"Sparking Power Lines" started the LA Fire

[arista]

Edison Power
are 100% Guilty.


Video even showed the spark
Flame extending to the bush


They would turn the power off
if the winds were a bit higher.


Ref: BBC Docu
on BBCnewsHD now, again.

[Crimson Dynamo]

wait

the MSM said it was climate change

did they lie?

[Cherie]

I hope they are well insured :worry:

[arista]

wait

the MSM said it was climate change

did they lie?


They are talking about all the Super Dry
Woodland in LA.
In Winter.


But that did not start the Fire
The Power Line Up High
Sparked and then hitting a hedge below.

[Maru]

Vegetation management, when not done well or not at all, absolutely makes a huge difference in making what would be an easily survivable disaster so much more worse. We have to have lines overhead which makes us vulnerable also. CA might be similar in that respect. It took about a week for us to get back power after a Category 1, which is crazy. We were getting random brown outs and even power loss from light wind, it damaged the compressor on our HVAC system. We have to have battery backup for sensitive items so that the power is guaranteed clean. There was no trimming of trees and vegetation management around sensitive infrastructure when we used to see utility trucks all the time doing this work over the years. Now we see them ALL the time right now because the State went hard against the power companies for not maintaining their areas. People lose their lives during these events, if not from the weather itself, but during "recovery" because they're told a situation is under control when it is not... and in our case, led to people staying in an unsafe home during high temps and some dying from heat stroke because they weren't even considering other options...

[Maru]

I hope they are well insured :worry:

It's becoming more difficult to get affordable insurance where we are, so I can only imagine how difficult it is in a place like CA where the housing is double what it costs here. We've gone up 10-20% every year of recent.

For example, our flood insurance (FEMA-subsidized), which used to be a very gradual increase now costs 60% more than it used to when we first got the policy. Adding to that, it can't be paid monthly as it's a govt backed program, it has to be paid in one lump sum (yearly). If I were to redo the policy now, it would easily be 1.5x that as we're grandfathered in... very tricky