in World News How Many Times Have People Been Warned To Leave The State Of California?
by Michael Snyder
Why do so many people insist on living in the state of California? Today, it has the highest population of any U.S. state by a very wide margin. Approximately 39 million people live in California, and Texas is number two on the list with a population of about 30 million. I just don’t get it. Those that live in California have to deal with relentless crime, the worst traffic in the western world, a historic homelessness epidemic, hordes of drug addicts, endless earthquakes, giant landslides, and insane politicians that do some of the stupidest things imaginable. On top of everything else, wildfires have been ripping across the state with alarming frequency, and now we are witnessing a “hurricane of fire” that is unlike anything we have seen before. According to the latest update from Yahoo News, the Palisades Fire is now more than 15,000 acres in size…
According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire, there are four wildfires currently scorching Los Angeles County: the Palisades Fire, at more than 15,800 acres; the Eaton Fire, at 10,600 acres; the Hurst Fire, about 500 acres; and the Woodley Fire, at 30 acres. Officials said the Olivas Fire was burning in Ventura County. All of the fires were 0% contained.
The Palisades Fire is already being called “the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history”. At this point, Accuweather is projecting that the total damage from this cluster of wildfires will exceed 50 billion dollars…
A preliminary estimate of the total damage and economic loss from the cluster of wildfires ravaging Southern California, according to one report, has been put at $52 to $57 billion.
The report was released by AccuWeather on Wednesday, Jan. 8, as the Eaton Fire, Palisades Fire and Woodley Fire continued to burn parts of Los Angeles County, spurring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents and resulting in the deaths of two civilians.
In 2025, our first “billion dollar disaster” has come very early.
Of course we averaged a “billion dollar disaster” about once every two weeks in 2024, and so many of us have become numb to the apocalyptic events that have been hitting our nation so frequently.
Perhaps the damage from the current wildfires wouldn’t have been so bad if Los Angeles County had not decided to send so much of their firefighting equipment to Ukraine…
Hundreds of thousands of residential and commercial locations have been left without power in the LA area as the natural disaster has become so large in proportion that it has captured the nation’s attention. Many have been naturally focused on ‘thoughts and prayers’ for heroic LA and California firefighters, and their hoped-for ability to push back the raging inferno. But several local headlines from prior years make clear that area firefighters could have had more resources to draw from, if significant emergency response supplies and items weren’t sent to Zelensky…
“Los Angeles County fire crews are sending some of their extra equipment to firefighters in Ukraine,” a local March 2022 story reads. “The plane carrying that much-needed surplus equipment, such as hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets, body armor and other personal protective gear, is expected to take off Friday.”
This began in the opening months of the Russian invasion, and appears to have continued at various times over the last couple years, with large expensive items like firetrucks having been shipped oversees as well.