A miracle has happened. We managed to get to our property and our home, that we were told is gone forever, is still standing. In this hellish landscape “standing” is relative, but smoke and other damage is not like the utter destruction around us. The view from our deck area: pic.twitter.com/JZU2kTJC52
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 10, 2025
January 11, 2025
Miracle in the hellish landscape.
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Karen Piper, a professor at the University of Missouri, posted Tuesday on X:
“James Woods’ house is burning down. It’s karma calling.” Still believe in karma, Karen?
They all ought to be able to get cheap fire insurance now that nothing flammable is nearby.
These people should use more brick, stone and cinder blocks in their construction, as well as metal roofs and rock wool insulation. These homes are kind of dangerous -- striated boards, foam board insulation, asphalt shingles (made out of oil or tar or something!).
So we're going to see new building codes. Since the Democrats are in charge, the new requirements are going to be onerous and deranged. Hopefully, California can push through meaning reforms to their ridiculous water laws.
Obviously, Trump was in real estate and construction. This is something that should interest him. And he should appoint a commission to modernize water rights (California is the only state that recognizes riparian rights and look at the horror that followed).
Newsum(D) goes to daddy mob Crook - and whines that people are saying bad things about him.
"MIS INFORMATION!" - The pretty governor whines.
While The highly evolved build infrastructure, ( see The Swiss) - American Soviet leftist morons are ripping it all out.
Newsum ripped out 4 dams so that his sons can go fishing.
Democrats - you must obey and worship them - but don't expect them be useful. They are detrimental.
Also illegal in CA - Removing dead branches and debris - because that's where creatures might live.
Humans - sucks to be you.
I was watching a youtube video of some runners running and hiking around Mount Blanc. Mount Blanc is the highest mountain in Western Europe & borders 3 countries. It's filled with many glaciers and is a massive water shed for these counties. Anyway - as they ran and hiked and filmed their trek -they remarked on all the amazing dams. The Swiss side had the most.
If you've ever been to Switzerland - the country is an engineering marvel in every direction. Highly evolved!
American Green New Deal Soviet Leftists want us all back to the stone age.
That Santa Ynez reservoir they keep talking about has been bone dry since 2009.
Whoops.
If you think the lunatic lefties in LA that are running the CA Coastal Commissions and other state agencies are ever going to let these victims rebuild regardless of codes or common sense, well, I dont know what to say.
And the Insurance commission just went Even Fuller Soviet by declaring many zip codes surrounding the impacted areas are under a moratorium where insurance companies cannot price premiums in a way to not lose massive amounts of money and cannot cancel policies as they were forced to do in the impacted areas by these same Sovietized CA insurance commissions.
I wonder what will happen to the shareholders of those companies and how full the courts will be with civil litigation.
They have some really stupid building codes in Cali. A timber retaining wall on a steep slope in an area prone to wild fires. Maybe take a minute and analyze what's happened and adjust going forward to prevent or at least mitigate future catastrophes.
People forget that Karma just doesn't punish you for your bad deeds, it also rewards you for your good ones. Karen Piper, however, needs to start looking over her shoulder.
The current wisdom is that these fire were set intentionally in order to loot the homes.
while in drought now - the last 2 years have provided much needed rain and snow to CA.
But don't you dare build a dam to capture any of it. You'll make AOC cry.
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"The difference in leadership between how Florida and California have responded to natural disasters couldn't be clearer over the last year.
DeSantis was constantly finding ways to solve problems. Newsom and company are focused on how they can deflect the blame."
Unfortunately, the kind of incompetency on display from the governor on down is a gift that keeps on giving. Even with the best people in charge, it would obviously take years to rebuild and to fix the problems that enabled the fires to wreak such vast destruction. But when it falls to a bunch of grifters, kooks, and DEI hires to undertake that rebuilding project, who knows how long it could take. You also have to figure that many responsible, caring citizens of the community who might otherwise have stayed and worked to keep their local officials in line are just going to pull up stakes and move somewhere beyond the reach of the lunatics and criminals who run L.A.
I felt the similar mixed emotions after Helene when our first floor walk-out vacation condo on a barrier island beach near Tampa emerged essentially unscathed with extensive damage to the buildings nearby, much less the homes of people in the interior of WNC.
Relief and gratefulness tempered by an "irrational" pang of guilt at your good fortune.
The Reznick family, along with a couple dozen agricultural firms, control 80% of California's water rights. Right now, water is being used on water intensive crops like pistachios and almonds. This is clearly insane. When they lose their water use rights, I wonder if these people can grow olives instead.
So very fitting that her name is Karen. Why are these the loudest females at our colleges and universities?
The political winds can be shifty - they'll change for at least as long as it takes to get the house back up. We'll see. All those Koastal Kommission Karens will get the instruction to take a sabbatical on their rules, because money talks and bullsh*t walks. Where there's a will, there's a way - and where there's a will plus money plus notoriety and connections, it's gonna happen.
The response on the left will be to murder home insurance executives. And deranged females will worship the murderers if they are cute.
Resurfaced Clip of Gavin Newsom Boasting About Removing Water Supplies Goes Viral
The immense lose of tax base will put pressure on local government to reform and rebuild, but if the biggest problems are in Sacramento? Could this end the one party state?
Can eminent domain be applied to water rights?
At about 2:15 on the clip you can see a CNNite (Anderson Cooper?) interviewing Gavin Newsom. Newsom is waving his hands around and talking about local responsibilities while the sky is a ghastly gray-orange color and a building is burning down behind him. It was like the "fiery but peaceful protests" of a few years back, or like "Baghdad Bob" in the 1990s.
Wow. They've done away with fire-breaks because of the migratory patterns of a mouse?
“Not only do I have assigned detectives working on the fires, we are working in collaboration with LA County Fire, LA City Fire, the LAPD, the FBI, and teh ATF.
They are meeting, uh, as we speak, uh…”
—— LA County Sheriff Robert G. Luna
For the left, Climate Change has taken the place of Divine Providence. God no longer brings fire from the heavens to punish us for our sinful ways but rather for our carbon dioxide excesses......Let's hope the good liberals of California remain steadfast in their faith. If they can just cut the Fire Department budget a bit more and double the budget for homeless arsonists, God will be appeased and these awful things will stop happening. There is no better way to forestall Climate Change than by reducing the Fire Dept's budget. Thank God the good people of California can appreciate this and have elected a true visionary like Mayor Bass to make this happen.
Now THAT is a Mighty Mouse!
James Woods ought to lead the recall petition against Newsom and Bass. They both have to go.
@Ralph L, no and no. The people of California who reflexively vote Democrat will continue to do so until the last of them are burned to death or died of thirst or murdered by a criminal out on zero bail by ever-increasing neglect of basic services by their politicians.
What Drago said +++ It takes 5 years minimum to draw building permits for non-coastal homes in that area. CCC just saw their dreams come true in Malibu: no homes between PCH and the ocean.
For EPA mandated "repairs," which actually means covering the reservoir.
Quite a stretch to say any agricultural entities "control" any water rights when the recent history of the Central Valley is how the government has diverted 90% of the water "owned" by rights holders into the ocean for environmental reasons. Yes Wonderful Company (formerly POM Wonderful) owns and manages a lot of farmland but until I see actual evidence I don't believe they control anything approaching 80% of the remaining 10% that California allows to flow to farmers.
We have not even touched on the other water sources for SoCal and NoCal. Internet chinatownisms should be taken with a big grain of salt.
California goes Green, Rainbow, and Diversifies with black through selfie-immolation. #TakesAKnee
California is a first-order irony of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change.
Assume climate change is real*. Is there anything we can do about it? Short answer, no. China and India negate our "best" efforts many fold. Windmills? Nope, not even a net positive AND harms our competitiveness. Solar? Bhwahahaha. Windmills on steroids. CO2 capture? Batteries? All the same, same.
* Let's hope the world is getting warmer (and not through human intervention - religious zealots not withstanding). We are in an inter-glacial period. We sure as hell do NOT want the down hill slope.
According to the California Department of Water Resources: "Agriculture accounts for approximately 40 percent of the state's total water use (with total water use including environmental and urban uses) or approximately 80 percent of all developed water (water that is controlled and managed for a variety of purposes) used in California." 80% of water usage and yet these farms contribute only 2% to the state’s economy and produce worthless crops like alfafa and pistachios. And most of that 2% goes to a handful of oligarchs. This is a problem.
I saw that on Instapundit but later have read that Wretchered is saying he misinterpreted the Google Earth photos because he didn't realize there was a cover over the water.
The only way to fix California is to chain the legislators, the bureaucrats, and the governor to their desks and then burn Sacramento to the ground.
@Spiros Pappas: "with total water use including environmental and urban uses" I wonder what those 'environmental' category uses might be? Would that include things like Delta Smelt species protection maybe - which is precisely the point? You're entitled to your opinion and I don't completely disagree with disliking ginormous corporate farming, or California's entrenched oligarchy, but a consumer might also question just how 'worthless' those named crops are.
The one potentially good opportunity that presents itself to California voters:
Fire can be very cleansing.
Owners of the destroyed houses on the ocean side of the PCH will likely not be allowed to rebuild. The Calf. Coast Commn will make sure of that. And to boot, the CCC will force you to remove all the debris. What a double whammy: in the other LA sections, if you had no insurance, you at least had the land value which could be sold on its own. But for certain PCH houses on which there was no insurance, you'll still have the land but no way to improve it. So you're left with a great place to have a picnic for the day. But zoning won't even allow you to put up a tent.
Com'n, Frank, take it from the top,
That's life, that's what people say
You're riding high in April
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQw_3ZO8ow
*** For Californians, there's always hope. In the next election they can vote in even more Democrats.
two of the so called blm scammer patrice cullers, homes also burned down,
They should upzone all of these burned out areas and institute very strict fire-resistance building codes. The end result would be the near elimination of single family homes in favor of higher density concrete apartment / condos. Given the price of real estate in southern California, they really need to allow for much higher density. Now that all of these wealthy homeowners are no longer there to object, this presents an opportunity to allow for the highest and best use of scarce land.
Karen is now what was once called "Mrs. Grundy", or "the Common Scold".
Well, as I have argued with Green types for years, there is a lot we could do about it: hardening infrastructure, building dams for droughts, zoning for sea level rise. But, as Instapundit often remarks, the party that pretends to care about Global Warming does nothing real to suggest they actually think it is something beyond a money-making scam.
Pacific Palisades is not part of the city of Los Angeles; it is located in Los Angeles County. As a result, LA City Mayor Karen Bass is not the head of the Palisades government. Instead, Pacific Palisades has its own Community Council, which was founded in 1973. The Pacific Palisades Community Council (PPCC) is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization recognized under section 501(c)(3). Sue Kohl serves as the President of the PPCC. The council operates under the oversight of the five-member Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, which is composed entirely of Democratic women. The catastrophe that befell the Community is entirely the fault of the Community Council of Pacific Palisades as a self-governing entity.
Fist notable comment from that meeting, "Hey Moe".
"We managed to get to our property and our home, that we were told is gone forever, is still standing."
The unfortunate thing for Mr. Woods is- the view shown in the video won't change much for a generation.
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