A Progressive Hellscape
15th January 2025
“February was the wettest month in downtown Los Angeles since 1998. With over 12 inches of rain drenching the city, it was the fourth-wettest February — and the seventh-wettest month overall — in the city’s nearly 150-year recorded history,” said Judson Jones’ report on Los Angeles’ weather on March 2, 2024, in The New York Times. Just under a year later, Los Angeles is on fire and the fire hydrants have run dry from a lack of water.
“In 2014, in the middle of a severe drought that would test California’s complex water storage system like never before, voters told the state to borrow $7.5 billion and use part of it to build projects to stockpile more water. Seven years later, that drought has come and gone, replaced by an even hotter and drier one that is draining the state’s reservoirs at an alarming rate. But none of the more than half-dozen water storage projects scheduled to receive that money have been built,” reported Adam Beam of Associated Press on Aug. 31, 2021. We are now a decade beyond that 2014 vote and the last reservoir built for Los Angeles was completed in 1979.
Los Angeles is a victim of progressive mismanagement — something that for far too long its wealth could cover up. But now, the fires do not care if you are Republican or Democrat, rich or poor, progressive or conservative — they burn, in some cases up to four football fields of land a minute. The reservoir sending water to the fire hydrants is dry. The mountain brush has been unpruned for some time due to environmental sensitivities and lack of manpower.
UPDATE: NPR: It’s Racist ‘Dog-Whistle’ Politics to Criticize DEI for LA Wildfire Response If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.
UPDATE: I Live in Pacific Palisades and I Know Who Caused the Fire
UPDATE: Meet the LA fire looters
UPDATE: Wildfire Woes: California Regulators Halted Palisades Fire Prevention Project to Save Rare Shrub
