A good friend who grew up in Pacific Palisades recently moved his
elderly parents to an assisted living.
As it unfolds, they are on the very edge of the acutely threatened zone,
holding on for evacuation orders (at least the facility will
"facilitate" that as it would not have been reasonable at all in their
90s to self-evacuate if they were still in the family home. The family
home, built in the 60s was purchased by a private developer (after much
negotiation) to surely be razed and replaced by a mcMansion. The move
was 6 months ago and the home sale closed the day before our elections
(by design).
My friend is in HI right now (visiting Kilauea and Waipio) but his
brother lives in the LA area, able to attend to the parents anxiety more
directly. The family home has not been engulfed yet, but if/when it
does, it may actually increase the value of the property to new owner
(the anticipated razing being done on insurance/FEMA's nickle?).... but
he just watched the high school he attended (70s) burn to the ground on TV.
<snark> I think Donald Trump is about to announce that this is the price
of LA and CA being a "Liberal Hellhole" and that if they would just
"rake their forests" these things wouldn't happen. Part of the
Liberal/Chinese hoax about Climate Change and extreme weather? If
Kamala had been elected the fires would be much worse! At least it
wasn't triggered by a Cybertruck loaded with fireworks, (legal)
firearms, and other accelerants blown up by a MAGA supporter. If we
owned Greenland and Canada we could pipe their water (or even
snowpack/glaciers) down to dump on the fires... maybe the Boring
Company is already tunneling under middle America to facilitate
this?</snark>
SimTable is probably looped in with the myriad evacuation/fire-fighting
activities? I'm betting there may be a Pixelated Pile O' Sand on Lena
street in the shape of the LA hills and valleys?
On 1/8/25 5:17 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
I hope everybody is OK in L.A.? Especially Russ ? The news do not
sound good
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/g-s1-41408/pacific-palisades-fire-wind-california
-J.
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