Disaster California is on Fire...Again - Potential Reptilian Plot?

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LOS ANGELES — With thick plumes of smoke, towering flames and mass evacuations, a fast-moving wildfire struck one of America’s major cities on Wednesday.

As fires raged out of control across Southern California, a new blaze erupted in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, near iconic landmarks like the U.C.L.A. campus and the Getty Museum, home to old masters paintings and ancient Roman statues.

It burned up to the edges of the 405 freeway, the nation’s busiest highway carrying about 400,000 vehicles a day, where the northbound lanes were closed for much of the day and commuters drove through a shower of ash with flames rising in the horizon.

Forty miles to the northwest, the largest of several fires underway had consumed 90,000 acres by Wednesday night and at least 150 structures — probably many more, fire officials said — and threatened 12,000 others in the city of Ventura and neighboring communities, and was 5 percent contained. Other major fires were burning in the northern San Fernando Valley and the rugged region north of Los Angeles.

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The fires compounded the suffering of what has already been one of the state’s worst fire seasons on record, including the blazes that ravaged the wine country north of San Francisco in October. The new outbreaks have forced nearly 200,000 people in the Los Angeles and Ventura areas to evacuate, officials said, and extremely high winds are likely to make matters worse on Wednesday night and Thursday.

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Fire season usually peaks in October in California, but officials suggested that with climate change, more fires are occurring later in the year.

“These are days that break your heart,” Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles said at a news conference. “These are also days that show the resilience of our city.”

It was a day in which smoke from the fires ringing the region could be spotted from the Santa Monica Pier, the streets of downtown and the beaches of Santa Catalina Island. And in a city where residents live outdoors, many stayed home to avoid the foul air.

By Wednesday evening, the fire in Bel-Air consumed at least 475 acres and a handful of structures, small figures compared with some of the other blazes. But in such a densely populated area, the prospect of warm, dry Santa Ana winds whipping the flames into other neighborhoods had many residents of Los Angeles’ west side preparing for possible evacuation. Officials ordered 700 homes in Bel-Air evacuated.

A gray-brown pall, tinted orange in places, hung across a region that is home to millions of people, and the regional air quality agency warned that the air posed a health hazard in places.

At least four houses burned in hilly Bel-Air, where sprawling villas costing tens of millions of dollars are home to celebrities and other wealthy Angelenos.

Winds could still reach 80 miles per hour, said Chief Ken Pimlott of Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency. “These will be winds where there will be no ability to fight fires,” he said. Wind blowing from the northeast raised fears that the fire could jump the freeway, into the area around the Brentwood neighborhood and where the sprawling Getty sits on a hilltop overlooking the 405.
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(More info in the link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/us/california-fires.html

EDIT: I'll throw in an enjoyable little conspiracy I managed to stumble upon about these fires.

 
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Remember kids, deliberately giving someone AIDS in CA is only a misdemeanor.

Anyone still in that state is too stupid to live anyway.
 
My brother had to evacuate his place today, though it sounds like his area is probably safe after all, which is a relief.

Despite what the article implies, it's not uncommon for southern California to get insanely strong and dry winds from Santa Ana around December. It usually doesn't result in tons of fires like this though.
 
Detrogen said:
Remember kids, deliberately giving someone AIDS in CA is only a misdemeanor.

Anyone still in that state is too stupid to live anyway.
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They'll be too busy raving on Twitter and blaming the fires on Trump's climate change response to move anywhere less fire-scorned.

At least the SJWs can feel joy in the knowledge that the forces of nature are apparently on their side:
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Hell doth noteth liketh thine SJW turdlords, and shit.

Hopefully they'll be able to get these fires under control soon, this is ridiculous.
 
The pictures of towns with the hills behind them completely engulfed in flames are incredibly pretty, and this fucks over Californians. Overall, a great day.
 
Squealer the Animalist said:
They'll be too busy raving on Twitter and blaming the fires on Trump's climate change response to move anywhere less fire-scorned.

At least the SJWs can feel joy in the knowledge that the forces of nature are apparently on their side:
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Apparently God's so angry with Murdoch, he decided to scorch the liberals who lived around him too.
 
These are the same people that claimed Texas and Florida people deserved to die in the hurricanes so
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Calooby said:
Hopefully they'll be able to get these fires under control soon, this is ridiculous.
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That's never going to happen tbh, and not because of policy. Southern California is temperate enough most of the time to have vast stretches of forests, unlike some other dry areas of the American Southwest. So when insanely dry weather comes in from adjacent deserts, it all becomes tinder, and an ember from some dumbass's cigarette can light it all up.

Coconut Gun said:
The pictures of towns with the hills behind them completely engulfed in flames are incredibly pretty
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This one time when I was a kid growing up in socal there was a massive fire in an area far from me, but the winds blew the smoke and ash right into my town. The ambient light was neon orange all day and it rained ash like snow. It was the most surreally beautiful thing I've ever seen, it felt like living on an alien planet.
 
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No need to panic, it's just the blood moon bringing the vengeful spirits of the dead back thanks to Uncle Phil's ever increasing power.
 
Squealer the Animalist said:
They'll be too busy raving on Twitter and blaming the fires on Trump's climate change response to move anywhere less fire-scorned.

At least the SJWs can feel joy in the knowledge that the forces of nature are apparently on their side:
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Weirdly they think it's because of Trump and not because california legalized giving people aids without their knowledge.

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Yaoi Zowie said:
That's never going to happen tbh, and not because of policy. Southern California is temperate enough most of the time to have vast stretches of forests, unlike some other dry areas of the American Southwest. So when insanely dry weather comes in from adjacent deserts, it all becomes tinder, and an ember from some dumbass's cigarette can light it all up.
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Also, wildfires are part of the natural cycle, with a lot of plants being reliant on forest fires to occur. It’s just that people are idiots and build houses without taking that into account.
 
I sorta feel bad for the people who aren't crazy batshit commies (or similar) trapped there, but then part of me also feels they should have taken the hint several dramatic wildfires ago. It seems like there's always a fire over there or something, and that's not counting the fact that California seems to get massive earthquakes once in a while too.
 
The key to living in California is to make sure you are surrounded by a concrete wasteland for miles in every direction
 
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