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He looks like a good boy.

Neat animal, clearly shows traits of both parents.

For the record, once any possible way a fire gets started, in Santa Anna winds above 30+ mph it becomes extremely low odds for containment. Doesn’t help when the winds get above 50 mph. The embers just fly for miles lighting anything combustible and multiplies exponentially.

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we put the same effort into public transportation as we do into mass destruction of the species.

When the moon is full, or almost so. The stupid people are even stupider and every one of them is out and about.

@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:

@Rdp77 said:
Semantics will matter when it comes down to insurance paying out. Many fire policies won’t pay for arson.

Interesting. I wonder if it’s arson by others or policy holder that constitutes a non payout. I think, historically, the later.

It all depends on how the policy is written up. With the way insurance companies across the country have been making up reasons to cancel policies…nothing about the crooked sonsabitches would surprise me.

@dirtdude said:
I feel bad for those that don't have insurance.

All the big companies canceled most of the fire insurance policies a number of months ago. They looked at the previous winter that was super wet which created a bunch of growth, and then the super dry summer to follow it. Then they took a look at the side of those hills, and said, nah.

Maybe some of those actuaries could actually put their powers of evil towards something good and let everybody else know what was going to happen.

@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:
FYI… It’s not a natural disaster when you got **** phucking a$$hole arsonist out there lighting fires on purpose… Which is usually the case in every situation with the exception of when the local power company admitted to having lines down by the winds that ignited the overgrowth of brush that hadn’t been cleared in years.

Semantics. In the end, it's too big to contain and mostly too big to do anything about. My natural disaster terminology is more about scale than cause.

And I know that you disagree about whether or not it could have been mitigated or prevented. Perhaps the scope of it could have been prevented with extraordinary brush maintenance, etc, but once that **** started, it was burning that town to shreds and it wasn't any amount of water or water towers that was going to save all them houses.

I feel sorry for those poor souls.