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The Weather Channel (Oct 2018) Santa Ana winds article - 2025 is nothing new

Jan 8, 2025, 8:46 PM

Article from 2018 (The Weather Channel) provides the basics of the Santa Ana winds.

In a rare article that doesn’t blame the Santa Ana’s on man made global warming, the strength of the winds are reported as being typically in the 30 to 70 MPH range with occasional 100 MPH winds being recorded historically. There is nothing new in 2025 about Santa Ana winds that weren’t known back in 2018. Back in 2018, the Santa Ana winds historical annual behaviors / year-to-year variances were consistent with their previously documented history.

The current fires in LA and surrounding communities are extraordinarily damaging because (1) bad luck that these January Santa Ana’s are at the high MPH side, (2) City of Los Angeles cut the firefighting budget by ~$17M before the 2025 New Year, (3) a common responsible practice of checking the functioning of municipal fire hydrants was neglected (LA’s DEI fire chief Kristine Crowley added DEI hiring practices with emphasis on increasing the numbers of women and LGBTQ+ firefighters as a top priority; guess they deemphasized checking the fire hydrants), (4) State of California’s decades old practice of stopping the clearance of undergrowth brush / fallen limbs in forests because ‘undergrowth is natural in forests and Californians want things to be natural), and (5) despite being aware that LA’s municipal water system loses billions of gallons of water every year due to leaky pipes, valves, and pumping stations in disrepair, neither the State of California nor the County of Los Angeles have the leadership acumen to spend money in boring stuff such as water systems infrastructure maintenance & repair.

Brainwashed leftists in California, in effect, voted for this catastrophe to occur. Of course leftist politicians everywhere and climate fraud crony capitalists will blame it on Exxon, Chevron, MAGA, and Trump because they know that their constituents are fools and live being lied to. They’ll never take responsibility for their own mismanagement, and one wonders if they’ll ever face political consequences for it.

https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/2018-10-15-santa-ana-winds

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I was living out there when Governor Schwarzenegger made budget cuts in the face of a 30 billion dollar that doubled the homeless population in Santa Monica almost overnight. There is no winning attempt to balance the budget out there, but I know he ran deficits. ANd as far as this fire, you could have every fire department in the state involved in it and it would not change anything. No land management s going to prevent when the Sanata annas are blowing 5% humidity at up to 100 mph, and ember could travel 10 miles and light a different area on fire.

I fear this is not going to be good, California has fires of this scale all of the time, but not in a dense area. I had friends in Topanga Canyon, a gorgeous area, but would not want to be there right now. And I wish we could throw the partisan hackery overboard. This si the desert attempting to Reclaim los Angeles, they will run out of water at some point, at least to to the point where they can nto support their current population, and those people will be heading east in the next Decade.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles...

Newsome turned off the fire hydrants...brilliant!!***

They mayor cut $17million from the fire fighters

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CA spent $Billion$ on illegal immigrants alone... citizen's taxes.***

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