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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Dramatic Video - How the LA wildfires unfolded and what’s needed for recovery | BBC News
Dramatic Video - How the LA wildfires unfolded and what’s needed for recovery | BBC News
The entire Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation area - which surrounds Pacific Palisades on three sides, and stretches 30 miles into Ventura County - burned in 2018, taking out 88% of the entire rec area. So anyone who "has never seen the flames this close" is a moron who's only lived there for <5 years. Actor Anthony Hopkins, who's house was destroyed this month, admitted he had almost been burned out in that 2018 fire. This is a documentary of Baby Ducks, to whom yesterday is ancient history, and everything every day is a New Thing. Those exact hills have burned probably 20 times that I can personally recall in my lifetime. It's roughly a once-every-2-3-years phenomenon. And with Santa Ana winds, fire season there runs from January to December. February to April, and sometimes October to January can be the rainy season. It may rain as soon as this next weekend. That's when the hillsides start migrating down to Pacific Coast Highway. Like they've done every year since they cut the highway. Anyone affected by this is quite simply a moron living in denial, for whom suddenly "shit got real".
Boo frickin' hoo.
I repeat, yet again, they should have been dropping napalm and aviation gasoline on that fire, not water and fire retardant. When it's all over, they need to condemn all those properties, buy them back at $1/acre, and convert them to permanent national rec area greenspace, forever.
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The entire Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation area - which surrounds Pacific Palisades on three sides, and stretches 30 miles into Ventura County - burned in 2018, taking out 88% of the entire rec area. So anyone who "has never seen the flames this close" is a moron who's only lived there for <5 years.
Actor Anthony Hopkins, who's house was destroyed this month, admitted he had almost been burned out in that 2018 fire.
This is a documentary of Baby Ducks, to whom yesterday is ancient history, and everything every day is a New Thing.
Those exact hills have burned probably 20 times that I can personally recall in my lifetime. It's roughly a once-every-2-3-years phenomenon.
And with Santa Ana winds, fire season there runs from January to December.
February to April, and sometimes October to January can be the rainy season.
It may rain as soon as this next weekend.
That's when the hillsides start migrating down to Pacific Coast Highway.
Like they've done every year since they cut the highway.
Anyone affected by this is quite simply a moron living in denial, for whom suddenly "shit got real".
Boo frickin' hoo.
I repeat, yet again, they should have been dropping napalm and aviation gasoline on that fire, not water and fire retardant. When it's all over, they need to condemn all those properties, buy them back at $1/acre, and convert them to permanent national rec area greenspace, forever.
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