From: ahk@chinet.com
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.
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. 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.
--- SoupGate-DOS v1.05
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