One wildfire was a complete disaster and handled even worse. The other shows how competent leadership and functioning government/society handle issues.
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
The dog did nothing in the night-time.
That was the curious incident.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze
At the beginning of the year one of the greatest stories in the news was a massive wildfire that decimated an area near our second largest city, Los Angeles. Fires started on January 1st, 2025 in the Altadena and Pacific Palisades areas. The fires were not controlled till the end of the month. In their wake, at least 29 people were killed, over 200, 000 forced to evacuate, over 57, 000 acres, with over 18, 000 homes and other structures destroyed.
During the fire, multiple issues were shown to contribute to the disaster:
- Lack of management of forests. Underbrush had accumulated, no controlled burns were permitted to clear out the tender and kindling, a technique used by American Indians for centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Liberals though they could improve on the process.
- Lack of water to fight the fires. The idiots who have run California into the ground diverted fresh water for the snail darter. Multiple reports surfaced of empty fire hydrants.
- Donating equipment to Ukraine as opposed to keeping it for the taxpayers who paid for it and relied on it to handle their emergencies.
- The mayor of Los Angeles, while her city literally burned, was on a junket in Africa and could not be bothered.
Two non-man caused elements were the drought and the Santa Ana winds. Both have been occurring since the beginning of time and will continue till after man is gone.
Now, a story you likely have not heard of. North of the nation’s forth largest city, Houston, a wildfire started on Wednesday, 3/19/23. By Sunday, it was half contained, and damage was limited to 2, 300 acres burned, with 900 people needing to evacuate and no injuries.
Lessons to be learned from these two incidents? Top of the list, get over this false god of Gaia. Earth is not an entity to be worshipped, it’s one of billions of planets in the universe we live on. We need to exploit its natural resources so mankind can make it to the next generation. Santa Ana winds are not an expression of Earth’s anger but a simple function of the environment. The winds occur naturally, as temperature ebb and flow. We didn’t cause them, we can’t control them, only adjust to them.
Two, forest must be managed. States other then California, top of the list Texas, have issues with drought and high winds. The Lone Star State, like many others that have not been lobotomized by liberals, manage their forests. Clear cutting older woods, controlled burns, creating fire breaks and fuel breaks, vegetation management and planting fire resistant plants that limit the fuel sources for wildfires. Mandating battery-operated car use will not.
The most critical resource man needs from earth, other than air, is water. Liberals swear we must store air to prevent “climate change,” but it’s more useful to store water for droughts. California has dismantled multiple dams recently that stored trillions of gallons of water (and provided clean power) and spent hundreds of billions on a train that will never be built.
Texas, with a growing population, is actually working on increasing its supply of water. From the Houston Chronicle:
Texas lawmakers agree now is the time to invest billions into the state’s water infrastructure.
But a rift is emerging over whether to pump most of the money into costly projects to secure “new” water, like desalination plants or pipelines from other states, or into the more mundane work of repair, like shoring up Houston’s leaky pipes that lose billions of gallons a year.
Proposals in the House and Senate would carve out $1 billion annually from the state’s tax revenue for water supply and infrastructure…
…Texas 2036, a “nonpartisan” think tank, has estimated that Texas will need to spend $154 billion on water infrastructure over the next 50 years. The sum includes $59 billion to access new water supplies and another $95 billion to fix deteriorating drinking water systems and broken wastewater infrastructure.
Investing in securing a most critical requirement for a growing population. Not in taxing and storing air, or spending trillions on boondoggles like a train which will never be build. What does this tell you?
Don’t let “public servants” be in charge of your public services, i.e. political power. Texas, unlike California, has a growing population and is preparing to handle it. The former Golden State is hemorrhaging the productive people and businesses you want, and importing a good hunk of the 3rd World, people illiterate in their own language. And the remaining voters are sending in the least qualified to rule from Sacramento.
After Chevron said it would shutter its largest refinery in CA, Governor Gavin Gruesome Newsome said the state would run it. They can’t keep the lights on or the water running, but they can run an oil refinery. I will pay money to watch that.
Texas knows how to run a functioning state. America, be like Texas, not California.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
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