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