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Sounds like a bad one.

That makes three of us I feel bad for those who are stuck in that [bleep] and urge you to leave as soon as possible. The rest can sink into the mess they created.

24HCF is in rare form today.

No, actually..... It's same same nonsense as always.

So it was funny all those other times when folks outside of California would say let it burn??

Routing for the destruction of life and property in the US is NEVER funny, at least to me.

But it sounds like a few of you are willing to torch a state and it's residents to the ground if they voted blue. Like I said, classless.

Well Sal whoever you are, you can put your quote where the sun doesn't shine. I'm 81 and a life long resident here and we were lucky to survive last summers fires as it came within a quarter mile of our home. Sent my wife down to our daughters place but I lived in my truck for over a week. So what you are saying is because I live here I deserve to get burned out. I guess it doesn't matter that I served in the armed forces like many here, fought the anti gunners all my life (retired gunsmith), and belong at one time or another every wildlife organization out there and am also a member of the NRA and the CRPA. At my age I would like to fins you and knock you on your frugging ass you pr---. Most of the people in the fire are retired and they mostly vote conservative but in your mind just because they live there they deserve to get burned out. That's not what this country is all about. Again I 'd like to say fugg you.

^^^ this.

Its gonna get worse before it get better in California, thats for sure.


There are lots of things the citizens can do to help the situation, but they wont until it gets bad enough.

A fire is headed towards Malibu, how many campfire members hope it burns? and how many will admit that? something deep inside me will not have as much compassion for a place like Malibu....

Simple human nature if you are honest you wish ill will on your enemy......

I am in the camp of giving Sal a pass.

And Higbean don't be to hard on me.....

I'm sorry.
That was a very well worded and well deserved beat down.
I was wrong to say what I did.
I'm just so frustrated right now and you know all the reasons why.

2 co-workers of mine lost everything. Their daughters, sons and father lost everything.

They are alive and ok.

Pretty funny.......

To bad their trophy mounts weren’t saved.🙄

You've always been pretty reasonable and level headed. Glad to see you just had a temporary lapse of that reasonableness.

Understandably so, given the circumstances.

The simple truth is if you live in the west you are in danger of losing all your possessions to a wildfire, accept it or move. The truly important thing is your life and your loved ones.
Stuff is just stuff and can be replaced.

My remaining friends in Paradise are capable resourceful people and they will be fine, they also have their priority's in order. They evacuated safely. I don't worry about them at this point.

It is sad to think the high school I went to is gone, my childhood home gone, my family's business they built gone...... my family saw the trajectory of California and they left several years ago.
I left 40 yrs ago in pursuit of mt dreams. Much of California's ill will was brought on themselves, fires don't discriminate but ignoring the danger will never serve you well. Growing up in Calif. it seems every year they cried drought, wells would dry up the reservoirs would be down etc....
The foothill canyons filled with brush, trophy homes were built overlooking these brush filled canyons , the city people loved the view....... the logging was shut down, sawmills closed, sawmill towns in despair......

Water was diverted to so-cal , golf courses are watered, suburb lawns are lush green, delta smelt received billions of gallons of water.....

I lay some of this at the foot of misguided liberal politic's, but the bottom line is fire is a constant danger in the west and a wise person plans accordingly!

6,453 homes burned.

260 businesses gone.

90,000 acres.

9 dead so far and according to several LEO buddies, it'll go a bunch higher.

Friends I'd call family and customers I'd call friends have lost everything.

Gavin Newsome can pound sand.

Oh my gosh.

#1 son worked a fire in the NE corner earlier this year.

Sounded like CA .gov has self - regulated falling because of the chance of injury/death to the logger.

Now they contract the work out, to out of state.

Lib mind-set.

Thanks for the update, Hig. Are you safe in Durham?




What does this mean?

Yeah, we're good.

Sharing cocktails and backstraps with my Deputy buddy that lost his place.

Can't believe schits gone in one day.

One day....

A lot of the bad stuff that happens there is self-inflicted...

Good deal Hig glad you are out of the danger zone. Kinda a wake-up call, life can change in a flash.