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Newsom Reassures Fire Victims He’ll Be Prepared Next Time, Now That He Knows Water Is Useful In Fighting Fires

As wildfires continued to spread destruction across large swathes of California, Governor Gavin Newsom reassured victims of the fires that he'll be more prepared next time now that he knows water is useful in fighting fires.

In a meeting with a crowd of people whose homes, cars, and belongings had been incinerated by the fires, Newsom reiterated that he won't dump all of the state's water into the ocean next time, as it could come in handy battling the blazes.

"I'll be the first to admit — having some water available would have been beneficial," Newsom said. "But now that we've been informed that water is helpful for extinguishing fire, we'll make sure not to put all of it back into the ocean. This time was an unavoidable mistake — we just didn't know. I plead ignorance. Now that we've learned our lesson, next wildfire season should go a bit more smoothly."

Newsom's statement came after several days of intense research into fires and how to put them out, in which his staff discovered that water was the oldest and most effective substance used by human beings to extinguish flames.

At publishing time, Newsom further reassured fire victims that the state would be even better prepared for the next wildfire season by asking the delta smelt fish if California could borrow back some of the water it gave them.
Don’t worry LA.
Biden got. A $700 cheque for ya..

*breaking bews* Biden sends Ukraine another 500 million
zonavar68 · 56-60, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout One of the key outcomes is about CA property insurance, where insurance companies have been for a lot of years now forced to not price premiums using the full risk matrix by legislation. As a result, insurance companies have been abandoning the CA retail home/business insurance market, and a very large number of insured properties would have been significantly under-insured. Quite aside from the water and other known issues.

A side-effect of this is that people will now have to pay drastically increased premiums if they are able to rebuild, meaning a lot of people will be unable to pay to insure their properties meaning they will not be able to get mortgages (since having insurance is a requirement of getting a home loan). I suspect this will make a lot of families leave CA and go to other parts of the USA to take up residence.
@zonavar68 the red tape to rebuild will drive Californians nuts.

15 minute mega city - the WEF
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
He shouldn’t be given a second chance to let things go this way.
“ Next time!?” Sounds like a harbinger of doom! And that may relate to his political aspirations too, doom.
CA has roughly 840 miles of coastline. Hard to imagine they "accidentally" ran out of water to fight a fire.

On another note...gov't vultures are swooping in to buy up expensive coastal property for the cheap.
zonavar68 · 56-60, M
Water is a great heat absorber but water does not do well with EV fires, and I am betting the portion of properties with EV's and solar with home batteries (being that LA is a major city in CA the 'tech capital' state of the USA) is 10+ x higher than the rest of the USA. Having a high prevalence of EV's and solar with home battery systems (primarily lithium-based like EV's) in the community would have made the progression/spread of the fires signficantly worse.

 
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