https://californiaglobe.com/fl/californ ... ce-crisis/Lionel Hutz kirjoitti: To Tammi 09, 2025 2:50 am Cal Firen vuosibudjetti on hiukan yli 4 miljardia. En jaksanut googletella miten se on viime vuosien aikana muuttunut, mutta ainakin vuosille 2022-2024 Gavin Newsom myönsi 1,2 miljardin ylimääräisen lisäavustuksen. Eli ei ihan pelkkiä roposia.
Olisikin oikein mukavaa kuulla/lukea, että miten demokraatit ovat taas tähänkin syyllisiä. No, ehkä joku kertoo. Toivottavasti joku muu kuin qurqo.
Eli:As wildfires tear through Southern California burning down entire neighborhoods, homeowners are reporting that insurance companies recently cancelled their fire insurance.
California’s perfect storm is a mishmash of destructive water policy, environmental policy, and a political insurance crisis.
The Southern California wildfires are devastating because of heavy winds, lack of water, and not enough forest management. As California Congressman Tom McClintock has long said, “Excess timber comes out of the forest in only two ways – it is either carried out or it burns out.”
But how did this happen, even after the devastating 2018 fires in Paradise CA, which killed 85 people and destroyed the entire town?
In 2021 the Globe reported:Newsom’s executive order on day one as governor in 2019 blamed the state’s wildfires on climate change and paid particular attention to “equity” — focusing on areas with high “poverty levels, residents with disabilities, language barriers, residents over 65 or under five years of age, and households without a car.” (Executive Order below)The June 2021 report which exposed that Gov. Gavin Newsom misled the public about his wildfire prevention efforts by 690%, should have obligated applicable state agencies to act immediately.
The fact remains that California’s forests are still a lethal tinderbox as wildfire prevention efforts have not been ramped up to mitigate the now annual wildfire threat to homes, businesses and entire communities. Instead, 2021 is one of the worse fire seasons ever in state history, with wildfires still burning.
The joint CapRadio and NPR investigation unveiled in June 2021, Governor Newsom was found to have overstated the number of areas treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns by 690%, the Globe reported. Governor Newsom claimed that, due to his executive order, 35 of his priority projects had treated over 90,000 acres with wildfire prevention treatments. However, data from the state only showed 11,399 acres treated.
“The data show Cal Fire treated 64,000 acres in 2019, but only 32,000 acres in 2020 and 24,000 acres through Memorial Day this year,” CapRadio and NPR reported, explaining that the governor even “disinvested in wildfire prevention.”
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The Insurance Crisis
California’s insurance crisis is pushing Californians whose homeowners insurance has been cancelled to the California FAIR Plan, which is writing the highest-risk policies in California, but it is woefully underfunded, with only a few billion in assets and several hundred billion in liabilities, former state Senator Ted Gaines reported for the Globe.
“California is and has been a lower-cost state for insurance but that did not accurately reflect the risk insurers faced, as the devastating wildfires of 2017 and 2020 proved,” Gaines said. “Those fires wiped out decades of insurer California profits and shed critical light on what rate adequacy really looks like. The low prices were an artifact of Prop. 103, which is acting as a price control, which always leads to shortages. It is proving a barrier to its stated goal of ensuring insurance is available to all Californians.”
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California’s water crisis
Add to all of this a lack of water in the southern part of the state. Fire fighters reported that there was not enough water pressure in some neighborhoods to fight the fires.
California’s water crisis is created by politicians and state government which allows the unelected, appointed and permanent bureaucrats at the State Water Resources Control Board to fulfill state water policy so politicians’ fingerprints aren’t on it. And, politicians and officials who adhere to radical environmental policies, have been killing off California agriculture lands by denying water, sending 80% of California’s water to the ocean in unimpaired flows for “environmental” purposes, resulting in entire Central Valley towns without water, farms drying up, and threats of rationing to urban water users.
And Gov. Newsom and Democrats have been slow-rolling the already voter approved Sites Reservoir and Temperance Flats Reservoir for water storage – water storage that would greatly help the southern part of the state.
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-Maaston palokatkojen määrää on liioiteltu poliittisista syistä
-Vesivarantojen kasvattamista ollaan viivytelty poliittisista syistä
-Maataloutta on vaikeutettu poliittisista syistä, johtaen lisää kuiviin alueisiin
-Johtuen poliittisesi ohjatusta vakuutushinnoille, osa tullee jäämään ilman korvauksia puuttuvien pääomien vuoksi
-Vakuutuksia on irtisanottu yhtiöiden toimesta liian riskialttiina (hintasääntely)
Muita syitä:
-Palolaitosten rekrytoinneissa on priorisoitu diversiteettiä
-Palomiehistä on pulaa (miksiköhän?)
Riittääkö vai kaivanko lisää?
Seuraava kysymys onkin sitten se, miten Gavin aikoo spinnata tämän. Ilmastonmuutoshan on jo tietenkin mainittu.
