Maggie's Farm

No one loves dissing the Democrats more than I do. And I would agree that Democrat failures in California, especially Southern California litter the landscape. They have moved money from fire and emergency services to fund special interests and kickbacks to Democrat politicians. Yes, houses could have been saved with more and better qualified firemen and equipment. Yes California's water policies contributed to the size and difficulty fighting this disaster. Yes, the Democrats have done everything wrong that could possibly be dones wrong in their zeal to steal the last taxpayer dollar from the states coffers. But... even if everything was perfect we would still have these fires. The Santa Ana Winds cannot be stopped nor abated. The huge, enormous landscape of hills and valley full of dry brush and grass are the perfect setting for a brush fire that is near impossible to stop. And every year these two key factors are present without regard of what humans do. Then a match, a fire work, an arsonist, anything starts a fire and it becomes a self fulfilling force of nature. It cannot be prevented and it cannot stop until it runs out of fuel and/or wind.

There are things that the government could do to mitigate the damage and to make it easier for fire fighters to deal with the fires and even keep them from destroying entire neighborhoods. But even if every effort is made and everything is done right we will still see these fires cyclically, and we will see massive destruction to homes and property. It is the incredible force of mother nature vs the weak efforts of humans.