California is being spanked

[mikey3000]

Overnight another fire brokeout in LA county right beside the Getty Museum, and right in my friends neighbourhood. I can't get a hold of him. What did they do to deserve this? : (

 

[FPNY]

Six friends of ours have evacuated their homes in Sonoma....Good luck to our Cali members.

 

[Alistair]

Not to be a smartass, but there's a lot of things they did. Built in fire prone areas, landscaped with fire sensitive plantings, changed rainfall collection so some areas dry up more, etc...etc...

I feel bad for those affected but it's a beast of our own making.

 

[Kahaih]

Not to be a smartass, but there's a lot of things they did. Built in fire prone areas, landscaped with fire sensitive plantings, changed rainfall collection so some areas dry up more, etc...etc...

I feel bad for those affected but it's a beast of our own making.

This is why I quite like the thread title - it fits.

 

[Latimer]

Any recommendations for beautiful, civilized places with great year-round weather that aren't subject to natural catastrophes? (I don't think I need the great year-round weather, but my partner keeps telling me it's essential.)

 

[Latimer]

I just looked at the map showing the mandatory and voluntary evacuation zones for the Getty fire and realized that I've designed six houses in these areas. Only in one case would you look at the neighborhood and its surroundings and think the houses would be threatened by fire.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I can't accept that any natural disasters are deserved. If that were so, we wouldn't have the Red Cross or Red Crescent.

 

[Kahaih]

. . . .

I feel bad for those affected but it's a beast of our own making.

I can't accept that any natural disasters are deserved. If that were so, we wouldn't have the Red Cross or Red Crescent.

What the goddamn flying fuck!?!?!?!?!

 

[Alistair]

What the goddamn flying fuck!?!?!?!?!

You're going to need to be a little more specific, or are you channeling your inner belamo?

 

[Kahaih]

You're going to need to be a little more specific, or are you channeling your inner belamo?

Screw it.

 

[Rickrock]

Although man is partially responsible, it is more due to nature. Or perhaps somewhat to overpopulation and global warming. (My own interpretation of what I have heard.)

 

[Latimer]

I can't accept that any natural disasters are deserved. If that were so, we wouldn't have the Red Cross or Red Crescent.

I think the point is that some places are more dangerous to live in or visit than others. I've always thought that if I chose to live in the hills above the coast in Malibu or similar places in the Santa Monica Mountains that I would have to accept the strong possibility that I would loose everything. A few years ago my partner refused to buy a house with me at the upper end of Stone Canyon in Bel Air, one of the most beautiful places to live in the area. He argued that even accepting the possibility of loosing everything, there was only one way in and out and that you could get killed in a fire while waiting in your car behind dozens of others also attempting to flee.

 

[mikey3000]

You're going to need to be a little more specific, or are you channeling your inner belamo?

Maybe all the people who die from tornadoes in the mid west also deserve it because they choose to live there? Or the folks who drown in hurricanes in the south because, you know, they choose to live there?
Got it. Thanks.

 

[Alistair]

Maybe all the people who die from tornadoes in the mid west also deserve it because they choose to live there? Or the folks who drown in hurricanes in the south because, you know, they choose to live there?
Got it. Thanks.

That's not what I said at all. But losing a house on the outer banks in a Hurricane is very comparable to losing a house from fire in CA.

 

[mikey3000]

It is exactly what you said.