Yeah a lot of the changes wrt housing in California feel insanely short term.
The new policy of letting insurers raise the premiums but forcing them to cover fire prone areas feels like having your cake and eating it too.
https://apnews.com/article/californi...90db06d230f1d1
The issue is obvious, people should not be living in those areas straight up. But its already done
These areas are in Los Angeles proper and have been built up for a century. These aren’t places newly built in the middle of nowhere.
The only feasible solution would have been “reduce the wilderness in Los Angeles to dirt” if your interest were in ensuring there were no wildfires… Of course, then you have mudslides when it rains, because you removed all the foliage.
It’s a side effect of climate change, one that’s being felt in other ways all throughout the world.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Im sure there are other means of stopping mudslides, probably easier to deal with then leaving the wilderness and having these fires.
Seems like I see news about neighbourhoods burning down to fires every year, you'd think people would do more about it. But maybe that's the Dutch in me talking.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
One of the two biggest fires is in Altadena, a location that is decidedly NOT fire-prone wilderness, because it's practically just a suburb of the city of Los Angeles. It's currently burning down because 100mph gusts are blowing embers all over the goddamn place and burning areas that aren't normally at risk of burning, on top of which it's a historically black neighborhood because it's one of the few places in the area that wasn't racially redlined back in the day, so maybe shut the fuck up about blaming the people who lost everything in a historically unprecedented firestorm, okay?
Last edited by DarkTZeratul; 2025-01-12 at 10:16 PM.
There are parts of Los Angeles that feels like wilderness havens in the middle of the city. Canyons & hills covered in greeneries with houses tucked in-between. Our in-laws in Laurel Canyon showed us mountain lion footage captured on their backyard cam. Although, this time the wildfires driven by 100 mph winds actually extended well outside the wild land. Helicopter footage of Malibu below should give people some perspective of the scale of the damage which extends all the way to the coast.
For most of my life I've lived next to the Okefenokee Swamp. About every decade or so we get a pretty hard drought followed by the swamp catching fire. The biggest so far was the one in 2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugaboo_Scrub_Fire
If a freaking swamp can catch fire and burn then anywhere can.
This basically. It sucks for the people there but the insurance market is telling you something, its up to you to listen to it. And if insurance rates would have been allowed to increase as they should have, then maybe less people would have been affected by the wildfires.
Markets are always telling you something. Policymakers can choose to remain indifferent
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Jesus why are you so adamant on being wrong in so many threads?
They're leaving because of exposure, same as companies in Florida. They're leaving because the calculation of, "How when will we have to pay out and how much." is "Very often, and a helluva lot." which is not how insurance companies make their money. They don't like paying claims. Ever.
States can't enact policy that impacts global climate change, my dude.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time." "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."