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Someone else brought up the rumor that the Cybertruck isn’t legal across the pond.
“I’d love to know if it’s true the Cybertruck isn’t street legal in England,” they wrote.
A few people mentioned Charles Darwin.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/cybertruck-fire-explosion-ford-pinto/
Here is what they mean by "hardening"
"defensible space, using fire-resistant materials like stucco or fiber-cement siding backed with fire-resistant wallboard and wool or ceramic fiber insulation, and adding roll-down shutters that can help keep flames out of a house."
https://www.fastcompany.com/91263189/why-these-houses-survived-the-l-a-fires
As for the embers going from building to building, I think that was a combination of wind and the sheer size of the fire. That's why the fire professionals were saying it wasn't a matter of brush clearance.
We used to have wood shingle roofs. We replaced wood shingle roofs following fires in the 1970's - 1980's. The idea of replacing the rodent screen with one that has a smaller mesh to keep embers out, that came from a retired firefighter on tv who brought a sample to show.
There were some wooden houses. The Palisades was founded in the 1920's and we lost at least one historic building built out of wood (The Will Rogers Ranch house).
Stevie Nicks lives in a historic wooden house; she talked about it during the fire aid concert, how the fire department spent extra time saving it because if it had burned, the rest of the neighborhood would have gone.
Most are built with steel and concrete these days, but I suppose a developer could opt for wood for a single case build -- it would probably require special permits, although the permits are less stringent when replacing a house lost in a natural disaster zone. I don't know.
What I've heard is a lot of people talking about hardening the homes -- making them less vulnerable, but lord knows if the money will be there. A lot of homeowners were underinsured.
She disappoints less often than most, but she's made a few moves that seem off. Demanding perfection is a loser's game tho.
It's funny how he appointed the primary author of 2025 to run his budget, and hired all the other authors as minions, huh?
Cheers to everyone who still thinks Trump wasn't triangulating women to bring on a right wing New World Order!!
And he is a prime example of a wannabe oligarch.
The question is why do people who claim they're about freedom fall for snake oil salesmen with fragile masculinity issues?
RICK CARUSO is a name you need to know if you want to understand the disinfo surrounding the LA wildfires.
He's a billionaire real estate developer who lost his bid to be mayor of Los Angeles to Karen Bass.
He saved his shopping mall in the Palisades by hiring a private fire fighting company, and by buying up a private source of water. His daughter, meanwhile, lost her house.
It took him 3 or 4 seconds after the fire before he began calling up local news stations to blame everything on Bass. It took 4 or 5 seconds for me to figure out he's a source assed loser.
Obama stood up and offered W his seat. W waved him away, and chose not to sit by Trump.
There was a whole ballet that went on at that funeral, none of it looking good for Trump.
'Sunflower' by artist and printmaker Pippa Dyrlaga who creates intricate paper cut artworks
K, so one the things you learn about living in LA is that a white smoke plume means vegetation is burning. Black smoke means a structure fire.
I took a good look at the smoke near me, and it's mostly light.
Hillside, not houses. So far.
Fuck.
sigh
"Granny" who had "the best fucking day ever" trying to hang Mike Pence, was sentnced to 40 hours of community service and pay $500 in restitution.
She was also 45 at the time.
Huh?
