That was their goal. Corrupt governments always have the same motives. Create a crisis, then get more tax money to fix crisis, then never solve crisis and make it worse. Watch the next time they promote on fixing homelessness. They will brag about spending more money than last time. Same pattern over and over.
Been homeless since 2018 in my car, the only government employees I've ever had contact with are police officers, usually there to harass me. Idk wtf you're paying for but I rather doubt any fraction of it is going where you think it will.
Geo Experts: We Too. Scientists: me too Neighbor States: Yeah, me too. Citizens: Here's a List of me Knowing this would happen, but the Government is more Focused on something else.
Had a thought come through. I haven’t heard anyone mention this. When is the Olympics in LA? 2028 ? Clearing up the land? Yes, sounds like conspiracy, time will show, but maybe this explains why governors act the way they do about this.
@@dima-9646 Brother burning down all of Socal to clear space for a stadium is an absolutely insane conspiracy theory. Especially when there are already several stadiums there as well as the Rams stadium that was built like less than 5 years ago.
When you redirect water away from the city for years, refuse to build reservoirs for a decade, insurance companies canceling policies WEEKS before major fires, focusing on DEI, reducing the budget by millions, passing legislation to prohibit the removal of old debris, etc. it’s no wonder each year there’s more and more fires. It’s so sad to see.
Those insurance companies for sure are getting really good ai information these days, literally saw this coming, it was gonna happen Eventually due to mismanagement but by 2 weeks is crazy (unless you want to be believe some of the theories out their)
apparently it all started when the dollar got off the gold standard, and then they made it backed by oil. they could devalue the currency as much as they wanted. and then after transferring billions/trillions to elites and wasting the rest of it on pointless crap (like wars in other countries and "wahman empowerment", equality, dei, anti-racism, environmentalism, etc), there was no money left for the people they are supposed to represent and unimportant stuff like maintaining infrastructure :/
To be fair they had news last year about White Firemen being abundant and that was an issue cause apparently they need to be more inclusive so the budget cut happened and most of that was allocated to programs to hire non white firemen and women regardless of the standards to be fair today it's not like they had a chance to take action thanks to there being no water so we'll never know if they were actually worth investing on either.
@@rebeltheharem7028Ten thousand homes times an average of five family members is effectively at least 50,000 people that lost their homes. Hopefully Trump will do something. But no more democrats in our state incoming 2026.
Remember when trump told CA they needed to clear up the brush and forests and Gavin Newsome went tf off yelling saying he needed to mind his business and not tell CA what to do? Ironic isn't it
People are saying they've seen arsonists. Up here in canada a bunch of climate wackos got arrested for starting forest fires because they wanted to blame the fires on climate change.
Won't happen, Trump would step in and make sure natural citizens have home rights first, and it would be in his power to do so, as long as the individuals only get support in homesteading.
I hate how, whenever a massive fire happens in CA, the mainstream media or journalists refuse to demand answers for "what could have been done to prevent it from happening." It's always about pointing fingers of who's not helping in the moment or afterwards. This shit happens everywhere. Why does it seem we've become less competent at dealing with a reoccurring annual event?
the issue is home prices and land developers building where they shouldnt. People have money and want houses and there is no room out there. Hence a house that anywhere else would cost 400k costing 10 mil. There is an INSANE demand out there, enough to make people build in areas they shouldnt.
California: *Fails at land maintenance and wildfire prevention* California: *Fails at water management and firefighting readiness* Insurance companies: *Pulls out of offering fire insurance because they exist to cover house fires not catastrophic city-wide destruction* California: "IS THIS CORPORATE GREED????????"
Hot take, but If I ran an insurance company and the state know for forest fires won't let me increase rates while simultaneously cutting their fire department budget, not securing reserves of water and not proactively clearing forest to prevent fires, I'd leave to
Who could have predicted this when the city defunded the fire department, wouldn’t allow the cleaning of forest debris; and refused to refill the water supply??? Such a unforeseen tragedy, hopefully the insurance companies don’t cancel fire insurance, right?
Many of insurance companies removed the fire from insurance plans in areas which are prone to fires. Many of these burnt homes hasn't beed insured for fire/
@@JulioCezar-we9zo Insurance companies will go under when faced with 10000 claims in one week. I doubt they are prepared for what happened (and is still happening).
@@wombatilloI lately heard an conversation with an insurance company CEO here in Germany (we have 800+ insurance companies here) they had 3 years ago around 750 billion saved for unforeseen things. This did shrink while Corona and new citizens from abroad wich get full healthcare the first day a few 100 billion. With few I mean they are alarmed because it gets less. But I think if a fire insurance work as intended they maybe have more than enough for the houses.
and also when they pushed for diversity and disrupting unions because firefighters were pretty much 100% white male and therefore their unions were stronger
Fun history: The Spanish knew they were sailing on course and were off the coast of California because "they could follow the wild brush fires up the coast" California has always been extremely vulnerable to massive brush fires.
Blaming "climate change" for wild fires is so smooth brained. That's like having your store robbed for $850 worth of merchandise and blaming slavery. If you're going to build thousands of multimillion dollar homes literally feet from each other, in a naturally arid climate, and then defund the fire department, donate "surplus" fire fighting equipment to Ukraine, and veto a plan to divert desperately needed water because of fish, this became an inevitably. Not to mention that California is the highest taxed state in the country and almost none of that was invested into maintenance of brush, and forests, even though the state's leadership has been warned for years that if they didn't maintain their brush that this exact tragedy was just a matter of time. Other countries have this exact same climate, and even more flammable flora, and they don't burn multiple times a year, because they invest in the maintenance of their country. I'm a Liberal, and even I thought it was absurd that when Trump suggested that California start to invest more in environmental maintenance, Democrats chastised him. "What do you want us to do? Go and rake the forest floors?". I guess we can all see who was right on that issue.
The mayor only controls the LAFD budget, LAFD wouldn’t have been responsible for these wildfires anyways, wildfires are supposed to be dealt with by Cal-fire with municipal departments lending manpower if they need it. The areas currently affected are also not under the jurisdiction of the LAFD but probably LA county fire.
Karen Bass said her "number one priority is DEI". Well look at that shit. Her city is literally burning to the ground. I hope the firefighters saving lives are diverse enough 🙄
They recently posted that the new FireChief that's running the operation on all these fires is a WOMEN. Not picking someone who has a record that can lead large squads they picked because of her GENDER over record. She has nothing to her record that's saying she's the right person to battle these fires.
After seeing this, it seems to me like the insurance companies were right to cancel their policies. Why would a business operate in an area where it’s guaranteed that wildfires, which happen every year, are guaranteed to destroy countless homes? Disaster insurance isn’t meant to be routinely needed. People who complain about this expect there to be no cost for rebuilding their homes caused by wildfires made worse by the policies of the politicians they vote for repeatedly. If you can’t afford to live where fires could destroy your home at any time, you shouldn’t live there.
I was at a Forestry conference during the 2003 San Diego Fire, and the USDA Forest Service data pointed out that fires confinement effort (mainly controlling fuel build up in forest understory) had been made after the 1930's fire and major fires almost disappear in the region from 1930 to 1970. Then housing booming in 70's lead to municipal regulation to go against fire confinement policies (distances between homes, maintain canopy cover between houses ....). Then major fire occurs in the area in 1978, 1982, 1985, 1993, 2003... No climate change involve just bad policies.
Cool to hear from someone who actually went to the conference it may be my anecdotal experience, but San Diego has been much better about controlled burns since the Witch Creek fire in 2003.
"the government should be in charge of insurance and helping people in need." continues to watch video full of the government failing people when in need.
Seriously, who thinks the DMV is run efficiently? Same people would run government insurance. And guess who would pay out for high-risk losses? You, the taxpayer.
people have been saying to clean the woods for a decade but environmentalist said no leave the trees alone and the governor say ok for a decade. this time is not the insurance companies fault. 28:55 the worse part about the twitter people is they are happy then expansive houses are getting destroyed, wait in till they find out about supply and demand. less houses makes each house in LA even more expansive, because they are not expansive enough.
No amount of "forest management" was going to stop a fire in this environment from getting out of control. People seem to fail to grasp how destructive 80mph winds plus humidity below 5% is when it comes to fire. The only way this wasn't going to be bad from that perspective was if the entire Santa Monica mountains were clear cut of all vegetation. A spark in the wind can travel for over a while and catch fire in another location in that environment. I still support forest management though. But in this situation, it's nothing more than a scapegoat.
Don't forget all the water LA would ever need that would flow south from the Northwest being diverted to the Pacific ocean to "save" some little minnow type fish in a lake....
@@Robinhood11B Wouldn't surprise me if they literally didn't do it after the 2018 fires because Trump said they needed to to avoid something like this. Their spite knows no bounds. I could sadly easily see that happening.
Something I notices as an electrical engineer from the UK, is all your electricity supplied via overhead wires? pumping stations wont work without electricity and the overhead wires seem very exposed to failure from fire/wind, not sure if there is any good backup generation system at water plants in California?
Insurance is a gamble. When you vote for policies to make your state a tinder box and bet that it won't catch on fire, don't be surprised when insurance companies don't take that bet.
@@bryanb3352speaking of FEMA. After Katrina, parts of the levees are still under-maintained and there are still places underwater even years after Katrina. You can’t spell Finesse without FEMA 💀💀💀
1.Continually cut firefighter funds 2.Refuse to do preventative burns to remove the fuel for fires. 3.Ignore the fact that insurance companies don’t offer coverage because of the how high the threat is. Watch them blame it on climate change. This is what happens when you run a state based on emotional decisions and catering to woke ideas.
Ironic that Asmon's solution is to give the government more power, after they created the problem in the first place. It's insane to keep doing the same things over and over.
1. We need to stop doing controlled burns and brush clean up because it causes climate change. 2. The increase and intensity of forest fires now are caused by climate change. 3.??? 4. Profit
Watch as I redirect your anger towards private landowners and the federal government. The State of California, manages 3% of California's forests. The rest are owned by the Federal government and private landowners. We will continue to blame climate change for the problems because climate is affecting precipitation. Rainfall continues to decrease every year meaning the land becomes drier and drier. Usually rainfall would help speed up the process of decay and keep the forests moist, but the drier climate has made it more difficult.
I run a water treatment plant for a city, and a MAJOR part of our distribution department is continually testing flow and pressure rates and ratings on our hundreds of fire hydrants for fire protection, BECAUSE the property insurance rates for the entire region depend on it, it's called an ISO Rating. We have some businesses that fail this testing due to whatever factors or the minimums of their carrier, and they've had to build their own small water tower for their sprinkler system to get any insurance coverage. We start having pressure/flow test issues for whatever reason, it can spike everyone's insurance rates, it's a BIG deal, and we owe our customers the best we can do. It's insane to me a regulated-to-fing-death place like LA in CA doesn't have a platinum-standard fire protection system, especially in their threat/risk environment. That's like living in Phoenix and not having air conditioning.
I just love how everything they've done to "reduce the carbon footprint" literally went up in smoke and is now one of the biggest footprints out there. Sorry to the sensible people stuck in that hole and having to deal with this. The people who voted for it? Well, I don't want you to burn, I don't want you to lose your home but I can't help but point out the irony.
If the government were the insurers, perhaps the government would actually do what is necessary to prevent things like this from happening? Better forrest control and firefighting infrastructure would prevent a fire from ever getting this bad.
I doubt that, the rest of the country would just subsidize it through taxes instead. The government never cares about spending our money, I doubt they'd start now.
The government has no incentive to not waste money. In fact, they intentionally waste money to prevent budget cuts. And they can always just bail themselves out, even if they have to spend future taxpayer money to do so. It's more likely you'd see private insurers lobbying government for fire prevention, or offering discounts to homeowners who take certain wildfire mitigation actions.
"Like a good neighbor, State Farm isn't there" There was a video a while back with an all women firefighters doing a controlled burn, and they couldn't control it, and it started a forest fire. I'm sure State Farm seen that video.
every woman walking around having a camera and a personal webpage (facebook and the like, at the very best) has done more to harm women than not being able to vote did.
@@hostilesinbound3241 i won't say you're wrong. they need whatever the voting equivalent is of the tiny kid's grocery carts with the flags on them. "YEAH, sweety, i know! you're shopping! you're such a big girl!"
Yes, firefighters used to be physically fit. Now all they need to be is peaceful. So now they prefer to let fires run free and devour their environment.
the insurance companies made the right call in not insuraning in the first place when they saw the writing on the wall... and making them insurance people will just lead to even dumber policies and it will just make everything more expensive (like college education).
@Anwelei you do know that state farm canceled active insurance policies too,so what use is the insurance if they can just say no after taking 15 years of my money
@@bananabob289 Just pointing out that most of those homeowners voted for the policies that led to this. As the old saying goes, they got the government they deserve... a government more worried about "disturbing some animal's habitat", rather their PEOPLE'S habitats... and more worried about being a sanctuary city for "undocumented people" than their own documented people... and a diverse fire chief... and mayor... instead of a COMPETENT fire chief and mayor.
This could be said for any district in any country. Problems happen. The other political party... was not going to spend money to avoid this, nobody in power was going to do it. That's humanity. Look around. It's not a 1 vs 2 issue.
People think insurance companies should force the other 49 states’ residents to subsidize CA’s policies. You can’t live in a high risk area and not expect to pay more for insurance. Allowing the government to insure homes would just be subsidizing a less effective system. Our government only knows how to burn money.
Fresno Firefighters are no joke. They travel all over the valley every year preventing and putting out fires. They know their stuff and are always helping California.
People like to act like all of California is just vegan hipsters and tech dorks, but Non-Coastal California builds some hard-nosed people. The Central Valley is closer to Texas and El Paso culturally than Cali and San Francisco.
@julesl6910 that's not his point. The fire departments across Cali have been refunded, their most experienced workers fired for not being vaccinated, and not cleaned out the dry dead plant matter for years. People talk about it, but a lot of places don't do anything. His point is that Fresno does preventative methods so they don't deal with this. LA doesn't. so this happens more.
1.Continually decrease firefighting funding. 2.Refuse to conduct preventative burns to reduce fuel from fires. 3.Ignore the fact that insurance companies do not provide coverage due to the severity of the threat. Watch as they blame it on climate change. This is what happens when you manage a state based on emotional decisions and cater to progressive ideologies.
4. Fire over a hundred firefighters for not getting the heart attack jab couple years prior 5. Prioritize check boxes and representation of diversity instead of the best people for the job
It’s absolutely absurd to me that a state that is basically 50% surrounded by water has shortages of water. How have they not invested in larger storage systems, larger methods to distribute said water, and larger desalination or distillation systems!? Especially in a known dry place that experiences wildfires. I would’ve been invested into at least 5 of those water scooping fireplanes. I don’t care if they are in hangers 99% of the time. For situations like this it saves so much more lives, time, money, resources. But instead they fund DEI and social justice initiatives. Smart.
Rare instance where I half side with the insurance company. Like the state is refusing to take measures to reduce the risk cause “environmentalism” and reducing their fire department budget. Like I wouldn’t insure a home there either. It’s like selling theft insurance to someone that leaves their house with the door open. Or car insurance to some drunkard that likes cruising down highways. I do feel really bad and sympathetic to those whose homes were destroyed of course. But I lay the blame purely at the feet of The government that refused to take even reasonable precautions
They tried to put into place price controls on the insurance companies, that was the final nail. I swear to god, the left and thinking you can just decide prices through arbitrary policy.
If "private insurance is a scam", then "insurance by the government" would ALSO be a scam... but BEING the government, it would be even worse, because it would be far more wasteful. And that is just one reason that it would be worse. There are more reasons, including what is sometimes called "mission creep", which happened to Social Security for example. Asmon had a BAD take on this one.
1:52:14 "my car breaks down I can get it fixed, but if someone else's car breaks down it fucks up their life for 3 months." I had to drop out of college because my car broke down, so it can actually be for more than just 3, unfortunately. The ripple effects of how that changed my life will last forever. Now it's not all bad. I had to take a job where ultimately I met my wife, we got married and now we have 4 kids and we're climbing out of poverty pretty surely, but yeah I was on the road to becoming an engineer. I wanted to make remote operated drone androids by combining mind reading tech to control them from heavily armored mobile FOBs so they're close enough to cut through possible enemy interference when necessary so that our casualty rate would go down. Not the death rate, that's already massively reduced although that's also something this would improve, but I mean our paraplegic rate. Soldiers aren't dying anymore, but they are coming back maimed, and that's not only a million tragedies but also expensive to tend to for the whole country. My goal was to put that money into robots that take the bullet instead. The ultimate bullet proof vest is to not be in the line of fire. That was gonna be my life's work, but now I'm making an indie video game instead.
It’s a similar issue. The home and fire insurance see that it’s not worth it to insure a high risk property, healthcare sees that it’s not worth it to insure a walking heart attack.
The thing is that they already had insurance so they were willing to offer it and the customers were willing to pay. The reason why they canceled the policies is because in recent months the government locally and for the state of California has not been taking adequate and appropriate measures to curtail the risk of something like this happening. E.g. controlled Burns and audits of reservoir levels.
California (or at least the big citys) is about to have a mass exuding and people will either move to smaller areas or will move out of California. They will see how everything they thought was so good will fail them.
Bad Ted Cruz analogy. Ted was a senator. His job is to rep the state in the senate. He couldnt do anything locally. Cali is the fucking local MAYOR that peaced out.
If you think the fish is the problem, look at other videos coming out about how much the Cali billionaire farm owners are diverting most of Cali water away from the cities to their farms.
@@jonathanstone4878 The fish IS the problem. The Delta Smelt aren't even native to California and they flush millions upon millions of gallons of water into the ocean for it every year, and even worse the last time they took a Delta Smelt population survey they found ONE...nothing changed. If "billionaire farmers" want to divert the water to their farms THAT PRODUCE FOOD I have no problem with that. FYI... farmers don't control where the water is diverted to.
@@jonathanstone4878 You mean the liar video about how a farming company uses 1% of the total water use of the state which meanwhile can't build reservoirs because environmentalists won't let them? You know in theory we're supposed to have more than enough water to supply all our farmers AND all our cities?
@@allenliu8820 that‘s also not correct- there are different type of smelt, and the general smelt population can be found basically all over globally, only two Californian subtypes have been put on the list.
Asmon's Ted Cruz analogy is wrong. Karen Bass left for vacation the same day the fires started. The raiding party started the boss and she immediately peace'd out the second they aggro'd it
Also a US Senator has no power inside their state, so Ted Cruz couldn't do anything about the situation anyway. A mayor and the governor are the two people most responsible for handling the disaster as it's happening.
@@Sleeptastic Yup, that exactly. It still probably wasn't the best look for Ted Cruz to peace out of Texas when he did, but also he's not the guy who's responsible in that scenario, unlike the mayor of LA and the Governor of the State.
My family... of which only one was moderately affected by the fires, had a meeting today. We all live in Los Angeles. I have been subtly introducing the idea of moving to another state for years. Today... for the first time, the elders are discussing it. This is serious. I should mention... we are ALL African Americans, and we have ALL (14 of us) left the democrat party within the last 10 years. We want leaders who focus on the major necessities of their constituents... not the exotic nuances of the small minority (DEI BS, identity politics, defund police, etc etc). I'm looking forward to leaving this hellhole.
Consider changing political party, and look at PA or NJ. They are purple states, leaning red right now, with good classical liberal values, and if you avoid the cities, there is no wokeness, but plenty of Classical Liberal types. I am a Republican, but Fetterman is a good Democrat that I can get behind and probably more what you're looking for.
@@bridoc519 I was born in Easton, Warren County is nice; Phillipsburg is kinda low income, but isn't a bad place, same for Alpha and the surrounding areas.
The insurance companies canceled a lot of policies mostly because the government wasn't doing what it needed to to lower the risk of something like this happening. They had plenty of opportunities to do controlled Burns and make sure the reservoirs were full and they didn't. I don't blame them for canceling the policies I blame the government for being incompetent
I don't think fire hydrant is gonna do much with fire on this scale. if the wind is right and condition is favorable, the fire is just gonna sweep evrything.
They blame insurance compaies while sending the risk through the roof and not allowing premiums to go up to match the risk. I don't blame the company for protecting itself from stupid government laws.
Ya this is mainly on California for not reassuring insurance companies to stay to make a lot of these higher risk areas safer by taking the right steps to prevent them from exploding
As a Californian, I never am...some counties are.cities are better then others, either dem or republican but i swear it's not called lost angeles for no reason..democrats are absolutely useless their yet keep power
They are the hyper tied to the environmentalist activist identity, and have failed to acknowledge the reality that science regarding the environment has been tainted by political interest for 30 years. Of course they are shocked when their good intentions lead to a hellscape inferno breaking out in their back yard.
That basic fact actively gets ignored whenever it's directed at someone with an R next to their name. Meanwhile, Ds, Leftist and Rergressives who are in charge over an area will actively be derelict to everything while blaming everyone for every negative outcome from their dereliction.
Yeah, and what business does the mayor of a city have taking a taxpayer funded trip to Ghana. Ted left for Mexico during a power outage. In Texas. Big deal. We had a storm in upstate NY in the 90s and I was without power for over 30 days, in the middle of winter, and we just delt with it. We literally got water out of our pool by drilling a hole with an ice auger and the only hot meals we had was what we could cook on a kerosene heater.
@@songhan1586Representing is not the same thing as leading. Mayors and Governors lead and command the cities and states (respectively). A senator has no power to call anything to action. The Senator can try to get bills/laws pass that will benefit the state as a member of the legislative branch, but the Governor is the head of the executive branch that can call for National Guard and FEMA, as well as help organize emergency responses.
they still have to pay full property tax, despite their property no longer existing. they will be in government debt forever and basically unable to ever have a home again.
One reason the winds are so strong is that the fire itself creates its own weather system from the extreme heat they generate. It's a self feeding system, lots of dry brush/trees fuel the fire, the fire generates heat, the heat creates winds, the wind spreads the fire quickly which feeds on more dry brush which grows larger and creates more heat and more wind.
That's true, but I believe this was mainly just an intense Santa Ana wind event, as I don't believe there were any dry thunderstorms reported nor pyrocumulous spotted, but I may be wrong.
Let me tell you a story about 'accountability': In Japan, there was a small town mayor who was REALLY unpopular for erecting the biggest sea wall in the country, was scolded for years for 'wasting taxpayer money'. Some years after his natural death, the sea wall saved the town from a tsunami, with only the port outside the wall being damaged. He went from being a laughingstock to a martyr. Later, an ancient stone sign was found, saying "Do not build below this sign." The town sat below it. If it wasn't for the 'wasteful' seawall, the town would have been destroyed. While we want to blame leaders for everything, think about it from their perspective. They might do the right thing, but then their political opponents attack them to take power for themselves. It takes a special kind of strength to persevere despite the peer pressure. The mayor was never able to reap the benefits of being right, but he did what he did selflessly. If somebody isn't selfless, if they view their station as 'just a job', they aren't going to do heroic things like that mayor. They're gonna cash out as much as they can before the next election cycle, because of how temperamental voters can be. Why fix the infrastructure, when the idiots are calling for more welfare? You can't get voted in otherwise if you have no personal connection with people. In the end, the town erected a statue of the deceased mayor that had saved them from the grave.
Yeah. The mayor of our town has been catching mad shit for spending a lot of money on rebuilding a dam designed to mitigate those once in 300 years flood events. "It's unnecessary, it's been like this for a century and it's gonna stand for another one" so on and so forth. Guess what, there was a once in a 300 years flood event last year. The much bigger neighboring town has flooded. Ours has not. The dam held out. Barely, with the water reaching the top, even with the firefighters pumping the thing down. But it held. This was the first year no one complained when he said how much we would need to finish the work on the dam. The guy must be a saint, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold myself from being smugness incarnate I were in his shoes.
As a person who worked for the same insurance company for over 20+ years... They are the scums of the earth. We make billions in profit and lay off our own people if our profits were L:ESS than the previous year (yes profits)... and i have seen deducyibles rise from a few dollars to THOUSANDS of dollars. I am just an employee, and yes AI is also taking away my job slowly.... every year we need less people because we have a new "AI" system that replaced them... i am a no body in my company and whhen i die, my position will either be replaced by a human or AI within a day or 2 and no one will remember me at my job
My favorite conspiracy theory right now is that the private Equity firms and insurance companies are behind this and they're going to swoop in and buy all these properties cheap afterwards
That's not even a theory. It's fact. The conspiracy theory would be ill intentions or planning it. I think they just capitalize off of inevitable destruction.
State Farm is a private Mutual Insurance company meaning it is owned by it's policy holders. I'm sure the other policy holders are perfectly happy with not increasing their premium to pay for homes in high risk areas.
My wife’s aunts house I believe was burnt down. They left Pasadena when the fire was a block away and it was approaching them fast. They haven’t gone back yet, but from what they heard, it’s gone. It’s really sad.
@@JustaHarmfulguy Guy says 2 sentances, how is that yapping? He's just sharing a personal anecdote, ignore it and move on if it's such an issue for you.
As a non American, I don't understand the hate Ted Cruz got. He is a Senator,right. His job isn't to manage Texas but to represent Texas in DC. Why don't people talk about the governor and the city mayors in Texas? Is this a political thing?
Bingo. Just lime bush got flack for Katrina. He did all he could its was up to tje state government to ask for help and because theu are democrat and je is republican they refised help till tje last minute
It’s because we have a separation of federal and state government. the federal and state government managed different things. Ultimately its the local government who manages the resources, but the federal government tells the state government what to do though in DC
Because most people don't even understand the structure of the government. They just think the people in the "top positions" are in charge of everything when that isn't how it works. Basically, the government over time is too big and complicated for people to fully understand, so average person doesn't try anymore. Even if the public was interested in fixing these problems with their government, they wouldn't be able to because unless you make understanding the government your entire life (only something gov workers and other certain types of bureaucrats can do), it isn't reasonable to expect people to know who in charge of this complex system. Which only makes corruption easier to perform and harder to root out, which is probably about half of why the system has been turned into the complicated mess it has.
👀 Wild listening to this when my county just had to refill the reservoir after the city decided not to maintain our water pumps and everything broke 😅 the hell is going on with the water situations this year
But thats how the msm manipulates the public. They tell their bs fake stories and people believe it. The fact that Cruises name is even being brought up is pure deflection.
Tes cruz is a us senator so he could introduce legislation that might help down the line, but he's not a state executive so it's not like he can immediately have any effect during a state emergency. The mayor of of city being gone is a much worse thing than a US senator
Finally at the end and it's sad to see asmond talk about how it's common sense when he clearly doesn't get which government positions are there to do what. I don't really give two shits about ted cruz, but best case if he tried passing preemptive legislation to prepare texas specifically for cold weather then people would call it pork.
I have state farm and live in nor cal. My premium was doubled last year, then just got a notice last week saying it is doubled on the double amount. My family has been with state farm for probably around 80 years. They have been trying to get rid of our policy since the camp fire. Our agent literally told us if we can't afford our new premium they would be glad to cancel our policy. No one else will insure us at this point due to the mismanagement of this state.
Did you care about North Carolina, Georgia and Florida not getting FEMA aid because there might be a Trump flag in their yard? Probably not. Hate that its happening to those around you, but maybe burst your bubble and realize you reap what you sow
Sorry, no compassion here. Living in an earthquake, mudslide, and wildfire ridden area doesn’t make sense. When the weather is great you all brag about it and rub it in on the rest of Americans.
@@NormFC Yes, most people did care about the victims of hurricanes in California and elsewhere. You need to spend less time online and talk to the average non-political non-brainrotted human. For your own sake, and ours.
fires are part of the natural cycle here, only thing they can do is control the frequency and severity of the fires. so its not exactly mother nature punishing, its mother nature doing its thing while humans are the cats that run into its legs then blame it for getting ran over
Honestly, that sounds like a great neighbor though 😂 live your own liiiiife They couldn’t justify that shit. Everyone’s rates around the fucking country will go up.
Actuaries are hired to determine rates based on probability, and California is like “Nah fuck your predictive models, if you want to do business here you can’t charge more than X or you can leave.” So they left 🤷🏻♂️
As an atheist, this is the strongest arguement ive seen for a God, smited the child transition supporters, the diddy supporters and crime apologists in one fell swoop
nah its still causal. idiots vote idiots that do idiotic things that lead to idiotic and devastating consequences. this was just darwinism on a macroscale.
I had State Farm until I recently switched carriers. I had been with them for 25 years, had home, auto, and life policies. Even though we had literally never filed a claim with them, for anything, our premiums almost doubled this year. When I talked to my agent he told me the reason my prices skyrocketed, in NY, was because of the fires in California. I know that a TON of people cancelled their policies because of this, which is another reason they ditched Californians.
They avoided doing any kind of forest maintenance so that fires would happen so they could scream see climate change until it got a little too out of control is exactly what’s going on here. It’s going on in Canada as well.
10000 this. Canada literally thry said it was the dry pine. gov said, nahhhh climate change.. cant touch it.. fire burns down town, Gilbert blames climate change... aka.. not my problem now give me money so I can go to dubai
There's so many laws that prevent you from even moving a twig, it's impossible to get anything done. After spending a few million on environmental reviews and permit fees you might get an acre of brush cleared out.
Smelt Fish are fine, right? more important that human life apparently. what a waste of effort and resources. Now more people will see this as an opportunity to leave CAL
Among other things, I think this is ultimately exactly what they want. I don't want to go off on any "zany conspiracy theories" but you can probably put some of the bigger pieces together on your own without even thinking too hard.
In California, some efforts to prevent wildfires involve using reservoirs and water storage systems to improve water availability for firefighting and land management. Key ideas include: 1. Expanding Water Storage: Increasing reservoir capacities ensures sufficient water supply during the dry season for wildfire suppression. Larger reservoirs can provide more resources for helicopters, planes, and ground crews fighting fires. 2. Strategic Water Distribution: Installing or improving infrastructure, such as pumps and pipelines, to quickly distribute water from reservoirs to areas at high risk for wildfires. 3. Fuel Management with Water: Using controlled irrigation or water from reservoirs to create “green belts” or moist zones around fire-prone areas. These act as barriers to slow or stop the spread of wildfires. 4. Hydropower Revenue for Fire Prevention: Leveraging revenue from hydropower generated at reservoirs to fund wildfire prevention programs, such as controlled burns, vegetation management, and community protection initiatives. 5. Post-Wildfire Reservoir Maintenance: Cleaning out ash and debris from reservoirs after wildfires to ensure water quality and preserve capacity for firefighting needs. These strategies align with broader wildfire mitigation plans that also include better forest management, reducing hazardous vegetation, and adopting advanced technologies for early fire detection.
@@VyseMalice They're not. You have to understand why they don't work. 1. Water storage for example only works when you have consistent rainfall, which California hasn't had for over 15 years. Expanding water storage isn't going to do anything when you don't have water to work with. Two years of above average rain doesn't fix that problem. You need more than half a decade. Plus if you attempt to capture the water in any way, you also prevent that water from reaching the lands that need it. So while people like to whine and complain about a fish, long term, you don't want to restrict that flow of water unless you want to make problems worse. 2. The same issue goes for "strategic water distribution". It only works if you have a steady supply of water, which you don't have thanks to a decade of drought. At best, you're going to thin the amount of water you have rather than perhaps concentrating it into areas that need it, making the problem even worse. 3. and 4. Fuel management with water relies on the cooperation of an interstate compact between all those with access to the Colorado River as well because in case you forgot, that's where a lot of the water comes from. You'd have to get the likes of Colorado, Ohio, and Nevada to agree to it. The same applies to much of the hydropower assuming you can even get the water that far. Good luck with that one, especially once you start telling the rest of the country what they're going to have to give up. 4. and 5. Fire prevention is largely hindered by the fact that the most flammable lands tends to be under the jurisdiction of the federal government rather than the state government. The Palisade and Eaton Fires this time around began in federally managed lands in which the state of California has no jurisdiction. Forest management and clearing of debris would have to be done either with the cooperation of Congress or under their direction. You're better off complaining to the Congressman or Senator in your area than about the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Yeah... i don't think Statefarm is wrong.... the fault is not prevent this horror... they need to prevent those wildfires At least, have water to stop the fire... holy
This happens at least once a year in California, in different parts of the state. All it takes is one unlucky night where the air is dry, the winds are powerful, and the fire starts in the hills where firefighters can't get to it quick enough. The lack of resources in LA (after the fact) is a different story.
You can never stop a wild fire from happening, completely but you can limit its spread and damage ......those burns are sooooo healthy and needed for the land....now that fire will lead to landslides
@@paytonthornberry1382while I do agree, I feel as though right wing states are ran better than left wing states from what I’ve heard and seen. But that mostly has to do with those politicians being less corrupt, or surprisingly not corrupt at all. I’m pretty Gavin Newsom might be the most corrupt governor in the country.
Not from the US and I know gavin cut the budget for the fire services spent 25 million to trump Prof the state crazy and when trump was in power he sued to stop water being sent over that way over a fish didn't build water storage ponds for rain water for such a problem with record rain fall also don't help he removed all the dams on the river so no place for aircraft to get water safely and no control burns happing its a must in super dry climates like australia cail ect spending money in all the wrong ways
Insurance is a scam, but if it was run by the government it would be soooo much worse. You don't want them to run more than a police department, fire department and building and maintaing roads. California could have all the water it could ever need if they built a nuclear plant and several desalination plants along the coast
Water operator here - the water towers are filled by wells which pump water up to the tower. The head pressure of all that elevated water in the tower is pushing down with force through all of the pipes in the water system. When the water in the tower runs low , you lose pressure, and if you lose enough pressure, you don’t have enough to push the water up a mountainside. The wells (if they have wells and drill) can only pump so much water from the ground into the system
How can anyone blame the insurance company in this situation? Their business model is to sell you security. 100 people pay in, 10 cash out, they make a profit. If year after year, 50 people cash out instead and they start losing money, they have to raise prices or stop insuring people, it's that simple. If the state says they can't raise prices, that doesn't leave them with a lot of options. And this happened IN MARCH, almost a year ago. The people had more than enough time to get new insurance.
im a California resident and they spent 20 something billion last year on the homeless problem and all it did was increase the homeless population.
That was their goal. Corrupt governments always have the same motives. Create a crisis, then get more tax money to fix crisis, then never solve crisis and make it worse. Watch the next time they promote on fixing homelessness. They will brag about spending more money than last time.
Same pattern over and over.
Been homeless since 2018 in my car, the only government employees I've ever had contact with are police officers, usually there to harass me.
Idk wtf you're paying for but I rather doubt any fraction of it is going where you think it will.
@@NunyaBiznezz-q2vmaybe stop watching youtube videos and live?
damn
@@NunyaBiznezz-q2v the money goes to NGO’s that claim to be helping…I doubt it.
a firefighter with no water is a fire monitor. They dont fight the fire, they just tell you where the fire is.
They can't even shovel dirt onto it to smother it
some homes lost but its healing earth ;;l
"Here it comes. There it went"
@@EthVortexShield Not without an environmental impact study.
Bahahahhaahha yo the fires over there.
Gavin Newsom: Nobody could see this coming.
State Farm: We did.
Geo Experts: We Too.
Scientists: me too
Neighbor States: Yeah, me too.
Citizens: Here's a List of me Knowing this would happen, but the Government is more Focused on something else.
Trump said it when he was president.
everyone did he needs to step down and be prosecuted
@@sblgrjit isn’t change when California has always had this risk (even more after importing eucalyptus)
@@sblgrjclimate change sparks wild fires 😂😂?
>Vote for bad policies
>State literally burns down
>Move to different state
>Vote for same policies
Rinse and repeat. Austin Texas will be LA 2.0 in less than 5 years. Shit, is basically already is any way...
Hey At least they got a COD Bo2 Zombies Transit Map remaster in real life.
Had a thought come through. I haven’t heard anyone mention this. When is the Olympics in LA? 2028 ? Clearing up the land? Yes, sounds like conspiracy, time will show, but maybe this explains why governors act the way they do about this.
@@dima-9646 Brother burning down all of Socal to clear space for a stadium is an absolutely insane conspiracy theory. Especially when there are already several stadiums there as well as the Rams stadium that was built like less than 5 years ago.
@@nathanwho1384 Colorado has turned into *Calirado* ...we're right there with you.
When you redirect water away from the city for years, refuse to build reservoirs for a decade, insurance companies canceling policies WEEKS before major fires, focusing on DEI, reducing the budget by millions, passing legislation to prohibit the removal of old debris, etc. it’s no wonder each year there’s more and more fires. It’s so sad to see.
Those insurance companies for sure are getting really good ai information these days, literally saw this coming, it was gonna happen Eventually due to mismanagement but by 2 weeks is crazy (unless you want to be believe some of the theories out their)
Not "sad to see" enough to not make this about DEI, though. Jesus, man.
apparently it all started when the dollar got off the gold standard, and then they made it backed by oil. they could devalue the currency as much as they wanted. and then after transferring billions/trillions to elites and wasting the rest of it on pointless crap (like wars in other countries and "wahman empowerment", equality, dei, anti-racism, environmentalism, etc), there was no money left for the people they are supposed to represent and unimportant stuff like maintaining infrastructure :/
To be fair they had news last year about White Firemen being abundant and that was an issue cause apparently they need to be more inclusive so the budget cut happened and most of that was allocated to programs to hire non white firemen and women regardless of the standards to be fair today it's not like they had a chance to take action thanks to there being no water so we'll never know if they were actually worth investing on either.
@yamatonoryuujin4871 the budget was never cut, infact it's been increased
thousands of homes lost , homelessness in California increases by 0.07%
Considering most of these places were high end homes and not high density, yeah, probably.
some homes lost but its healing earth
@@rebeltheharem7028Ten thousand homes times an average of five family members is effectively at least 50,000 people that lost their homes. Hopefully Trump will do something. But no more democrats in our state incoming 2026.
What do you mean the earth is healing @@Laughitysv2
💀
I think that Hollywood should get together and Sing "Imagine" again. That will make it all better!
For the price of just pennies day, you too can save the lifestyle of another Hollywood Celeb!
Now whine about DEI. GO!!!!
We should be singing "Water Fire Burn"
@@warriorhockey1232 to be fair DEI policies are part of reason why there are so much problems in dealing with tgis calamity.
@@warriorhockey1232DEI is literally a big reason why this bullsh*t is happening. Don’t kid yourself.
Remember when trump told CA they needed to clear up the brush and forests and Gavin Newsome went tf off yelling saying he needed to mind his business and not tell CA what to do?
Ironic isn't it
I was in one of those fires. He had a chance to help California when he was president the first time and did nothing.
It's ironic that trump claimed that climate change was a hoax a few years ago.
@@SamDeLong-n6s Apparently they didn't wona sign the paperwork. But what do i know...
"Trump was right" strikes again. Maybe they should at least consider the orange man, he's not stupid just obnoxious.
@@SamDeLong-n6shard to "help California" when 90% of the state is screaming "orange man bad" and the governor refuses to cooperate.
Look at all that land for Blackrock to buy up cheap.
People are saying they've seen arsonists. Up here in canada a bunch of climate wackos got arrested for starting forest fires because they wanted to blame the fires on climate change.
You can almost hear bill gates rubbing his palms
Look at my NON California land skyrocketing in price as everyone there flees to buy in other states...
Won't happen, Trump would step in and make sure natural citizens have home rights first, and it would be in his power to do so, as long as the individuals only get support in homesteading.
People have already received offers apparently
I hate how, whenever a massive fire happens in CA, the mainstream media or journalists refuse to demand answers for "what could have been done to prevent it from happening." It's always about pointing fingers of who's not helping in the moment or afterwards. This shit happens everywhere. Why does it seem we've become less competent at dealing with a reoccurring annual event?
They rather fight wars?😅
the issue is home prices and land developers building where they shouldnt. People have money and want houses and there is no room out there. Hence a house that anywhere else would cost 400k costing 10 mil. There is an INSANE demand out there, enough to make people build in areas they shouldnt.
Literally every thing happens like this
They don’t build for earthquakes until after the earthquakes lol
mainstream medias job is to protect corporations and government. not to inform you :o
@@rickyterheege20duitseherde36 idk, their reasons change like the soup of the day.
California: *Fails at land maintenance and wildfire prevention*
California: *Fails at water management and firefighting readiness*
Insurance companies: *Pulls out of offering fire insurance because they exist to cover house fires not catastrophic city-wide destruction*
California: "IS THIS CORPORATE GREED????????"
So true
insurance is for disaster's not inevitabilities
Gotta love the thinking of the left
They’re blaming climate change even with all of their stupid climate policies.
The only comment that gets it
Hot take, but If I ran an insurance company and the state know for forest fires won't let me increase rates while simultaneously cutting their fire department budget, not securing reserves of water and not proactively clearing forest to prevent fires, I'd leave to
Who could have predicted this when the city defunded the fire department, wouldn’t allow the cleaning of forest debris; and refused to refill the water supply??? Such a unforeseen tragedy, hopefully the insurance companies don’t cancel fire insurance, right?
I can already hear the plumber
Many of insurance companies removed the fire from insurance plans in areas which are prone to fires. Many of these burnt homes hasn't beed insured for fire/
@@JulioCezar-we9zo Insurance companies will go under when faced with 10000 claims in one week. I doubt they are prepared for what happened (and is still happening).
@@wombatilloI lately heard an conversation with an insurance company CEO here in Germany (we have 800+ insurance companies here) they had 3 years ago around 750 billion saved for unforeseen things. This did shrink while Corona and new citizens from abroad wich get full healthcare the first day a few 100 billion. With few I mean they are alarmed because it gets less. But I think if a fire insurance work as intended they maybe have more than enough for the houses.
and also when they pushed for diversity and disrupting unions because firefighters were pretty much 100% white male and therefore their unions were stronger
Fun history: The Spanish knew they were sailing on course and were off the coast of California because "they could follow the wild brush fires up the coast" California has always been extremely vulnerable to massive brush fires.
Yet on the opposite side of the US they discovered well maintained forests.
@@elijahsmith2366 it's almost as if the east coast is much wetter than the west coast. Shocking how these things work.
Yes, maintained by aliens.@@elijahsmith2366
We’ve only recently become vulnerable to third world politics
dont tell the climate loonies about that. They'll get mad
They’re trying to get rid of the Diddler tapes
OH, this is fantastic. LOL
exactly what i think
Weird way to do that 😬
Bruh
Hey maybe when this is over there'll be no way to make those jokes anymore because everything is gone.
Blaming "climate change" for wild fires is so smooth brained. That's like having your store robbed for $850 worth of merchandise and blaming slavery. If you're going to build thousands of multimillion dollar homes literally feet from each other, in a naturally arid climate, and then defund the fire department, donate "surplus" fire fighting equipment to Ukraine, and veto a plan to divert desperately needed water because of fish, this became an inevitably. Not to mention that California is the highest taxed state in the country and almost none of that was invested into maintenance of brush, and forests, even though the state's leadership has been warned for years that if they didn't maintain their brush that this exact tragedy was just a matter of time. Other countries have this exact same climate, and even more flammable flora, and they don't burn multiple times a year, because they invest in the maintenance of their country. I'm a Liberal, and even I thought it was absurd that when Trump suggested that California start to invest more in environmental maintenance, Democrats chastised him. "What do you want us to do? Go and rake the forest floors?". I guess we can all see who was right on that issue.
Well it is climate change, they catch activists who started forest fires regularly.
no water in they hydrants, but bet your ass you will get a ticket if you park in front of it lol
Palisades is to blame not LA , like Beverly hills
They're showing support for the smelt fish, by having their homes smelting.
I don't think you realized that they reported 3 million gallons of water being used up
@@EverydayDesignerthe entire infrastructure is the result of an entire county controlling it, LA county so yeah LA is still to blame.
Oh, you bet your azz they will
Mayor of LA, Karen Bass, cut the fire department budget by millions of dollars and fired fire fighters for not getting the covid-19 vaccine.
The fire hydrates identified as functional.
But she's the first black lesbian mayor of LA.
Thats what's important donchaknow
@@gowankommando dei hire
@@gowankommandoamazing that LA voted for her after it went oh so well for Chicago 🤦♂️ the brainrot is REAL
The mayor only controls the LAFD budget, LAFD wouldn’t have been responsible for these wildfires anyways, wildfires are supposed to be dealt with by Cal-fire with municipal departments lending manpower if they need it. The areas currently affected are also not under the jurisdiction of the LAFD but probably LA county fire.
Karen Bass said her "number one priority is DEI". Well look at that shit. Her city is literally burning to the ground. I hope the firefighters saving lives are diverse enough 🙄
As someone that lives in LA. Fuck I hope not
They got to the fires and realised that they focused on DEI training too hard, and they hadn’t got to the firemen training yet.
They recently posted that the new FireChief that's running the operation on all these fires is a WOMEN. Not picking someone who has a record that can lead large squads they picked because of her GENDER over record. She has nothing to her record that's saying she's the right person to battle these fires.
Luckily VP Harris will be governor of California soon. I’m sure she’ll fix everything…
FYI: Majority of Los Angeles is a concrete jungle where there is no risk of wildfire because it's all concrete.
After seeing this, it seems to me like the insurance companies were right to cancel their policies. Why would a business operate in an area where it’s guaranteed that wildfires, which happen every year, are guaranteed to destroy countless homes? Disaster insurance isn’t meant to be routinely needed.
People who complain about this expect there to be no cost for rebuilding their homes caused by wildfires made worse by the policies of the politicians they vote for repeatedly. If you can’t afford to live where fires could destroy your home at any time, you shouldn’t live there.
I was at a Forestry conference during the 2003 San Diego Fire, and the USDA Forest Service data pointed out that fires confinement effort (mainly controlling fuel build up in forest understory) had been made after the 1930's fire and major fires almost disappear in the region from 1930 to 1970. Then housing booming in 70's lead to municipal regulation to go against fire confinement policies (distances between homes, maintain canopy cover between houses ....). Then major fire occurs in the area in 1978, 1982, 1985, 1993, 2003... No climate change involve just bad policies.
The people who say it's climate change don't want to admit that the people they voted for caused this.
Cool to hear from someone who actually went to the conference it may be my anecdotal experience, but San Diego has been much better about controlled burns since the Witch Creek fire in 2003.
Its both.
@@paulrasmussen8953so basically your saying that not clearing brush, and refusing to conserve the earth leads to devastating climate change…..
@@patrickkeenan5603nope
"the government should be in charge of insurance and helping people in need."
continues to watch video full of the government failing people when in need.
Seriously, who thinks the DMV is run efficiently? Same people would run government insurance. And guess who would pay out for high-risk losses? You, the taxpayer.
As if companies are any better. They arent
Most insurance is bad and dumb, but that was such a bad take.
biden will give them all 750 loan and same day send 500 billion to Israel
Right. The government failed them WAY before this happened.
people have been saying to clean the woods for a decade but environmentalist said no leave the trees alone and the governor say ok for a decade. this time is not the insurance companies fault.
28:55 the worse part about the twitter people is they are happy then expansive houses are getting destroyed, wait in till they find out about supply and demand. less houses makes each house in LA even more expansive, because they are not expansive enough.
We need to get back to "Conservation" and away from "Environmentalism"
@@gowankommandoas a wildlife biologist I fully agree. They have been getting warned for decades. Keep letting the fuel build up. Here ya go.
No amount of "forest management" was going to stop a fire in this environment from getting out of control. People seem to fail to grasp how destructive 80mph winds plus humidity below 5% is when it comes to fire. The only way this wasn't going to be bad from that perspective was if the entire Santa Monica mountains were clear cut of all vegetation.
A spark in the wind can travel for over a while and catch fire in another location in that environment. I still support forest management though. But in this situation, it's nothing more than a scapegoat.
Don't forget all the water LA would ever need that would flow south from the Northwest being diverted to the Pacific ocean to "save" some little minnow type fish in a lake....
@@Robinhood11B Wouldn't surprise me if they literally didn't do it after the 2018 fires because Trump said they needed to to avoid something like this. Their spite knows no bounds. I could sadly easily see that happening.
Something I notices as an electrical engineer from the UK, is all your electricity supplied via overhead wires? pumping stations wont work without electricity and the overhead wires seem very exposed to failure from fire/wind, not sure if there is any good backup generation system at water plants in California?
Insurance is a gamble. When you vote for policies to make your state a tinder box and bet that it won't catch on fire, don't be surprised when insurance companies don't take that bet.
Get ready for government markets 😁
@@zephyrosuav9760 Govt controls all flood insurance through FEMA and how's that working out?
tinder*
@@VasilKronstein Yeah.. I had already corrected it.. brain fart. What can I say?
@@bryanb3352speaking of FEMA. After Katrina, parts of the levees are still under-maintained and there are still places underwater even years after Katrina. You can’t spell Finesse without FEMA 💀💀💀
1.Continually cut firefighter funds
2.Refuse to do preventative burns to remove the fuel for fires.
3.Ignore the fact that insurance companies don’t offer coverage because of the how high the threat is.
Watch them blame it on climate change. This is what happens when you run a state based on emotional decisions and catering to woke ideas.
Yep. Remember the outrage about Maui? Nothing was done about it.
Ironic that Asmon's solution is to give the government more power, after they created the problem in the first place. It's insane to keep doing the same things over and over.
1. We need to stop doing controlled burns and brush clean up because it causes climate change.
2. The increase and intensity of forest fires now are caused by climate change.
3.???
4. Profit
Watch as I redirect your anger towards private landowners and the federal government. The State of California, manages 3% of California's forests. The rest are owned by the Federal government and private landowners. We will continue to blame climate change for the problems because climate is affecting precipitation. Rainfall continues to decrease every year meaning the land becomes drier and drier. Usually rainfall would help speed up the process of decay and keep the forests moist, but the drier climate has made it more difficult.
I run a water treatment plant for a city, and a MAJOR part of our distribution department is continually testing flow and pressure rates and ratings on our hundreds of fire hydrants for fire protection, BECAUSE the property insurance rates for the entire region depend on it, it's called an ISO Rating.
We have some businesses that fail this testing due to whatever factors or the minimums of their carrier, and they've had to build their own small water tower for their sprinkler system to get any insurance coverage. We start having pressure/flow test issues for whatever reason, it can spike everyone's insurance rates, it's a BIG deal, and we owe our customers the best we can do.
It's insane to me a regulated-to-fing-death place like LA in CA doesn't have a platinum-standard fire protection system, especially in their threat/risk environment. That's like living in Phoenix and not having air conditioning.
I just love how everything they've done to "reduce the carbon footprint" literally went up in smoke and is now one of the biggest footprints out there.
Sorry to the sensible people stuck in that hole and having to deal with this. The people who voted for it? Well, I don't want you to burn, I don't want you to lose your home but I can't help but point out the irony.
Carbon is the life element. No need to reduce your carbon, big need to pay attention to where it goes.
If the government were the insurers, perhaps the government would actually do what is necessary to prevent things like this from happening? Better forrest control and firefighting infrastructure would prevent a fire from ever getting this bad.
I doubt that, the rest of the country would just subsidize it through taxes instead. The government never cares about spending our money, I doubt they'd start now.
The government has no incentive to not waste money. In fact, they intentionally waste money to prevent budget cuts. And they can always just bail themselves out, even if they have to spend future taxpayer money to do so. It's more likely you'd see private insurers lobbying government for fire prevention, or offering discounts to homeowners who take certain wildfire mitigation actions.
"Like a good neighbor, State Farm isn't there"
There was a video a while back with an all women firefighters doing a controlled burn, and they couldn't control it, and it started a forest fire. I'm sure State Farm seen that video.
😂
every woman walking around having a camera and a personal webpage (facebook and the like, at the very best) has done more to harm women than not being able to vote did.
Letting women vote was harmful for everyone in the first place. 😂@@toodlepop
@@hostilesinbound3241 i won't say you're wrong. they need whatever the voting equivalent is of the tiny kid's grocery carts with the flags on them. "YEAH, sweety, i know! you're shopping! you're such a big girl!"
@toodlepop 🤣🤣🤣 you go girl, make the government less mean!!!
This fire is so symbolic. Hollywood burning.
That's not Hollywood lol
@@AngraMainiiuto symbolism it doesn't matter whether or not it actually is. It's close enough.
@@AngraMainiiu it kind of is since a lot of hollywood stars live there
Close enough
That isn't Hollywood mah dude, that's retirement homes, toddlers, mothers, fathers, farming land ect. you're making fun of right now, good job.
LA Mayor Karen Bass is smart, She cut the fire department by 17 million but raised $1.3 billion for the homeless in the 2024-25 fiscal budget.
you get what you vote for!
too bad she did not have a smart answer when the hard questions were asked, putting herself in hot water.
@@Pappagar I work as an electrician in fire life and safety. I definitely didn’t vote for this.
some homes lost but its healing earth ..
She knows homelessness is illegal so all these people have to go to her la homeless shelters since there are no hotel gouging prices.
DEI seems like it’s really working
Yes, firefighters used to be physically fit. Now all they need to be is peaceful. So now they prefer to let fires run free and devour their environment.
Imagine watching this fiasco and saying “give government more power and responsibility by making them run insurance”
Asmon most likely believes that geoengineering aka weather manipulation by the American government is a conspiracy theory.
the insurance companies made the right call in not insuraning in the first place when they saw the writing on the wall... and making them insurance people will just lead to even dumber policies and it will just make everything more expensive (like college education).
@Anwelei you do know that state farm canceled active insurance policies too,so what use is the insurance if they can just say no after taking 15 years of my money
@@bananabob289 Just pointing out that most of those homeowners voted for the policies that led to this.
As the old saying goes, they got the government they deserve... a government more worried about "disturbing some animal's habitat", rather their PEOPLE'S habitats... and more worried about being a sanctuary city for "undocumented people" than their own documented people... and a diverse fire chief... and mayor... instead of a COMPETENT fire chief and mayor.
TOP COMMENT, I WAS THINKING THIS
i knew california was hell
i didn't mean it like this
Well..they voted for it.
@@EmperorsDogedurrr durrr
We did
this is great the world is healing
Commiefornia.
But prayers are out. 🙏
No one deserves such a thing.
Everyone saw this coming. The incompetent management in that state caused this
Blue state so
@@JustaHarmfulguystop yapping you too little man
@@JustaHarmfulguyneither was your's so you're point is?
cutting the fire department budget is literally one of yhrm.... y would u cute fire fighting when that is ur biggest threat....
This could be said for any district in any country.
Problems happen.
The other political party... was not going to spend money to avoid this, nobody in power was going to do it.
That's humanity. Look around.
It's not a 1 vs 2 issue.
People think insurance companies should force the other 49 states’ residents to subsidize CA’s policies. You can’t live in a high risk area and not expect to pay more for insurance. Allowing the government to insure homes would just be subsidizing a less effective system. Our government only knows how to burn money.
Fresno Firefighters are no joke. They travel all over the valley every year preventing and putting out fires. They know their stuff and are always helping California.
I think you mean firefighters, they all have to do the exact same thing. Firefighters are obligated to go help.
People like to act like all of California is just vegan hipsters and tech dorks, but Non-Coastal California builds some hard-nosed people. The Central Valley is closer to Texas and El Paso culturally than Cali and San Francisco.
@julesl6910 that's not his point. The fire departments across Cali have been refunded, their most experienced workers fired for not being vaccinated, and not cleaned out the dry dead plant matter for years. People talk about it, but a lot of places don't do anything. His point is that Fresno does preventative methods so they don't deal with this. LA doesn't. so this happens more.
They aren't the problem though. Nobody's blaming them. They work with what they got, and in this case they have nothing.
I bet some depts spent more yime.and money on diversity training than wild fire prevention lol
Can't believe Los Santos burned down before GTA 6. 👏😑
But really, this is so surreal to watch. Hope everyone stays safe. 🫡 Help is on the way.
From east Oakland California, I been playing for at least 15 years. ! GTA ESO....
That's great. I'm stealing this
@@PseudoSudo-xerounless it’s rain. The only thing getting help is the Smelt lmao
@@kingphilo8355 Probably truer than it should be tbh. 🫣
1.Continually decrease firefighting funding.
2.Refuse to conduct preventative burns to reduce fuel from fires.
3.Ignore the fact that insurance companies do not provide coverage due to the severity of the threat.
Watch as they blame it on climate change. This is what happens when you manage a state based on emotional decisions and cater to progressive ideologies.
4. Fire over a hundred firefighters for not getting the heart attack jab couple years prior
5. Prioritize check boxes and representation of diversity instead of the best people for the job
not attributing climate change to this is also a mistake, the source of the problem is not the fact that it burns, but what causes this.
I’ve already seen people on Reddit say this because of climate change.
Nothing wrong with progressive ideologies like you think there is. It's how you implement them that matters. Keep coping.
@@PartyhatRS This is the logical outcome of the values, and beliefs progressives have.
It’s absolutely absurd to me that a state that is basically 50% surrounded by water has shortages of water. How have they not invested in larger storage systems, larger methods to distribute said water, and larger desalination or distillation systems!? Especially in a known dry place that experiences wildfires. I would’ve been invested into at least 5 of those water scooping fireplanes. I don’t care if they are in hangers 99% of the time. For situations like this it saves so much more lives, time, money, resources. But instead they fund DEI and social justice initiatives. Smart.
Unfortunately the winds have been too strong for scooper planes to operate
Gavin Newsom should just institute fire-free zones in the city. That'll fix it.
That would be too discriminatory for California
mostly peaceful fires
Oh the friggin' racist fires 😡 makes me so friggin' mad
@@av2245fiery but mostly peaceful fires
It works with guns. Just ask the school systems.
$500 aid for every house burnt down. yes.
Too much
They dont deserve that. Use all the state taxes.
@@asdsad17 its a LA. Too popular to use such low number
More than the people got from the hurricanes in Florida. And that was a loan.
That’s only if They remove their Trump signs though.
Rare instance where I half side with the insurance company. Like the state is refusing to take measures to reduce the risk cause “environmentalism” and reducing their fire department budget. Like I wouldn’t insure a home there either. It’s like selling theft insurance to someone that leaves their house with the door open. Or car insurance to some drunkard that likes cruising down highways.
I do feel really bad and sympathetic to those whose homes were destroyed of course. But I lay the blame purely at the feet of The government that refused to take even reasonable precautions
Agree. Insurance knows state actively defunding fire department. Also it’s their right, as long as they give customers proper notice.
I don't feel particularly sympathetic at all for them. I blame the government of California as well, the same one run by people they voted into power.
They tried to put into place price controls on the insurance companies, that was the final nail.
I swear to god, the left and thinking you can just decide prices through arbitrary policy.
boomers cant afford to rebuild so basically the American system is repurposing the land of financial holdouts ie:boomers this is sickening
If "private insurance is a scam", then "insurance by the government" would ALSO be a scam... but BEING the government, it would be even worse, because it would be far more wasteful. And that is just one reason that it would be worse. There are more reasons, including what is sometimes called "mission creep", which happened to Social Security for example.
Asmon had a BAD take on this one.
1:52:14 "my car breaks down I can get it fixed, but if someone else's car breaks down it fucks up their life for 3 months." I had to drop out of college because my car broke down, so it can actually be for more than just 3, unfortunately. The ripple effects of how that changed my life will last forever. Now it's not all bad. I had to take a job where ultimately I met my wife, we got married and now we have 4 kids and we're climbing out of poverty pretty surely, but yeah I was on the road to becoming an engineer. I wanted to make remote operated drone androids by combining mind reading tech to control them from heavily armored mobile FOBs so they're close enough to cut through possible enemy interference when necessary so that our casualty rate would go down. Not the death rate, that's already massively reduced although that's also something this would improve, but I mean our paraplegic rate. Soldiers aren't dying anymore, but they are coming back maimed, and that's not only a million tragedies but also expensive to tend to for the whole country. My goal was to put that money into robots that take the bullet instead.
The ultimate bullet proof vest is to not be in the line of fire.
That was gonna be my life's work, but now I'm making an indie video game instead.
When that kid who used to say, "Save some water for the fish" becomes the governor.
The smelt is more important, apparently.
The governor of a state literally has no say in a decision regarding an endangered specie. it's a federal decision not a state decision.
They're showing support for the smelt fish, by having their homes smelting.
@@MultiChrisjbsmelt are the worst. They make subpar baitfish and smell terrible
It’s a similar issue. The home and fire insurance see that it’s not worth it to insure a high risk property, healthcare sees that it’s not worth it to insure a walking heart attack.
The thing is that they already had insurance so they were willing to offer it and the customers were willing to pay. The reason why they canceled the policies is because in recent months the government locally and for the state of California has not been taking adequate and appropriate measures to curtail the risk of something like this happening. E.g. controlled Burns and audits of reservoir levels.
Its CAs insurance commissioners fault
And it is entirely in their right! just wish some people understood that xd.
But make sure you get vaccinated 💉🫀
California (or at least the big citys) is about to have a mass exuding and people will either move to smaller areas or will move out of California. They will see how everything they thought was so good will fail them.
Bad Ted Cruz analogy. Ted was a senator. His job is to rep the state in the senate. He couldnt do anything locally. Cali is the fucking local MAYOR that peaced out.
Thaaaank you, I'm tired of people thinking he has that power for the state.
Yeah this was a horrible take by asmond.
All he does is waffle anyway.
he is working for mossad , what are you talking about , he does not give a shit about you.
I made a comment saying the same thing. I know how the optics looked but all he would've been able to do is be cold with us.
"That one guy had his house build like in Europe - bricks, not timber...
Fun fact: the fish used as an excuse is used wholesale for food and baits LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE!
If you think the fish is the problem, look at other videos coming out about how much the Cali billionaire farm owners are diverting most of Cali water away from the cities to their farms.
@@jonathanstone4878 The fish IS the problem. The Delta Smelt aren't even native to California and they flush millions upon millions of gallons of water into the ocean for it every year, and even worse the last time they took a Delta Smelt population survey they found ONE...nothing changed. If "billionaire farmers" want to divert the water to their farms THAT PRODUCE FOOD I have no problem with that. FYI... farmers don't control where the water is diverted to.
@@jonathanstone4878 You mean the liar video about how a farming company uses 1% of the total water use of the state which meanwhile can't build reservoirs because environmentalists won't let them? You know in theory we're supposed to have more than enough water to supply all our farmers AND all our cities?
The fish you are referring to is an endangered species. The ones you buy from the bait shop is different from the one that is found in the wild.
@@allenliu8820 that‘s also not correct- there are different type of smelt, and the general smelt population can be found basically all over globally, only two Californian subtypes have been put on the list.
Best quote I've seen on this so far:
"LA County: 72 genders, 0 operational fire hydrants."
I’m leaving the likes at 72
@@dchiznit209 I changed it to 73
Asmon's Ted Cruz analogy is wrong. Karen Bass left for vacation the same day the fires started.
The raiding party started the boss and she immediately peace'd out the second they aggro'd it
Classic roach out
Hearth used, not enough budget to pay for a flight back. Son deleted her mount now has to walk.
Also a US Senator has no power inside their state, so Ted Cruz couldn't do anything about the situation anyway. A mayor and the governor are the two people most responsible for handling the disaster as it's happening.
Peace'd? Aggro'd? Where did you learn to use apostrophes?
@@Sleeptastic Yup, that exactly. It still probably wasn't the best look for Ted Cruz to peace out of Texas when he did, but also he's not the guy who's responsible in that scenario, unlike the mayor of LA and the Governor of the State.
My family... of which only one was moderately affected by the fires, had a meeting today. We all live in Los Angeles. I have been subtly introducing the idea of moving to another state for years. Today... for the first time, the elders are discussing it. This is serious. I should mention... we are ALL African Americans, and we have ALL (14 of us) left the democrat party within the last 10 years. We want leaders who focus on the major necessities of their constituents... not the exotic nuances of the small minority (DEI BS, identity politics, defund police, etc etc). I'm looking forward to leaving this hellhole.
Good luck!
Consider changing political party, and look at PA or NJ. They are purple states, leaning red right now, with good classical liberal values, and if you avoid the cities, there is no wokeness, but plenty of Classical Liberal types. I am a Republican, but Fetterman is a good Democrat that I can get behind and probably more what you're looking for.
@VyseMalice nj resident here, do not go to North Jersey. South of Trenton if you want to live in a sane place
@@bridoc519 I was born in Easton, Warren County is nice; Phillipsburg is kinda low income, but isn't a bad place, same for Alpha and the surrounding areas.
“Exotic nuances of the small minority.” Wow. That states it so perfectly.
Fallout producers going all out for season 2...
I was already making some references to the game. Though holding out for season 2 and the NCR.
some homes lost but its healing earth [[
I listen to fallout music while driving to work to make light of the situation
They delayed filming for season 2 because of the fire
A new Fallout would be great, unfortunately Bethesda is dead.
The insurance companies canceled a lot of policies mostly because the government wasn't doing what it needed to to lower the risk of something like this happening. They had plenty of opportunities to do controlled Burns and make sure the reservoirs were full and they didn't. I don't blame them for canceling the policies I blame the government for being incompetent
I don't think fire hydrant is gonna do much with fire on this scale. if the wind is right and condition is favorable, the fire is just gonna sweep evrything.
They blame insurance compaies while sending the risk through the roof and not allowing premiums to go up to match the risk. I don't blame the company for protecting itself from stupid government laws.
the world is healing greatly
amazing... spoken like a perfect corporate fascist shill
Ya this is mainly on California for not reassuring insurance companies to stay to make a lot of these higher risk areas safer by taking the right steps to prevent them from exploding
You can get a policy from the state if you were cancelled BUT the premiums are exorbitant and people who aren’t wealthy can’t afford it.
As much as I loath insurance I agree
why is anyone ever surprised by the mismanagement of this state and it's resources
As a Californian, I never am...some counties are.cities are better then others, either dem or republican but i swear it's not called lost angeles for no reason..democrats are absolutely useless their yet keep power
Sheeple
I dunno, I'm in Nevada and witness it all the time as a neighbor, but every once in a while it still impresses me.
They are the hyper tied to the environmentalist activist identity, and have failed to acknowledge the reality that science regarding the environment has been tainted by political interest for 30 years. Of course they are shocked when their good intentions lead to a hellscape inferno breaking out in their back yard.
It's hard not to be impressed by the incompetence of that states government
Ted Cruz is a Senator for the State, representing the state in Washington, not the Mayor of a town that is burning.
That basic fact actively gets ignored whenever it's directed at someone with an R next to their name.
Meanwhile, Ds, Leftist and Rergressives who are in charge over an area will actively be derelict to everything while blaming everyone for every negative outcome from their dereliction.
Yeah, and what business does the mayor of a city have taking a taxpayer funded trip to Ghana. Ted left for Mexico during a power outage. In Texas. Big deal. We had a storm in upstate NY in the 90s and I was without power for over 30 days, in the middle of winter, and we just delt with it. We literally got water out of our pool by drilling a hole with an ice auger and the only hot meals we had was what we could cook on a kerosene heater.
pretty sure he represents texas
@@songhan1586Representing the state of Texas in Washington DC
@@songhan1586Representing is not the same thing as leading. Mayors and Governors lead and command the cities and states (respectively). A senator has no power to call anything to action. The Senator can try to get bills/laws pass that will benefit the state as a member of the legislative branch, but the Governor is the head of the executive branch that can call for National Guard and FEMA, as well as help organize emergency responses.
6:35 how quickly people forgot about the floods in NC and TN
they still have to pay full property tax, despite their property no longer existing.
they will be in government debt forever and basically unable to ever have a home again.
15 minute cities are easier to build on ashes.
Yup 😂
15 minute city is a terrible marketing term. Even Nagoya isn't technically a 15 minute city, but its still massively well built.
dude not a big issue
some homes lost but its healing earth ,,
@@JustaHarmfulguy 🤡
We rely on the government to rebuild. I lost my house in a tornado. It was cheaper for me to rebuild it.
Not like the private sector gonna do much either. They gonna put up a poorly put together house that’s not level or flush that somehow passed code.
One reason the winds are so strong is that the fire itself creates its own weather system from the extreme heat they generate.
It's a self feeding system, lots of dry brush/trees fuel the fire, the fire generates heat, the heat creates winds, the wind spreads the fire quickly which feeds on more dry brush which grows larger and creates more heat and more wind.
Yup, where their was 50 mph gusts (bad enough) there were now 80 mph gusts
That's true, but I believe this was mainly just an intense Santa Ana wind event, as I don't believe there were any dry thunderstorms reported nor pyrocumulous spotted, but I may be wrong.
True but the day leading up to this before fires had broken out there were already reports of 80-100mph gusts coming.
That's scary
“Like a good neighbor, State Farm evacuated their business.” 😂 Yep.
Let me tell you a story about 'accountability':
In Japan, there was a small town mayor who was REALLY unpopular for erecting the biggest sea wall in the country, was scolded for years for 'wasting taxpayer money'. Some years after his natural death, the sea wall saved the town from a tsunami, with only the port outside the wall being damaged. He went from being a laughingstock to a martyr. Later, an ancient stone sign was found, saying "Do not build below this sign." The town sat below it. If it wasn't for the 'wasteful' seawall, the town would have been destroyed.
While we want to blame leaders for everything, think about it from their perspective. They might do the right thing, but then their political opponents attack them to take power for themselves. It takes a special kind of strength to persevere despite the peer pressure. The mayor was never able to reap the benefits of being right, but he did what he did selflessly. If somebody isn't selfless, if they view their station as 'just a job', they aren't going to do heroic things like that mayor. They're gonna cash out as much as they can before the next election cycle, because of how temperamental voters can be. Why fix the infrastructure, when the idiots are calling for more welfare? You can't get voted in otherwise if you have no personal connection with people.
In the end, the town erected a statue of the deceased mayor that had saved them from the grave.
Yeah. The mayor of our town has been catching mad shit for spending a lot of money on rebuilding a dam designed to mitigate those once in 300 years flood events. "It's unnecessary, it's been like this for a century and it's gonna stand for another one" so on and so forth.
Guess what, there was a once in a 300 years flood event last year. The much bigger neighboring town has flooded. Ours has not. The dam held out. Barely, with the water reaching the top, even with the firefighters pumping the thing down. But it held.
This was the first year no one complained when he said how much we would need to finish the work on the dam. The guy must be a saint, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold myself from being smugness incarnate I were in his shoes.
As a person who worked for the same insurance company for over 20+ years... They are the scums of the earth. We make billions in profit and lay off our own people if our profits were L:ESS than the previous year (yes profits)... and i have seen deducyibles rise from a few dollars to THOUSANDS of dollars. I am just an employee, and yes AI is also taking away my job slowly.... every year we need less people because we have a new "AI" system that replaced them... i am a no body in my company and whhen i die, my position will either be replaced by a human or AI within a day or 2 and no one will remember me at my job
And Japan is currently fked 😂
People need to get humbled, it should be in the school curriculum about being a humble and decent human. being.
Except we have major wildfires literally every single year in California.
He doesn’t understand LA daily doesn’t need a natural disaster in order to cause multi hour back ups.
i think it's why people were so fast to abandon their cars. They know it'll be faster to walk by experience.
When it starts raining is does the same thing to a lesser extent.
This was avoidable if CA did things right months ago.
Not months ago, at any point in the last 50 years.
Years ago
The last decade plus of fires would never have got this bad with proper management
Century ago
What should they have done?
People saying the trees are fake are the most uneducated humans I’ve ever witnessed
My favorite conspiracy theory right now is that the private Equity firms and insurance companies are behind this and they're going to swoop in and buy all these properties cheap afterwards
That's not even a theory. It's fact. The conspiracy theory would be ill intentions or planning it. I think they just capitalize off of inevitable destruction.
Well, a lot of people mentioned in the comments about how Hawaii was very similar
private companies for sure set fires in greece for the land
Since insurance companies make at lot of money by investing in private equity firms using insurance premiums, I guess you are partially right.
Happened in Hawaii
State Farm is a private Mutual Insurance company meaning it is owned by it's policy holders. I'm sure the other policy holders are perfectly happy with not increasing their premium to pay for homes in high risk areas.
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is [ _evacuating_ ]
Gavin Newsom should be put in jail.
Guantanamo
For what
@@MrWizardGG If you have to ask there's no explanation that's going to make sense to you.
Ballistics.
@@TRIIGGAVELLI that's what I thought
I live in cali bro and I’m struggling out here 😭🙏
I know somebody that had their house burned to the ground.. This is a horrible situation. Hoping everybody affected is okay.
My wife’s aunts house I believe was burnt down. They left Pasadena when the fire was a block away and it was approaching them fast. They haven’t gone back yet, but from what they heard, it’s gone. It’s really sad.
Should have left california years ago and stop voting for people who enable it.
@@RvR_22 not a single ripple in your brain. Smoothest in all the land
House I rented for 10 years is gone. Lost in the Eaton Canyon Fire. Luckily, I moved to Texas last spring.
if you live in CA you had it coming
In that satellite view of the Eaton Canyon Fire, you can see where the house I rented for 10 years used to be. I moved to Texas last spring.....
@@JustaHarmfulguy It stirred you up enough to reply I see.... and yet the world keeps on spinning.
What a weird thing to be triggered over.... huh.
@@JustaHarmfulguy Guy says 2 sentances, how is that yapping? He's just sharing a personal anecdote, ignore it and move on if it's such an issue for you.
@@JustaHarmfulguy what're you yappin' about?
Good for u
@@JonaD757 Children will be children
Property value is not the same as replacement value…
$100 million? Are you kidding?
10M maybe
As a non American, I don't understand the hate Ted Cruz got. He is a Senator,right. His job isn't to manage Texas but to represent Texas in DC. Why don't people talk about the governor and the city mayors in Texas? Is this a political thing?
Bingo. Just lime bush got flack for Katrina. He did all he could its was up to tje state government to ask for help and because theu are democrat and je is republican they refised help till tje last minute
It’s because we have a separation of federal and state government. the federal and state government managed different things. Ultimately its the local government who manages the resources, but the federal government tells the state government what to do though in DC
Because most people don't even understand the structure of the government. They just think the people in the "top positions" are in charge of everything when that isn't how it works. Basically, the government over time is too big and complicated for people to fully understand, so average person doesn't try anymore.
Even if the public was interested in fixing these problems with their government, they wouldn't be able to because unless you make understanding the government your entire life (only something gov workers and other certain types of bureaucrats can do), it isn't reasonable to expect people to know who in charge of this complex system. Which only makes corruption easier to perform and harder to root out, which is probably about half of why the system has been turned into the complicated mess it has.
@@Rune_fantasy so Ted Cruz should have petitioned some bill in Dc to tell Texas what to do instead of letting the locals deal with?
It's honestly weird watching this while it pours rain outside my window.
👀 Wild listening to this when my county just had to refill the reservoir after the city decided not to maintain our water pumps and everything broke 😅 the hell is going on with the water situations this year
It's snowing here. And yes it's bizarre.
it's honestly weird for me too, and im on the toilet dropping a fat dump.
@@MindofMichaelMyers Kinda wish I could send the water there. I live in Australia and have experienced wildfires unfortunately.
It's Snowing where I am at. Got to love the frozen tundra.
to be fair, ted cruise is not in executive government, he's not really in charge of anything during a disaster scenario.
But thats how the msm manipulates the public. They tell their bs fake stories and people believe it. The fact that Cruises name is even being brought up is pure deflection.
Is he related to Tom Cruise?
Ironic that they save something called a smelt and the state gets smelted.
How do you charge an electric car when the power grid went up in flames?
They also shut down a lot of the grid to try and prevent powerlines from starting more fires.
Lithium batteries arent flammable right?
@@RAWBOT301 i dont know lets ask the maker they will be honest 🤔
Solar panels... duh?😂
@@tinycat8338 you'd need some pretty massive solar panels, and you wouldn't be able to travel anywhere during the day.
Tes cruz is a us senator so he could introduce legislation that might help down the line, but he's not a state executive so it's not like he can immediately have any effect during a state emergency. The mayor of of city being gone is a much worse thing than a US senator
Was making sure someone posted this😃
At least someone gets it.
Finally at the end and it's sad to see asmond talk about how it's common sense when he clearly doesn't get which government positions are there to do what. I don't really give two shits about ted cruz, but best case if he tried passing preemptive legislation to prepare texas specifically for cold weather then people would call it pork.
I have state farm and live in nor cal. My premium was doubled last year, then just got a notice last week saying it is doubled on the double amount. My family has been with state farm for probably around 80 years. They have been trying to get rid of our policy since the camp fire. Our agent literally told us if we can't afford our new premium they would be glad to cancel our policy. No one else will insure us at this point due to the mismanagement of this state.
I actually wonder how many employers in that area told their employees they'd be fired if they evac instead of showing up for work.
Yeah I live in the LA Area, and for “out of staters,” there are a lot of “regular Walmart Americans” caught up in this. Not everyone is a rich celeb.
In fact, 98% of us are “Walmart Americans”. So people taking advantage of this as an opportunity to push a political agenda are morons.
Did you care about North Carolina, Georgia and Florida not getting FEMA aid because there might be a Trump flag in their yard? Probably not. Hate that its happening to those around you, but maybe burst your bubble and realize you reap what you sow
Sorry, no compassion here. Living in an earthquake, mudslide, and wildfire ridden area doesn’t make sense. When the weather is great you all brag about it and rub it in on the rest of Americans.
Pacific palisades people vote for the people that mismanaged this mess, this LITERALLY could have been PREVENTED
@@NormFC Yes, most people did care about the victims of hurricanes in California and elsewhere. You need to spend less time online and talk to the average non-political non-brainrotted human. For your own sake, and ours.
Its mother nature punishing California for not being a good forest steward
fires are part of the natural cycle here, only thing they can do is control the frequency and severity of the fires. so its not exactly mother nature punishing, its mother nature doing its thing while humans are the cats that run into its legs then blame it for getting ran over
i thought they established it was due to the Jewish space lazers.
"it's gotta be DEI's fault" 😂
I keep a picture of the Smelt fish in my wallet to know what we're really fighting for here.
"Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm Cares Less"
Honestly, that sounds like a great neighbor though 😂 live your own liiiiife
They couldn’t justify that shit. Everyone’s rates around the fucking country will go up.
Actuaries are hired to determine rates based on probability, and California is like “Nah fuck your predictive models, if you want to do business here you can’t charge more than X or you can leave.”
So they left 🤷🏻♂️
Come on man, "Like a psycho neighbor, State Farm don't care"
Mostly peaceful wildfires
It burnt through incredibly populated areas and has burnt well over 5000 structures
As an atheist, this is the strongest arguement ive seen for a God, smited the child transition supporters, the diddy supporters and crime apologists in one fell swoop
nah its still causal.
idiots vote idiots that do idiotic things that lead to idiotic and devastating consequences.
this was just darwinism on a macroscale.
I feel like he's literally swinging, left AND right lately
I had State Farm until I recently switched carriers. I had been with them for 25 years, had home, auto, and life policies. Even though we had literally never filed a claim with them, for anything, our premiums almost doubled this year. When I talked to my agent he told me the reason my prices skyrocketed, in NY, was because of the fires in California. I know that a TON of people cancelled their policies because of this, which is another reason they ditched Californians.
They avoided doing any kind of forest maintenance so that fires would happen so they could scream see climate change until it got a little too out of control is exactly what’s going on here. It’s going on in Canada as well.
Australia too
Even Native Americans hundreds of years ago did burns to keep the brush down and renew the forest.
10000 this. Canada literally thry said it was the dry pine. gov said, nahhhh climate change.. cant touch it.. fire burns down town, Gilbert blames climate change... aka.. not my problem now give me money so I can go to dubai
100 they use this to push climate crap
There's so many laws that prevent you from even moving a twig, it's impossible to get anything done. After spending a few million on environmental reviews and permit fees you might get an acre of brush cleared out.
Smelt Fish are fine, right? more important that human life apparently. what a waste of effort and resources. Now more people will see this as an opportunity to leave CAL
They will move to Portland like to almost all do, and it will continue to get way worse here because of it.
Smelt Lives Matter
Oh, good. Idk what my life would be like if that fish wasn't safe.
Save the Smelt!
Among other things, I think this is ultimately exactly what they want. I don't want to go off on any "zany conspiracy theories" but you can probably put some of the bigger pieces together on your own without even thinking too hard.
In California, some efforts to prevent wildfires involve using reservoirs and water storage systems to improve water availability for firefighting and land management. Key ideas include:
1. Expanding Water Storage: Increasing reservoir capacities ensures sufficient water supply during the dry season for wildfire suppression. Larger reservoirs can provide more resources for helicopters, planes, and ground crews fighting fires.
2. Strategic Water Distribution: Installing or improving infrastructure, such as pumps and pipelines, to quickly distribute water from reservoirs to areas at high risk for wildfires.
3. Fuel Management with Water: Using controlled irrigation or water from reservoirs to create “green belts” or moist zones around fire-prone areas. These act as barriers to slow or stop the spread of wildfires.
4. Hydropower Revenue for Fire Prevention: Leveraging revenue from hydropower generated at reservoirs to fund wildfire prevention programs, such as controlled burns, vegetation management, and community protection initiatives.
5. Post-Wildfire Reservoir Maintenance: Cleaning out ash and debris from reservoirs after wildfires to ensure water quality and preserve capacity for firefighting needs.
These strategies align with broader wildfire mitigation plans that also include better forest management, reducing hazardous vegetation, and adopting advanced technologies for early fire detection.
Thanks for the ChatGPT hallucination.
Most of these things are illegal to CA law.
Good to see they are (not) working
@@VyseMalice They're not. You have to understand why they don't work.
1. Water storage for example only works when you have consistent rainfall, which California hasn't had for over 15 years. Expanding water storage isn't going to do anything when you don't have water to work with. Two years of above average rain doesn't fix that problem. You need more than half a decade. Plus if you attempt to capture the water in any way, you also prevent that water from reaching the lands that need it. So while people like to whine and complain about a fish, long term, you don't want to restrict that flow of water unless you want to make problems worse.
2. The same issue goes for "strategic water distribution". It only works if you have a steady supply of water, which you don't have thanks to a decade of drought. At best, you're going to thin the amount of water you have rather than perhaps concentrating it into areas that need it, making the problem even worse.
3. and 4. Fuel management with water relies on the cooperation of an interstate compact between all those with access to the Colorado River as well because in case you forgot, that's where a lot of the water comes from. You'd have to get the likes of Colorado, Ohio, and Nevada to agree to it. The same applies to much of the hydropower assuming you can even get the water that far. Good luck with that one, especially once you start telling the rest of the country what they're going to have to give up.
4. and 5. Fire prevention is largely hindered by the fact that the most flammable lands tends to be under the jurisdiction of the federal government rather than the state government. The Palisade and Eaton Fires this time around began in federally managed lands in which the state of California has no jurisdiction. Forest management and clearing of debris would have to be done either with the cooperation of Congress or under their direction. You're better off complaining to the Congressman or Senator in your area than about the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Yeah... i don't think Statefarm is wrong.... the fault is not prevent this horror... they need to prevent those wildfires
At least, have water to stop the fire... holy
This happens at least once a year in California, in different parts of the state. All it takes is one unlucky night where the air is dry, the winds are powerful, and the fire starts in the hills where firefighters can't get to it quick enough. The lack of resources in LA (after the fact) is a different story.
Don’t you think counter measures such as controlled burns or trench digging would prevent such blazes from reaching population centers?
Yes but California stopped prescribed burns years ago...dumb decision
You can never stop a wild fire from happening, completely but you can limit its spread and damage ......those burns are sooooo healthy and needed for the land....now that fire will lead to landslides
@@radianthaze5332 Not with how those winds were howling
In the end Californians will probably vote even further left . Melt the smelt
Right, left. Doesn't matter. Wake up please.
@@paytonthornberry1382 it does matter
@SWOTHDRA when only one side keeps making votes directed to help foreign assets or tax you more, it becomes appaent one side is anti for you
@@paytonthornberry1382while I do agree, I feel as though right wing states are ran better than left wing states from what I’ve heard and seen. But that mostly has to do with those politicians being less corrupt, or surprisingly not corrupt at all. I’m pretty Gavin Newsom might be the most corrupt governor in the country.
Not from the US and I know gavin cut the budget for the fire services spent 25 million to trump Prof the state crazy and when trump was in power he sued to stop water being sent over that way over a fish didn't build water storage ponds for rain water for such a problem with record rain fall also don't help he removed all the dams on the river so no place for aircraft to get water safely and no control burns happing its a must in super dry climates like australia cail ect spending money in all the wrong ways
Insurance is a scam, but if it was run by the government it would be soooo much worse. You don't want them to run more than a police department, fire department and building and maintaing roads. California could have all the water it could ever need if they built a nuclear plant and several desalination plants along the coast
reason why this fire spread is because of public fire departments. private only. let the poor eat cake
@@aSSGoblin1488 No one is buying this comment
Water operator here - the water towers are filled by wells which pump water up to the tower. The head pressure of all that elevated water in the tower is pushing down with force through all of the pipes in the water system.
When the water in the tower runs low , you lose pressure, and if you lose enough pressure, you don’t have enough to push the water up a mountainside.
The wells (if they have wells and drill) can only pump so much water from the ground into the system
This happened because of forest mismanagement and policies that cause drought and limit the water supply to California
weaponized incompetence.
And ohio lighting it up
Were those policies only implemented under Newsom or has this been a thing building up over decades? E.g. since (or before) Arnold was governor?
But the fishies are happy! Please think about the fishies.
The fish is extinct 😅
Blame the fish, yeah. 😂
Fishies watching this all go down under water 😂
Glub glub can confirm
How can anyone blame the insurance company in this situation? Their business model is to sell you security. 100 people pay in, 10 cash out, they make a profit. If year after year, 50 people cash out instead and they start losing money, they have to raise prices or stop insuring people, it's that simple. If the state says they can't raise prices, that doesn't leave them with a lot of options.
And this happened IN MARCH, almost a year ago. The people had more than enough time to get new insurance.
Maybe they should stop paying out millions to celebrities for advertising then?? 😂