California Wildfires

The Angeles Crest 100-mile ultra was cancelled because of the fires.

I'm confused. You're bitching because a newsworthy item is being showed on the news? My god, what has happened to the world?

Orange wrote:

I'm confused. You're bitching because a newsworthy item is being showed on the news? My god, what has happened to the world?

I believe he is complaining because tax money pays for these "Natural Disasters" even though they were likely to occur and the residents knew this before building the homes and deciding to live their.

Does anyone know if they are required to have extra home insurance like those living on flood plains?

"to live their."

It's "there."

Burn Baby Burn wrote:

Let me give you a few facts to consider.

It snows in the north during the winter. Leaves change colors during the fall. Oh yeah, there have been, are and will be fires in southern Califoria in late summer.

You people know this is going to happen every year. You choose to live there, fine. You deal with your fires and leave us alone. The country shouldn't have to pay for you making a poor choice about home sites. I'm sick of hearing about these f***ing fires every time I turn on the news.

Judging by your post you probably didn't INTEND to turn on the news anyway. Does it really MATTER what you see when you are flicking through the channels to get to your cartoons?

Should we just do away with the police as well? Everyone knows there is crime in the USA... if you choose to live here then the tax payers shouldn't have to pay for your bad choice.

I can't believe I just wasted 2 minutes responding to this crap.

Orange wrote:

I'm confused. You're bitching because a newsworthy item is being showed on the news? My god, what has happened to the world?

It's not newsworthy. It's an annual occurence. Everybody knows there's going to be fires. Who cares?

I agree with you.

Burn Baby Burn wrote:

Orange wrote:

I'm confused. You're bitching because a newsworthy item is being showed on the news? My god, what has happened to the world?

It's not newsworthy. It's an annual occurence. Everybody knows there's going to be fires. Who cares?

You have to be a troll since no one as ignorant as you would know how to use spellcheck.

Should we cut news coverage of rapes, murders, and wars as well? The economy is pretty boring as well.

Now that I think of it... don't the World Series and Super Bowl happen every year as well? Cut coverage of them.

Your stupidity and insensitivity is beyond words. Anyway, the scary thing (for you) is that what goes around does tend to come around.

Yeah, I was signed up for that. I feel like those 180-mile weeks were a waste.

ac100 wrote:

The Angeles Crest 100-mile ultra was cancelled because of the fires.

pennywise de clown wrote:

Yeah, I was signed up for that. I feel like those 180-mile weeks were a waste.

ac100 wrote:

The Angeles Crest 100-mile ultra was cancelled because of the fires.

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Wow!

Let's tell the world we ran 180 mile weeks.

Wow.

What a tool!

Judge and Jury wrote:

Judging by your post you probably didn't INTEND to turn on the news anyway. Does it really MATTER what you see when you are flicking through the channels to get to your cartoons?

Should we just do away with the police as well? Everyone knows there is crime in the USA... if you choose to live here then the tax payers shouldn't have to pay for your bad choice.

I can't believe I just wasted 2 minutes responding to this crap.

your analogy is apples and oranges.

where i live, your homeowner's insurance won't cover flood damage if you live in a flood zone. you have to take out separate flood insurance if you live in a flood zone. why is it different if you move into a wooden tinderbox in southern california? or if you build a multi-million dollar beachfront home on cape hatteras, knowing full well that you have a good chance of getting rammed by a bigass hurricane every year? those residents should have to purchase their own supplemental insurance that assumes the added risk of living where they live.

why should we subsidize the reconstruction of these people's homes when you know god damn well that they're going to be destroyed again very soon by the same damn thing?

Mister Green Jeans wrote:

Orange wrote:

I'm confused. You're bitching because a newsworthy item is being showed on the news? My god, what has happened to the world?

I believe he is complaining because tax money pays for these "Natural Disasters" even though they were likely to occur and the residents knew this before building the homes and deciding to live their.

Does anyone know if they are required to have extra home insurance like those living on flood plains?

No, there is no "extra" insurance but, they would pay more for the protection class they would be in. The highest protection class is a "10" which is basically a home out in the woods with no fire department for miles and a no hydrants in sight.....

Burn Baby Burn wrote:

It's not newsworthy. It's an annual occurence. Everybody knows there's going to be fires. Who cares?

It's not an annual occurrence. Sure there are fires out west every year, but not in the same place. The forests burning now haven't burned in 40 years or more, some of them in 100 years.

By your logic, we should never hear news about hurricanes because those happen every year, and more often in the same places. No news about plane crashes. Those happen. No news about the Mississippi or Missouri flooding. It happens. There's nothing new under the sun.

Fwiw, the Station Fire is the largest fire ever in Los Angeles county.