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I live in California and I have been hearing accounts from people who had to evacuate, from those who were prepared to evacuate (and we had a ‘go bag’ packed) and some people are in a bad place right now. The fires are still going on and while the winds for now are not strong, there are warnings that they might be.
That said this was a manageable disaster that became catastrophic for a number of reasons.
The leading reasons are environmental. California’s Democrat majority refused to conduct basic forestry management and maintain water supplies because of their radical environmental ideology. Its identity politics led to incompetence at every level of city management including at the Los Angeles Fire Department. And its monopolistic energy utilities and tolerance for homeless encampments may have started the fires.
There’s …
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