From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>bryan_styble  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>You knew it was going to happen:  a KCBS/Los Angeles television   
   >>>correspondent has reported apparent would-be looters dodging police on   
   >>>electric scooters in the Hollywood Hills.   
   >   
   >>>Meanwhile, the familiar intersection of Highland Avenue & Hollywood   
   >>>Blvd. is under evacuation orders at 8:04 pm local Pacific Time as the   
   >>>fire lines creep down from the Santa Monica Mountains toward the   
   >>>Hollywood and West Hollywood commercial districts.   
   >   
   >>>Local weathercasters are offering a glimmer of hope with forecasts of   
   >>>somewhat abating Santa Ana wind velocities as The Southland approaches   
   >>>midnight.   
   >   
   >>CNN says 10 fatalities notified by the LA County Medical Examiner   
   >>but fire.ca.gov is still only saying 5.   
   >   
   >>The big fires are scarcely contained at all.   
   >   
   > They have firefighters and modern equipment and fireplugs at regular   
   > intervals throughout these builtup areas.   
      
   "Not designed to handle these types of fires",I've read.   
      
   > They have no water pressure. California does not keep reservoirs filled   
   > with adequate water levels. During heavy rainstorms, water isn't allowed   
   > to percolate back into the shallow acquifir. Their entire drainage   
   > system is still directing fresh water from heavy rainstorms into the   
   > ocean as it's been doing for decades if not more than a century in some   
   > places.   
   >   
   > These idiots live in desert and build houses in dry forested areas and   
   > they utterly fail to take the most basic steps to conserve water.   
      
   And now they're about to be stuck with a President who demands their   
   Governor abandon whatever steps HAVE been taken.   
      
   > They have failed to redesign drainage systems that shouldn't have been   
   > built in the first place.   
   >   
   > They elect government after government after government that refuses to   
   > address this entirely manmade problem. But that's ok, because if you   
   > blame climate change, that's an all-purpose excuse.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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