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I'm not very sympathetic to the there were 100 mph winds not because it's not true but there's been enough modeling
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that we know that these kinds of outlier weather events are happening in greater
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and greater frequency remember that crazy apocalyptic video of that exact same part of Southern California in
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2018 burning to the ground can we just look at that all of us collectively because that was 6 years ago this is not
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like it was a distant memory from a hundred years ago this idea that we were just Lolly gagging around and got caught
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off guard by 100 m hour winds to me is completely not an acceptable answer we knew in 2018 that these things
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could happen we knew across the rest of the United States that these outlier weather events were happening in greater
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and greater frequency if you weren't sure you saw most of the insurance companies try to
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dump Southern California homes fire coverage 3 months before this event happened so all this data was in the
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realm of the knowable and then when you doubleclick and you get into a little bit more of
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the details there's a level of incompetence bordering on criminal negligence here that we need to get to
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the bottom of so I'll just give you a couple of facts in the 1950s the average amount of Timber so
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wood that was harvested in California was around 6 billion board feet per year in the intervening 70 years that
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shrank to about 1.5 billion board feet and so you'd say okay well that's a 75% reduction we must be making a very
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explicit stance on conservation it turns out that that's not entirely true because what it left behind was nearly
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163 Million Dead trees dead like gone and so you would say well those things should have been removed and the problem
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is that then there's this California Environmental Quality act squa hopefully I'm pronouncing this right and a whole
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bunch of these other regulatory policies that limited the ability of local governments and fire management to clear
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these dead trees and vegetation and I think that that's a really big deal and when you double
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click on that here's where you find the real heads scratcher okay multiple bills AB 2330 ab1
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1951 AB 2639 all rejected by the Democrat controlled legislature or worse vetoed
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by Governor Nome that would have Exempted these Wildfire prevention projects from squa and other pering
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issues then there were other bills to try to minimize the risk of fires by burying power lines underground at SB
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103 as an example went nowhere didn't even get to the governor's desk so I'm just a little bit at a loss explain
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these two bodies of data one is everybody can see that these events are happening Southern California lived
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through this exact type of moment just six years ago all the bills that are meant to
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prevent this are blocked or vetoed this is the ultimate expression of negligence and incompetence how did
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these fires start yeah how did they grow out of control and again I think that these winds didn't come out of nowhere
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in the sense that they caught everybody off guard this has happened before that area has gone through this exact moment
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yes there were laws that were proposed they were Ved okay so that even if you could have controlled it then you see
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certain developers like Rick Caruso who were able to protect the buildings that he was responsible for because he took
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proactive and protective measures could those proactive and protective measures not been taken more broadly through LA
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county of course they could have why were they not and here what we're seeing on the screen is Rick Russo's Village
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let me ask a very specific question Pacific much money and we know the answer to this how much money did the
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government of California spend poorly as it turns out on homelessness it was about $21 billion and illegal
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immigrants I don't know what the final numberers there but I suspect in the tens of billions if you think if you
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reappropriated those dollars to these kinds of protective mechanisms in these areas what would the outcome have been
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maybe there still would have been a fire maybe there would have been damage but it's hard for me to believe it would
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have been as bad as it is right now