Re: Reality Star Spencer Pratt Sues City Of L.A. After His Home Burns Down

On Feb 1, 2025 at 10:50:08 AM PST, "The Horny Goat" <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:24:28 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

What needs to happen is that a desalination plant needs to be constructed
somewhere along the coast near where these fires occur (Point Mugu or Point
Dume would be ideal) and a pumping station built so that freshwater can be
sent from it up to existing reservoirs. This is what a government actually
concerned with mitigating fires would do. Not hand out billions of dollars to
the drug addicts and mental patients who *start* 14,000 fires/year in L.A.

 
In our neck of the woods when they're really strapped they'll use
water bombers which scoop from rivers and fresh water lakes. Obviously
boaters are banned during these critical times.

Then there's the urban myth of a man in scuba gear who was found dead in the
burn area of a wildfire. The implication being that he was scuba diving in the
lake (or ocean) when one of those planes came along to scoop up water and
accidentally caught him at the same time, then flew over to the fire and
dumped him into the inferno.

They've never yet tapped the two reservoirs within 5 mi of my home but
I imagine they wouldn't hesitate in time of need. Right now it's
snowing outside so obviously today's not that day around here.