That’s what I thought
Los Angeles Fires 2025
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What’s the wind forecast looking like? BBC suggesting it’s picking up again. Any way of knowing for how long? Terrible stuff.
Insurance companies CEOs might be well advised to get some personal protection in the coming months….
I use Windy to check for live and forecast weather conditions, they're usually pretty accurate. Seems like monday is going to be a bit more windy with average windspeeds reaching up to 30kts in the Palisades fire region, lower in other parts. Otherwise it looks relatively calm until the mid-week. Wind directions remain rather steadily north-easterly.
Too bad his house survived. It was enjoyable watching him sob & weep on CNN trying to elicit sympathy.
I'm following this person's information. I assume this is more up to date than his previous tweet saying they were $52m overbudget seeing as his tweet in this thread clarifies that they made budget cuts that were sworn in. My apologies if not.
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Insurance companies have some of the best resources to model the impacts of climate change. They are pulling out of CA because of fires, they are all pulling out of Florida because of storms. These arseholes deserve the scrutiny they are getting now, don't get me wrong. But insurance is basically redundant in a world of climate extremes. Insurance requires people to pay continually and hope nothing happens. When things continually happen, insurance systems are literally useless. Again, they deserve all they hate they are getting, but the bigger picture is this is actually telling us the planet is not stable enough for us to live in certain areas any more.
A lot of insurers are shit but I don’t think people always understand a lot of insurance companies desires for making things work either. The London market had companies figuring out ways to insure boats in literal warzones to get grain out of Ukraine. If they’re telling you something’s uninsurable then it either is or the price it would cost in premiums would make the coverage pointless in the first place.
As soon as the reinsurance market pulls out too then it’s all toast anyway as the insurers don’t have capacity to carry the risk, Florida having massive trouble with that. This is where government and mutual schemes really need to step in, like Flood Re & Pool Re in the UK.
He's a tool, but did some great films.
The potential liabilities with so many homes worth millions or even tens of millions must be scarily huge. Governments subsidising or bailing out super rich celebrities' homes would be unpalatable.
He was great as Hades in Hercules.
Who knew he was just playing himself?
Is that a not so subtle dig at the Lapd? The $35M for liability and outside litigation/counsel money that was moved from the Lafd's budget.
Definitely an axe grinder.
Incarcerated fireman get paid $1 and hour to fight all 5 fires. They're not in it for the compensation. I hope they all get a chance at rehabilitation.
Detailed satellite photography of Pasadena and the Pacific Palisades. When you zoom in you just see Street after street razed to the floor.
Pasadena: https://wilg.github.io/la-fire-maps/images/1050010040277300.html (Fire starts in the central mountains and spreads SW)
Palisades: https://wilg.github.io/la-fire-maps/images/1050010040277500.html (Starts in the NE mountains, spreads S and SW)
Entire neighbourhoods just don't exist any more.
Pasadena: https://wilg.github.io/la-fire-maps/images/1050010040277300.html (Fire starts in the central mountains and spreads SW)
Palisades: https://wilg.github.io/la-fire-maps/images/1050010040277500.html (Starts in the NE mountains, spreads S and SW)
Entire neighbourhoods just don't exist any more.
Used that to satisfy my curiosity as to house prices in some of those neighborhoods:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1018-Chautauqua-Blvd-Pacific-Palisades-CA-90272/20545542_zpid/
18.5 Mil for a 7 bedroom new build on a smallish plot in the 2nd row. Mind boggling. (it no longer exists).
On Saturday I happened to be in a nearby neighborhood (50 miles south of LA) that had a bad fire in May 2022 that destroyed 20 homes.
Those replacement home are still not finished. The new structures are up but it looks like it'll be almost 3 years from the fire to the new homes being ready. And that's only 20 homes.
Those replacement home are still not finished. The new structures are up but it looks like it'll be almost 3 years from the fire to the new homes being ready. And that's only 20 homes.
Aye, the scale of what needs to be done is insane.
Most of that 3 years is probably dealing with insurance companies, then the city permitting. Actual construction should take no more than a year. The challenge will be getting reputable builders.
You know that cowboys and shysters will be flocking into LA now to take advantage.
No different I suppose than what happened after big hurricanes back east.
You know that cowboys and shysters will be flocking into LA now to take advantage.
No different I suppose than what happened after big hurricanes back east.
That 18.5 mil with be25 mil this time net year!
Where's Red Adair when you need him?
is it worrying that this is going on in the middle of winter?
Not too much as LA has been in a drought for years & winters can be somewhat dry normally.
Does LA even have winter in the traditional sense? Always looks sunny and dry as feck there. Horrible place.
Never been have you!