Containment levels on wildland fires are a shitcoins. They’re arbitrarily set by the Team managing the incident and are more political than anything else.

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Gotta take the good with the bad. Def a lot of strange people here. Where else can they go?

A great write up by nostr:npub1hzz35pkl67w53lpj2g62zh56g63j5zvz4q3m2nxlsfg5hxcjpwssaynqel , pay particular attention to the parts about fire insurance. The FAIR plan is a Socialized Fire insurance program (Obama care for Fire insurance) by the state of California. The cost of insurance is going to ballon from already nose bleed levels.

The lack of a free market in the insurance industry has made local, targeted fire insurance solutions impossible so everyone is stuck with subpar generalized policies. (everyone has the same shitty coverage mostly regardless of risk)

We’re left with a handful of large companies that are in bed with the State.

A true fascist cartel.

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The people on the ground know what needs to be done and how to get it done. We need local solutions and decisions on environmental issues. Not Blanket decisions pushed by national governments and international NGO’s. If extremist environmentalists want their voices to be heard on an issue they need to present superior arguments at the local level. Not just getting national level policies forced on everyone.

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Hearing from a number of people who have similar anecdotes to my trending note. We have allowed environmental extremists to dictate our environmental policies with zero basis in reality.

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Thanks for sharing, it’s a world wide environmental grift. Insane and evil that these things take priority over human lives. Environmental extremist groups have way too much influence and power.

Yes it’s all about the incentive structures isn’t it. It seems like all the environmental policies are these half baked fear based decisions proposed by environmental extremist groups, that were pushed through and have little or no basis in reality. Taking care of the environment is important but our environmental policies seem to not about that.

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!

A formative book, read it fresh off deployment to Iraq and suddenly it all made sense. By Way of Deception is another good book. Similar genre.

😂 not quite, more like the environmental surveys are out of date and the areas I’m specifically referring to no longer have nesting populations. Fire activity has destroyed much more habitant than logging or land management practices.

Thank you, I’m not holding my breath on people voting any better but we can hope. I’m blessed to live in a rural part of the State where we generally get left alone and can live somewhat free. but the policies are just getting more and more outrageous. We can’t buy gas powered lawnmowers but the Gov and his cronies can fly around on private jets.

It definitely make sense through the lens of the state being run by what amounts to a criminal cartel. I really enjoyed Murray Rothbards writings on the nature of the State.

This seems appropriate for the current situation.

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Our Homeowners insurance is already insanely expensive. I know a number of people who have gotten quotes of $15,000/year for standard 3 bed 2 bath homes. Look up Merced Property & Casualty Company it went bankrupt after the Camp fire and was taken over by the State. Won’t be surprised if something like this happens again soon.

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100%, Sacramento is completely insane. Driving on I-5 through the Central Valley you can see all the dead orchards from the lack of water. Wasn’t like that when I was a kid. A lot of water is also wasted into the ocean to meet fiat and arbitrary environmental regs for the brine shrimp or whatever. There’s definitely a balance and California abandoned that concept long ago.

You won’t be shocked to learn that nearly every major fire that I’ve been on that have burned in to residential neighborhoods (I.E. Camp fire in paradise) the water system has failed. The systems are not designed to have a large percentage of people turn on sprinklers and hoses at the same time in addition to fire apparatus drawing water. This is true across the state.

We will setup portable pumps and tanks near lakes, streams and oceans as fill stations as they’re more reliable sources. Hydrants are typically useful only for smaller fires and in the early phases.

It’s also that the forests are so overgrown now that burns are infeasible in some areas without mechanical treatments first otherwise it will cause 100% tree mortality which is really bad for forest health.

On the prescribed fire front it is gradually changing thanks to the work of a number of scientist and advocates. But the solution is always more Gov programs and oversite never freedom, that’s California for you.

I have not heard of an insurance company denying claims on this basis. They either bend the knee to Sacramento or leave the state.