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In case anyone was wondering. I am in one of the most wildfire-proof parts of LA - no brush or forests anywhere near me. I do have an evac plan in place though. Just in case.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can google "Woolsey Fire" and "Camp Fire." (There's also a third fire which forced the LA Zoo to evacuate some parrots and lemurs, but it seems less serious.) All three of these blew up yesterday. All of Malibu and 3/4 of Thousand Oaks has been evacuated. I can't stress too much how huge that is - those are both large areas, not small towns. Paradise, a small town, was completely destroyed.
The majority of the people who were present or lost someone at the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks the day before yesterday had to flee for their lives the next day for a completely unrelated reason. Unrelated, that is, except in the sense that both the regular mass shootings and the scope/frequency of fires are directly caused by political choices and are currently things our government is hellbent on making worse.
Apocalyptic photo of smoke over Malibu
Trump's response to 11 dead (and counting), thousands of homes destroyed, and a quarter of a million people evacuated was to blame California and threaten to withhold federal funding. FUUUUUUUUCK HIM.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can google "Woolsey Fire" and "Camp Fire." (There's also a third fire which forced the LA Zoo to evacuate some parrots and lemurs, but it seems less serious.) All three of these blew up yesterday. All of Malibu and 3/4 of Thousand Oaks has been evacuated. I can't stress too much how huge that is - those are both large areas, not small towns. Paradise, a small town, was completely destroyed.
The majority of the people who were present or lost someone at the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks the day before yesterday had to flee for their lives the next day for a completely unrelated reason. Unrelated, that is, except in the sense that both the regular mass shootings and the scope/frequency of fires are directly caused by political choices and are currently things our government is hellbent on making worse.
Apocalyptic photo of smoke over Malibu
Trump's response to 11 dead (and counting), thousands of homes destroyed, and a quarter of a million people evacuated was to blame California and threaten to withhold federal funding. FUUUUUUUUCK HIM.
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