California Dreaming No More 3

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/09/susan_crabtree_fires_obliterate_emissions_gains_from_californias_green_policies.html

 

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Prescribed burns were stopped that could have prevented the rapid spread of wildfires in high risk areas. See attached article on Utility getting sued for trying to clear brush in utility easements and replace wood poles with steel to prevent wildfire ignition and rapid spreading.

Quote: "Wildfire Woes: California Regulators Halted Palisades Fire Prevention Project to Save Rare Shrub"​

Quote "In 2019, the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) set out to replace aging wooden power poles - some nearly a century old - with fire-resistant steel poles and widen fire-access lanes in the wildfire-prone Topanga State Park. The $2 million project was designed to bolster fire safety after the area was deemed an "elevated fire risk."

"This project will help ensure power reliability and safety, while helping reduce wildfire threats," the LADWP stated at the time, the NY Post reports.

But the effort came to an abrupt halt when an amateur botanist hiking through the park noticed that some of the rare Braunton’s milkvetch shrubs - an endangered species with only a few thousand wild specimens - had been damaged during the work. Conservationists raised alarms, accusing the city of working without proper permits, and California’s Coastal Commission ordered the LADWP to stop the project, replant the damaged shrubs, and pay $2 million in fines.

Fast forward to 2024: Nearly 24,000 acres - including much of Topanga Canyon - have gone up in smoke, taking with them not only homes and wildlife but the same shrubs the project was supposed to protect.

The Palisades Fire has destroyed 12,000 homes, businesses, schools and other structures - and has claimed at least 24 lives, and left thousands displaced. Meanwhile, firefighters struggled with low water pressure and empty hydrants as they battled the inferno."

Wildfire Woes: California Regulators Halted Palisades Fire Prevention Project to Save Rare Shrub | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[TugboatEng]

Any theory as to why disease may be more likely to strike Democratic chickens?

Why yes, California banned the sale of eggs from chickens that are not "cage-free" in 2022 with prop 12. California chickens get more exposure to wild birds which is how they contract bird flu. I only know California specifically but there may be other states.

As for the culling, there is a declaration of emergency that doesn't clearly state what will be done but we are experiencing a shortage of eggs and high prices that follow a mass culling so put one and two together...

 

[GregLocock]

It takes a few months for the chicken flock to get rebuilt after a mass culling. One of our friends runs a free range chicken and sheep rotational farm, and is understandably concerned about bird flu, since we have outbreaks of H7 about an hour's drive from here. He now uses town water for the chickens rather than dam water.

 

[TugboatEng]

Little do they know, California banned the sale of this type of equipment.

Creator of homemade water pump that saved home from Palisades Fire speaks out

A San Gabriel Valley man who built a water pump that was credited with saving a home from the Palisades Fire is getting inundated with calls and emails from apprehensive homeowners looking to protect their homes from the next time tragedy strikes.

www.nbclosangeles.com

 

[Compositepro]

Who will start the pump and keep it running when neighborhoods are under mandatory evacuation orders? It used to be that homeowners would be on their roofs with garden hoses to put out embers that land. Now you see hundreds of homes all together burned to ash with plastic trash cans still intact on the streets in front of them. This evacuation policy is the main cause of the degree of devastation we are seeing. It is like the policy not to resist hijackers that resulted in 9/11.

 

[TugboatEng]

Welcome to the darkside. I will include a photograph of my new cowboy assault rifle, a must for anyone interested in protecting their home.

We all need to stop relying on gooberment to protect ourselves. They're a handy asset but they can't be everywhere within thee timeframe required

 

[dtimberlake]

Hi TBE,

What make and model is your long gun?

When I first saw the lever in your picture I was imagining this -

https://media.tenor.com/V06yNnCTfYsAAAAM/the-rifleman-chuck-connors.gif

thanks,

Dan T

 

[TugboatEng]

Henry Big Boy carbine in 45 Colt. it's a soft shooter using standard factory loads but if you hand load it can exceed the performance of 44 magnum.