Like many of you, I have been watching the fires in California move across the landscape. Many of those people are left with nothing. It's heart-rending, and our sympathy goes out to them. Some have no fire insurance because the insurance companies have been canalling coverage in fire-prone locations.
The fire departments are catching hell because budget cuts and political decisions have left them unable to respond to widespread catastrophe. Political decisions from years ago have culminated in dry fire hydrants.
The Santa-Anna winds are entirely predictable. The result of poor forest management policies and low humidity are entirely predictable. Political decisions that result in dry fire hydrants are entirely predictable. It's no wonder that the insurance companies are loath to write fire insurance policies in some areas.
Louisiana has the same type of problem, but rather than fire, our problem is hurricane. Many companies refuse to write policies south of I-10. The risk is too high. Or, they write a policy that covers everyting except hurricane.
The one saving grace for some of those Angelos is that if they have evacuated and have nothing left but the clothes on their backs and the vehicle they evacuated in, they have nothing to go back to. They can go anywhere. Tuscon or Tennessee, Austin or Asheville. They are free to go and start over.
Starting over is the story of America. It's part of our shared experience. I've done it twice, coming out of a bad experience with little more than the clothes on my back. It's do-able.. And, it makes us stronger.
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The problem is the true believers who move to Tuscon or Tennessee, Austin or Asheville to start over but bring their leftist religion with them and work hard to turn their new home into a mirror image of the one they fled.
There's a reason that California is in the dire mess it's in.
A people always gets the government it deserves.
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