Hard to watch Los Angeles burn, with some 10,000 structures now lost.
Natural disasters always find cities wanting, always disclose a lack of preparation. Because it is always true that more could have been done. And sometimes there is real dereliction.
Still, until recently, the country came together during natural disasters. And surely that is happening. I have to believe it is.
But it is drowned out by conservative media whipping up hate, blaming the catastrophe on DEI.
But that isn't the story here. During the last few years, State Farm and many other insurance carriers have stopped writing homeowner policies in and around Los Angeles, and not because of DEI. But because of the increasing number of wildfires and their prediction of more and more to come. Because they could no longer afford the risk, or at least not at a price the State would approve or people would pay. Same thing in Florida.
The problem is climate change.
January is the wettest month in LA, but not this year, Hasn't rained in months. And the Santa Ana winds blowing through the City with Hurricane force, that is something rare as well.
Funny, that Trump is threatening to buy or steal Greenland because the Arctic ocean is melting, becoming navigable, and is now of strategic importance. Are we allowed to call that climate change?
Everything is so politicized; full of lies.
We will, though, open our hearts soon enough.
The allies didn't fire bomb Dresden during WWII because it was a military target. No, they did so to break the will of the German people.
Los Angeles now looks like Dresden, a smoldering heap of hopelessness. Fire burns more than what can be seen.
The people will leave and never come back. They know, they know as we all know.
They will take the insurance check and run. To "lie down in green pastures".
They will run past the talking heads on cable TV, ranting on and on, telling us what they don’t know, until the end.
As the Santa Ana winds come roaring down the Mountains, washing all the voices out into the ocean, to the horizon, until the sea is joined to the sky.
And it is quiet.
