Re: Has anyone heard from BTR1701 today?

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-01-09 4:49 AM, shawn wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:59:01 GMT, Ed Stasiak
<user1263@newsgrouper.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
 

 

Rhino
 
Given the fires that are all over LA and the fact that he hasn't posted,
it would be nice to now that he and his pets are somewhere safe.

 
Heard that the power was out in large parts of LA, both from the fires
damaging lines and the power company turning off lines to prevent
them from sparking fires.
 
Though I'd expect him to have a generator (unless Kalifornia finally
got around to banning them...).

 
Having a generator at your home won't help if the cable/telephone
companies equipment has been destroyed by the fires. It's so sad to
see how spread out the fires are so they are impacting a huge number
of people. Saw a sad video from CNN with James Woods who lost his home
in the fires and had a 90 something neighbor who wasn't mentally all
there who almost died in the fires. (Apparently left behind but with
the intent to come back for him, but the fire took out the house about
an hour after they did remove him so it could have gone so much
worse.)
 

I saw that too. I think Woods was still in shock. What a frightening
experience for all concerned! He's a good man for having checked with
the son to determine the neighbour was at the house instead of just
assuming that the old guy was safe in the hospital.
 

Looking at different videos it seems too many people didn't realize
how quickly the fires could spread. Which I get as even I would expect
the fires to spread slowly but with those winds of up to 80 MPH the
fires can spread so much faster than one would expect.
 

 
I hope they gather the smartest people available and try to figure out
some ways to prevent recurrences of this kind of problem

The 'progressives' in charge of this city, county, and state are singularly
uninterested in doing any of the things that mitigate these fires. If it's
not in the service of the Holy Trinity of California politics-- the
Vagrants, the Criminals, and the Illegal Aliens, peace be upon them-- then
they don't care about it and certainly don't want to spend any time or
money on it.

This is what you get when you vote for people based on their skin color,
gender, and sexual behavior rather than their intelligence and competence.
We're being led by idiots across the board.

Just look at our joke of a mayor, who checks all the right identity boxes,
but apparently thought it was good idea to fly off to Africa on a
taxpayer-funded junket AFTER the NWS had issued dire wind and fire warnings
for L.A. She slashed the budget of the fire department while ballooning the
budget of the entirely useless vagrant 'outreach' programs, which billions
of unaccounted for dollars later have only *increased* the number of
vagrants on the streets.

And it's the vagrants that start 95% of the fires in L.A.-- more than
14,000/year-- so ironically, the idiot we have for a mayor increased the
funding of the fire-starters while hamstringing the ability of the
fire-fighters to deal with them.

And our DEI hire of a fire chief says her top priority is to hire more
lesbian firefighters. Not, apparently, to ensure that water comes out of
the hydrants. And she makes $750,000/year for that level of stunning
incompetence.