As we enter a brand new Fire Season here in sunny and Very Dry California, the two reservoirs above Los Angeles are both literally bone dry. Not a drop of water in either one, they were both completely drained shortly before the Pacific Palisades fire started and burned down the 16,000 homes that the water was supposed to be there to save. The reason the mayor gave for draining the water away is patently moronic and plainly invalid, and extremely suspicious to someone looking at land values. Fortunes may be made by opportunists because of this, and I’ll say no more about it. Not my concern.
As heavily populated as the whole Los Angeles basin is now, from the ocean to up and beyond the Hollywood Hills behind L.A., which are heavily forested with very dry and volatile brush, it will only take one idiot with a match and a westerly wind to wipe out a large portion of Southern California because there’s not enough borate powder on the planet to stop a fire that big, and there’s sure no water for it either.
All they have water for is drinking water and water rationing is coming soon as the summer comes on. Water rationing in California is a common occurrence in summertimes, people are told to flush toilets less, are fined for washing their cars in their driveways and watering their lawns.
Dirty cars and dead lawns have been the modest price that So. Californians have had to pay over the years because of the periodic water shortages, but things have changed. Now there’s so very many people living in all those wood houses that burn so brightly that were open land before, that will be cinders without water to put out fires when they start and which is exactly why the Pacific Palisades homes all burned down, all Sixteen Thousand of them.
I have a bad feeling about this year’s fire season.