been?
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wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 13:45 last edited by
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wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 13:47 last edited by
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
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wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 13:55 last edited by
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I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 14:06 last edited by@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
Again, I’m going to go back to something I said during the hurricanes… It’s not FEMA or the Federal Government’s role to replace insurance.
Now, evidently it is California’s government’s place to replace insurance with the FAIR plan, and while I am sure that it will get bailed out by the Federal Government, at least the optics are correct. That’s all I can hope for these days.
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I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 14:12 last edited by@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
North Carolina or Florida?
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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
North Carolina or Florida?
wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 14:18 last edited by@Jolly said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
North Carolina or Florida?
Or anyone, anywhere else that might have had some bad luck.
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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
Again, I’m going to go back to something I said during the hurricanes… It’s not FEMA or the Federal Government’s role to replace insurance.
Now, evidently it is California’s government’s place to replace insurance with the FAIR plan, and while I am sure that it will get bailed out by the Federal Government, at least the optics are correct. That’s all I can hope for these days.
wrote on 14 Jan 2025, 14:19 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
Again, I’m going to go back to something I said during the hurricanes… It’s not FEMA or the Federal Government’s role to replace insurance.
Now, evidently it is California’s government’s place to replace insurance with the FAIR plan, and while I am sure that it will get bailed out by the Federal Government, at least the optics are correct. That’s all I can hope for these days.
In my lifetime...
Used to be, if you were living on the Gulf Coast water's edge, it was a camp, or if in a place with nice beaches, it was single story cinderblock motel or a cheaper bungalow home. Then, came
. And really nice homes. And condos. Even with the crappy beaches, you started to see $100k and then $200k camps.Because insurance companies would write the policies.
Some of this insurance problem is a problem of our own making.
