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Mine too. It freaking sucks. My last congressman was Ted Liu who is one of the most outspoken liberals in Congress.My congressman will certainly vote for it. He is party first, last, and only.
Mine too. It freaking sucks. My last congressman was Ted Liu who is one of the most outspoken liberals in Congress.My congressman will certainly vote for it. He is party first, last, and only.
And they have cheap flood insurance that is heavily subsidized by the rest of the country.But where is the clause denying deductions for Hurricane damage? Oh, Florida is too close to call.
Right but that's mostly beyond the mountains or far west in thebdesert. If people want to live in the city's orbit for work then those areas are too far.
Oh cool.You do realize that half the people who live here work in the city, right? My neighbor across the street used to work for your company...where you work.
Oh cool.
BTW I don't work there anymore. I moved further south and work at a satellite design/manufacturing firm in Irvine now. We're at the southern limit of LA's orbit. My wife still makes the commute into the city which is possible thanks to the 405.
The New York Times notes that California officials have raised the fire threat level for an entire southern portion of the state to purple/severe, which is the first time they've ever done that. Do the Californians among us have a "go bag" or "bug-out bag" ready? What do you need for wildfires? Spare car keys. A mask. Eye-drops. All of your paperwork; ID, insurance, mortgage. Some cash, maybe a spare credit card if you have an "extra" one that you don't use much. A phone charger and a paper list of phone numbers, in case your phone dies or you lose it (when I was a kid, we all used to memorize our friends' and family's phone numbers, but today..?). A change of clothes and a pair of sneakers. Anyone have experience with that sort of thing? Sometimes you find you want something that you wouldn't have thought of in advance.
I keep a little LED flashlight in my everyday bag. The thing's the size of my index finger and will friggin' blind you if you look straight into it.
When it comes to a 'zombie apocalypse'-style disaster, a meteor or a 1918-type pandemic, I'm probably just screwed.
Hi to all, near and far!
As most of you know, Southern California has many, many large fires burning right now. The largest of these began in the hills just a few miles east of my home. The fire began at St. Thomas Aquinas College, in a canyon north of Santa Paula. It burned west along the hills, spreading into hillside neighborhoods, eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean! We residents were told to prepare to evacuate, so I packed my car and parked it outside of the garage, facing the street. It was a bigger job than I'd expected... the decision-making, prioritizing, etc. Whew! Fortunately, now I can put it all back.
Fire agencies from California, nearby states, and the U.S. government, sent crews and equipment, including many planes and helicopters. The helos were based in a park 2 blocks from my house for 3 days, then moved to Santa Paula Airport as the fire spread east. The friendly folk there made it much easier for them to service the equipment and for the crews to eat and rest.
Some friends lost their homes and another friend's international dog training center was damaged, https://searchdogfoundation.org/ A fire damaged that facility about 15 years ago, and the larger buildings were built to withstand fire. Staff and trainees got themselves and the dogs out very quickly, and all are in hotel rooms. Of course, there will still be recovery work to do.
Though the flames seemed close because of it burned up and over the hills, my neighborhood... downhill and across a freeway... was untouched. We're only dealing with dry, ash-laden air and high winds. I can see blue sky again and some clouds are white. The fire's still burning north and east, through wilderness areas. Many animals, wild and domesticated have lost their lives. Several smaller, but certainly destructive fires are burning in the LA Basin and beyond. In this area, nothing's safe until the winds die down. So this isn't over with yet, but with far-flung friends and relatives asking, I thought I'd send out this blast.
Thanks to the many of you who inquired. We're fine, but are praying for those who have lost so much.
Here's an email from a friend of mine who lives in Ventura:
A much different perspective than I heard from the breathless reporter on CNN, who felt compelled to use the vivid but inaccurate phrase "burned through the city" to describe the fire's march to the sea.
She must have been looking at the first map I found of the burn area. It showed everything north of the 126 and east of the 101 burnt.
There's a Clark Gable movie in which he recites one newspaper's motto: "If you want to sell newspapers today, tell a lie. If you want to sell newspapers tomorrow, tell the truth.
If you went to work for one of the companies at the Mojave Air and Space Port you could live here and she could commute into the city on the 14.
San Andreas
By a mile