I cannot take this, I really cannot, they just turned my power back on late last night and now it's going dark again today and these unnatural fierce winds are going to be at their worst where I am on a mountain top.
PG&E has not turned off the high voltage wires the really big ones which have been the culprits in all these fires primarily and I live near one to close for comfort. If it is them intentionally letting this happen, and hiring the random arsonists to stoke them like the dozen or so scattered odd fires in my area in the past 24 hours as some have suggested, I don't hold much hope.
I am traumatized, my neighbors and business owners and beyond for miles and miles and miles. We here in California are being screwed with, feels like war against the people.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76130010 50 Years of liberalism is what screwed you....you did all of this to yourselves.....
Just one tiny example;
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I'm a California native. Born and raised. Staunch Constitutionalist. Conservative.
Santa Ana winds are a well known, well documented event in California.
They're as normal as earthquakes.
Fire season is normal in California.
Dry weather is normal in California.
We've pumped water in from the Colorado for as long as I've been alive.
Ever hear of the California aquaduct?
What is different now is there are TOO MANY PEOPLE in California and homes have been built in rural areas that used to be forests, natural enclaves etc.
People love those views but are surprised when fire races up the hills like burning tornados.
My prayers to anyone affected, but
"clearing brush" on a hill will only bring you landslides when it does rain. And nothing is going to stop the dry Santa Anas from blowing in from the desert.
Pack up and be ready to evacuate quickly.
Nothing can save your home if the fire rips through the area but you can sure save your own life.
