Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Fact-Checking About California Wildfires and Water Policy

PBS does a long fact check on the California wildfires, pointing the misinformation being spread by the incoming President.

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So, they are discussing tying the money California desperately needs cause of the wildfires to giving Trump the ability to give the richest people in this country massive tax cuts. Fucking evil. ow.ly/5E2C105WIUB

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-- Maxwell Frost (@maxwellfrost.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM

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MAGATS are too retarded to read this.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-13 08:26 PM

This is a hilarious article, my neighborhood is still under one day a week (Wed) watering rationing rules, just started 1 year ago, previously was on 2 a week since after COVID. Record rains for 2 years in a row, and rationing is worse. Go figure.

I spend $240 a month on my water bill. Only $20 of which is actually water.

State is in disrepair, but being paid as a State employee, Or a PUC is a great job.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-14 10:30 AM

Here some facts.

Prior to 1800, California lost an average of about 4.5 million acres to fires every year.

As scientific land management and fire suppression. measures were introduced, that dropped to around 250,000 acres a year by the end of the 20th century.

But in 2020 California lost 4.3 million acres to wildfires in a single year. Between 2019 and 2023 the average was about 1.5 million acres a year.

Going as planned I'd say.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-14 10:33 AM

Here's another strange thing ..

In 2019 Democrat assembly HALTED a fire safety project in Pacific Palisades to replace wooden electric poles with steel ones, and the installation of wind and fire-resistant power lines.

Why?

Because an "amateur botanist" complained that utility workers were trampling too many Braunton's Milkvetch, a perennial herb in the pea family.

Yet, the plants the botanist was concerned about were destroyed by the recent wildfires anyway.

Wild...

Crews for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power recently bulldozed hundreds of federally endangered plants in Topanga State Park, and both state and city authorities have launched investigations into DWP's actions, part of a wildfire prevention project aimed at replacing 200 aging wooden power poles with steel ones.

"In response to recent community concerns about protected plants in the construction area, the LADWP has halted construction and is working with biologists and other experts to conduct an investigation and assessment of the site," Stephanie Spicer, a spokeswoman for the city water and power agency, said late Wednesday in response to inquiries from The Times.
www.latimes.com

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-14 12:19 PM

Posted by oneironaut

LOL!!!

What a complete idiot.

#5 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-01-14 06:22 PM

Take Oneironaut's claims with a grain of salt.

He claimed the LA fire chief got canned. Found not true with a 5 second google search.
He also claimed that 60 vehicles from Oregon were not used due to emissions. Also untrue. it was 75 vehicles and they were used.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-14 06:57 PM

Taking a step back about the water issue.

Let me ask, what municipal water supply system is capable of supplying the water needed to doused the flames of a wild fire of this magnitude?

Normally, when a house is burning, one or two firetrucks show up, attach a hose or two to the hydrant and try to extinguish the flames.

Now extrapolate that to a whole neighborhood, 100's of houses, burning down under near-hurricane force winds.

What municipal water system is designed for that?



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-14 07:02 PM

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