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Life-threatening' windstorm fans fires in Southern Calaifornia as blazes burn in Los Angeles

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  1. adoo

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    i repeat

    Traci Parks criticism was about the # of fire stations; the dishonest fish wrap, thru sleight of hand, added "# of fire fighters)
    Parks left out the details about the fire stations had been modernized / enlarged to accomodate more fire fighters.​
     
  2. Os Trigonum

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    and I repeat: she either made that statement or she did not. It's called reporting. She was quoted in the article and I passed the article along.
     
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    Leftists are evil.

     
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    Did god win the battle yet?

    If you just want to be around a bunch of big muscle-y men in their underwear LaBare's is a lot closer than California
     
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    Haha. These maga bros man. Such closeted vibes with so many of them. When your favorite song to close out the night with your Cleric in Chief hero is YMCA that pretty much tells us all we need to know.
     
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    That's why they troll and troll and troll the Internet now that California has fires ranging, for stuff to share pointing blame. It's sick minded types that get off on a disaster happening in California. Finger pointing is what they love doing, deflecting from the fact that their own states have had thousands of people die in natural disasters, and raked in billions and billions of dollars in damages.

    When it comes to deaths and billions and billions of dollars in damage from natural disasters, Louisiana, Florida, and Texas lead the country. It isn't even close. The trolls on threads like this know that though. They can't be that stupid. They just love when it's not their own states for once.

    1. Hurricane Katrina (2005), $201.3 billion in damage
    Deaths: 1,833

    Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts — in particular, New Orleans.

    2. Hurricane Harvey (2017), $160.0 billion in damage
    Deaths: 89

    Texas

    3. Hurricane Ian (2022), $119.6 billion in damage
    Deaths: 152

    Florida

    4. Hurricane Maria (2017), $115.2 billion in damage
    Deaths: 2,981

    Puerto Rico and St. Croix, and Florida

    5. Superstorm Sandy (2012), $88.5 billion in damage
    Deaths: 159

    New Jersey and New York

    6. Hurricane Ida (2021), $84.6 billion in damage
    Deaths: 96

    Louisiana

    7. Hurricane Helene (2024), $78.7 billion in damage
    Deaths: 219

    Florida

    8: Hurricane Irma (2017), $64.0 billion in damage
    Deaths: 97

    U.S. Virgin Islands, St. John and St. Thomas, Florida, and South Carolina.

    9. Hurricane Andrew (1992), $60.5 billion in damage
    Deaths: 61

    Florida

    10. Drought and heat wave (1988), $54.6 billion in damage
    Deaths: 454

    1988’s drought struck a large portion of the U.S., with severe losses to agriculture and related industries; the upper Midwest was particularly hard hit. Eleven states officially declared all of their counties disaster areas.

    11. Great Flood of 1993, $46.3 billion in damage
    Deaths: 48

    Storms get official names from the U.S. government; floods don’t. But the persistent heavy rains and thunderstorms that swelled the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries became known as the Great Flood of 1993.

    12. Hurricane Ike (2008), $43.2 billion in damage
    Deaths: 112

    Texas and Louisiana

    https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow...e-natural-disasters-in-u-s-history/index.html
     
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    Washington Post gift article, link will work for everyone

    A key ‘weakness’ in L.A.'s wildfire strategy went unaddressed for years, Post probe shows
    In a memo that has not been previously reported, chief told city fire commissioners that L.A. relied almost entirely on overburdened “hand crews” from other jurisdictions to handle its brush fire emergencies.

    https://wapo.st/4gW3Wxd

    excerpt:

    Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley identified “one significant area of weakness” in her department’s ability to contain wildfires. L.A. had no specialized wildland unit to respond to daily brush fires and scrape vegetation, dig ditches and do the other labor to ensure blazes did not spread or rekindle, she wrote on Jan. 5, 2023, asking for $7 million to assemble its own squad.

    In a memo that has not been previously reported, she told city fire commissioners that L.A. relied almost entirely on overburdened “hand crews” from other jurisdictions to bring such muscle to its brush fire emergencies. Hand crews, the most elite of which are sometimes called “hotshots,” fight wildfires with chain saws, axes and shovels, setting containment lines and then sticking around to meticulously monitor smoldering fires, feeling by hand for heat and digging out live spots to make sure fires don’t relight.

    The city staffed its own team — made up of unpaid, mostly teenage volunteers — only on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school. Crowley warned the commission that there would inevitably come a day when L.A. would need the important grunt work of a “hand crew” and one would not be available, which could “mean the difference in containment or out of control spread.”
    more at the link

     
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    :D
     
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    The Art of the Deal

     
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    He is now defending arsonists.
    The forest must be gay.
     
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    It's the art of the deal of a sick and twisted psycho of a President, that's for sure, to use his political stipulations on a Governor when it comes to getting aid to Americans in desperate need of help. It's like the COVID nightmare all over again. Just wait until hurricane season when he expects governors to take care of their own states, and cut FEMA funding and personnel. If it doesn't make him money, if it doesn't put money into his greedy grifting hands, then he doesn't give a damn.
     
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    Those are red states. He'll fund those no problem.
     
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    I guess favors for loyalty do matter most to him, so as long as those governors bend a knee, grovel at his feet, and follow his barking orders without hesitation you are probably right.
     
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    And then Texas, Florida, and Louisiana will stop building along the coasts to continue to receive their disaster relief aid?
     
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    You and @cml750 and @CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul are awfully worried about California Fires( a place you likely dont live), about Transgender bathrooms, and the definition of "Woke" threads

    Tell me, why is it that you dont care about idk...things like the economy, drug prices, stopping research, LOWERING EGG PRICES. What about that?? Why all this?

    Also why is Trump asking for voter ID when three was no evidence of voter fraud?

    Tell me why? Dont you guys want to talk about the important things.
     
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