News Pacific Palisades fire in LA

[FyrFytr998]

They say when winds are too strong, they can't use helicopters or planes, but someone super rich needs to make some super duper helicopter with giant water tank and pressure spray. There has to be a solution. Bury power lines? Some sort of sprinkler to spray a wall of water up and recycle it to spray it back up again and again?

Recently when the news had some wildfire warning and told people not to BBQ due to strong winds, neighbor BBQ'd.

Or the government can stop interfering with water rights and uses and stop billionaires from buying up all the reservoir lands for their companies to use the water.

 

[FyrFytr998]

Been going on for a while, similar to Florida hurricane insurance

Policygenius

California insurers paid a record $15.4 billion in losses in 2017 and $13.6 billion in 2018 due to what were by far the two most destructive wildfire seasons in state history. To put these numbers into context, annual losses never once eclipsed $5 billion prior to 2017, and have yet to exceed that amount since 2018. [1]

It was not profitable and too risky to cover.

It should be up to the residents to pay extra to live in these risky areas/the state to mitigate risks/ residents to accept the risk.

Insurance has and always will be a scam. Once something bites into the profits, it gets dropped real quick from coverage.

On a side note, wild fires had been natures way of renewal for thousands of years before human settlements. Once we stopped this process for our own needs without properly managing the fuel sources that feed these fires, well……here we are.

 

[chardog]

Insurance has and always will be a scam. Once something bites into the profits, it gets dropped real quick from coverage.

On a side note, wild fires had been natures way of renewal for thousands of years before human settlements. Once we stopped this process for our own needs without properly managing the fuel sources that feed these fires, well……here we are.

right, watch them crawl back as saviors when there is nothing left to burn, only to leave again in a decade. They make the money for decades and happy to take that money when times are good.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Y'know when a country or state has a lot of some disaster, they usually get pretty good at dealing with it.

Want to know how to prepare for a typhoon? Ask the Japanese. Want to know how to prepare for a tornado? Ask Kansas.

You would think since California has so many fires every fucking year, that they'd be really good at dealing with them.

What a shit show.

The hypocrisy... That's the worst part

 

[FyrFytr998]

I have always been of a mind that there should be a program in place where states with heavy snow find a way to collect it melt it and ship it to places that experience wild fires. Doesn’t matter if the water is salty or not if it’s used on a fire. And if salt is an issue, set up a desalination program.

Probably one of the few times I’d love for the Feds to intervene in state politics and let the US Forest Service handle it.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I have always been of a mind that there should be a program in place where states with heavy snow find a way to collect it melt it and ship it to places that experience wild fires. Doesn’t matter if the water is salty or not if it’s used on a fire. And if salt is an issue, set up a desalination program.

Probably one of the few times I’d love for the Feds to intervene in state politics and let the US Forest Service handle it.

I think fires aren't usually that big of a problem in winter, so nobody thought to do this before.

Also, in this case they're right by the ocean so they could use that water if they had a way to collect and move it.

They could do it now with helicopters and planes but I'm hearing the winds were too strong to fly.

 

[FyrFytr998]

I think fires aren't usually that big of a problem in winter, so nobody thought to do this before.

Also, in this case they're right by the ocean so they could use that water if they had a way to collect and move it.

They could do it now with helicopters and planes but I'm hearing the winds were too strong to fly.

I was thinking more cisterns in these forest areas that the fire crews could draft from. I was hearing a story about how Newsome was supposed to fill in some basins for fire protection and failed to do so as well.

I know a whole water system with pumps and pipes would be too impactful to the environment of the forest. But clearing out a few patches to drop some underground tanks seems friendlier.

It’s absolutely insane that FF’s have NO water to do their job due to Govt. incompetence. Especially in an urban and suburban setting with water mains.

 

[Richmma80]

Some illegals started the fire so they could rob some expensive houses

 

[RoastBeast]

I think fires aren't usually that big of a problem in winter, so nobody thought to do this before.

Also, in this case they're right by the ocean so they could use that water if they had a way to collect and move it.

They could do it now with helicopters and planes but I'm hearing the winds were too strong to fly.

Would have been a great time for the government to unveil their gravity manipulating crafts to the world.

 

[FyrFytr998]

Would have been a great time for the government to unveil their gravity manipulating crafts to the world.

Water drones.

 

[PBAC]

Some section of LA already has.

Pumping out of the ocean seems like a worthy idea, however there's not a single means to do it with any noteworthy volume without the means to transport the water to a wildfire.

Wouldnt þhat basicay salt the earth?

 

[chardog]

Wouldnt þhat basicay salt the earth?

yes, however if you can keep it to the perimeter of the fire where the roads hit the homes, I dont see the issue with that. The rest of the forest can burn naturally.

of course this is all water under the bridge at this point, the destruction has already been done, neighborhoods lost.

 

[Berserker13]

Has it slowed down yet?

 

[Osculater]

Has it slowed down yet?

BRB, I'm going to ask God

 

[Berserker13]

BRB, I'm going to ask God

They mocked him at the golden globes... now look

 

[Berserker13]

Hollywood is moving to Vegas

 

[Osculater]

They mocked him at the golden globes... now look

They never learn