3 weeks ago.
3 weeks ago, when Malibu was burning down, I pointed out that LA has had at least 3 wildfires burning within 60 miles of the city center, continuously, for around 6 months.
I quipped that LA probably wouldn’t burn to the ground.
Welp, now we’ve got 2 fires destroying thousands of homes inside the actual proper city limits of LA., and the Eaton fire is either encroaching on or actually chewing through Pasadena and Altadena.
Water pressure is apparently shot, and wind conditions are apparently so bad that flame retardent cannot be delivered en masse by air.
Hope everyone has gas masks and/or hepa filters.
EDIT: Dear god, we’ve got random homeowners filling up firetrucks with water in Altadena, because their homes just randomly happen to have water while the hydrants are all fucked… all while the house next door is burned to the ground, still aflame.
LA may literally be cooked.
EDIT 2:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/los-angeles-wildfire-economic-loss-estimates-top-50-bln-2025-01-08/
The fires are still basically 0% contained, and the estimated damage is already $50 billion dollars.
The cost estimates for Helene, a hurricane that just ravaged multiple entire states, range from $30 to $250 billion.
The Palisades fire is currently advancing south toward the Santa Monica pier.
EDIT 3:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/los-angeles-fires-insurance-california-00197196
State Farm dropped nearly 70 percent of its policies in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood last year, according to a state filing
So yeah, LA county is probably now about as fucked as Florida is in terms of homeowners insurance.
2 Elementary schools have burned down, entire school district of LA USD is closed tomorrow.
… Also, the Hollywood Hills are currently on fire.
EDIT 4:
Yeah holy shit, the West Hollywood Hills… the walk of fame, capitol records, the chinese theatre, everywhere between mulholland drive and hollywood boulevard… basically the center of Hollywood just got a mandatory evacuation zone order.
The fire must have quadrupled in size in the 30 minutes I’ve been watching.
… fuckin…welp.
This could actually burn down the hill, down south, basically into the heart of LA.
EDIT 5:
Its the morning now.
Watching local news. News reporter describes how a woman drove through many blocks of a completely burned down area in the Palisades…
Hoping to buy her morning
milkshakecoffee from Starbucks.The Starbucks is burned to the ground, of course… and there’s no power or water for blocks.
But she still needs her morning
milkshakecoffee.… The treats are gone now lady, this is what we all get for pretending the treats will always be here.
Was listening to the news talk about this fire last night and they mentioned several times that these weren’t just any homes, they were million dollar homes in a very well to do area.
Idk about the periphery but a large part of the area burning is in Malibu where the homes are 7m and up. I used to work out that way sometimes. There was another big fire a few years back around when I was going out there and the local hotels put the rich bastards up free of charge, Gucci and all these designer brands sent them care packages and shit like… they’re fine lol. I feel bad for any apartments on the edges that catch it bc they won’t get any rich important people subsidies
At least there’s some schadenfreude to take the edge off
My aunt lives in the Palisades. I get it. She’s a boomer who got a condo in 1980 for a few hundred grand and has lived there basically her whole adult life.
She’s a shitlib but a well meaning one and my cousin is rad.
I know it’s fun to make some jokes but this one is a little close to home for me.
She’s probably going to lose her home. There’s only like three roads into the Palisades and she just had foot surgery, had to get help from neighbors.
Sorry for the downer but I’m worried.
Apologies.
Many of the jokes we make are in poor taste and sometimes we catch a comrade by mistake. I assure you nobody had folks like your aunt and cousin in mind when thinking, “well at least those fuckers deserve it”
I know. I’m usually black pilled about climate change. So I understand but yeah it’s close family this time. A little reflection on my part that there are human costs to this shit
this one’s hitting pretty close for me too comrade i sincerely hope your people are safe and nothing bad happens to you and yours
They’re all safe. Friends also had to evacuate Pasadena. Seems like everyone is alive. Based on that reddit post about downtown Palisades, I have to assume my aunt’s place is gone. That was only a few blocks from her.
I’ve known multiple people in I guess the past decade come very close to having their homes burn down and it’s generally pretty gut wrenching checking the fire map to see where the edge is at in the mornings.
Yeah my uncle lives in Santa Monica
But he’s a negligent and manipulative narcissist that has pushed all of his immediate family away sooo
I kept wondering aloud what the property value had to do with a story about the area burning to the ground but then remembered I live in Hellworld.
let them eat almonds
It always makes me chuckle when carnists cry about almonds.
Porque no los dos
Critical support for comrade wildfire…?
Welcome to the new normal.
Pro tip: Instead of destroying the planet building mcmansions in burn zones, just move to the city like an adult.
I implore you to look at los Angeles on Google maps and try to not lose your mind.
I have to go there for work a lot, truly a cursed city
Every time I let my guard down on climate change and start to think “hey, maybe things will be alright?” boom something happens to remind me no kiddo y’all fucked.
Rick Caruso critiquing the city cuz his mall burned down is so funny because he totally would have fucked this situation too if he was mayor. Maybe even worse than it already is.
maybe I’m a dumbass kicking outta my coverage here, but is there any reason that all all those coastal communities backing up to the wildland interface don’t have a completely separate fire suppression system that uses sea water pumping stations? I know salt water is gnarly on mechanical systems, but seems like a dry hydrant in fire season is gnarlier?
The salt would obliterate the ecosystems left behind. Everything would struggle to grow. There is a reason we used to salt the earth of our enemies.
I mean its Malibu. nothing grows there anyway, except asphalt and fascists.
This is chaparral erasure
I know salt water is gnarly on mechanical systems, but seems like a dry hydrant in fire season is gnarlier?
lowers the resale value of the property if the earth is salted. /hj
Los Santos on fire!
