The Fires are raging with tens of thousands fleeing fro their lives from the inferno.    We should all support the families and the people     It is mid-wintet in Clifornia and the fires are normmally in summer season and not in winter,when cfires start naturally in areas,

So how did the 3 fires raging in three diffferent areas  start?     It is not global warming  since the area daily temperatures are 22 degrees during the day and 11 degrees at night,    It is unlikely that type of situations will effect natural starting of wild fires,   

In the past damaging fires have started in  areas because non-exostent cleaning  up udegrowth in affoested areas and udergrowth under electricity lines and by arsonists - being weirdos anyway.  

It will be interesing to see how the California Govrenment will explains away as to what happened to start the fires in three different reas of he Los Angeles areas the same time.  .     

And Biden said they will rebuild the brned area - he said the same about the Hawai Island fire and then g ave each resdent $750 to rebuilt their losy homes and furnish it - so will h e gave each loser $7 500  - afte all a Democrat vote is More  important than in Hawai.  

Newsom praised Biden for all the promised aid but Biden  did not take any questions and he said in the main he is now a Great grandfather and then forget about the issue of the fire.      Once an idiot always an idiot.

In the emantime as expected the Los Angeles ran out of water to fight the fires after cutting the budget of the  Fire Department in 2024 to provide housing  to the homeless living on the sidewalk - but as per normal nothing was done  about the latter issue anyway nd th funding was used to accomodate illegal migrants,  .   So where is the very thorough  Mayor of Los Angeles is - he is out o the USA and oviously not in a hury to get back to Los Angeles.   The normal  DP attitude - let he bloody idiotic voters suffer -we can lie to them again and the dead on the voters roll will vote for the DP.  

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Here is he real problem in California:-

  Mayor Bass, Governor Newsom, the federal government, they have all failed the people of California. Much of the dry brush all across Southern California has not been cut back for quite some time. They have a science. It's called forestry. You have control burns. You prevent fires like this from happening. The L.A. Fire Department, they are understaffed. They're underfunded.  

Mayor Karen Bass increased, by the way, this year's library budget by nearly $15 million while, simultaneously, cutting the fire department's funding by $17.6 million. That was only a couple of months ago.  

The mayor also recently touted a $400 million handout from the Biden administration, $400 million that they allocated for green environmental efforts at the Port of Los Angeles. On top of that, they spent another two plus billion dollars, and they can't afford to pay firefighters – knowing that wildfires like you're watching on your screen are common. 

Hoever new fires are starting  - but nobody has a clue how rhe fires started  and is keeping  it secret.   So how did the fires start?   Apparently nobody wants to know.    

Incredible how well Cape Town with similar vegetation and much more challenging elevation changes handles the fires. Rarely is there significant property damage….the helicopters are there instantly.

When I still had my home on Kloof Road we had a dinner engagement with old UCT friends on the sea side of the road, we were opposite them on the mountain side.

A fire started sweeping down Lions head and it seemed very threatening. We went to dinner but I told my guards to get me if houses were burning higher up.

Our friends place had beautiful views of the sea and Clifton beaches, but because of the slope no view back towards the mountain. So we spent the whole dinner wondering whether our house was at risk. Smoke could be seen billowing down towards the ocean.

A tense dinner but all was well….they put out the fire before it reached the highest road. Something CT does better than anybody else in the world. 

Hey Moz, I lived in Kloof Street for a year...

Nice area Draad, were you in Sea Point or Bantry Bay?

Unfortunately neither...different Kloof...I lived in the one in Gardens...close to the Labia...a good friend of mine had a real nice flat in Sea Point...can't recal the street...another friend in Beach Road Sea Point...good old days...lazy somer afternoons at La Med...it was fantastic being young and single in Cape Town...not half bad now either...but damn, I had a privileged youth!

Of course,  Kloof goes all the way down on the city side as well. Anybody who grew up in CT was lucky…I watched a lot of the recent test match, in part just to get glimpses of the scenery.

I told my guards ? 

BTW, someone was arrested again a few days back...deliberately setting fires on Table Mountain...Piro-idiot...

Blob the  people next door were held up at knife point during a dinner party and the ladies relieved of their jewelry. A friend round the corner on Nettleton  Road was trapped in his kitchen after a party, locked in a bathroom and escaped down a drain pipe. People over the road had black uniformed security guards crawling on their roof on New Year’s Eve while we were watching drinking Champagne. 

My project spends over a Million Rand a month just to protect infrastructure and the people on site...more than 20% of the budget.

Mozart

The most beuatiful Cape in the world - not so,   It is also the most favored city to live in by foreign millionaires for the paast five years

The most famous of those were Pincess Alice - a grandaughter of Queen Victoria - whose husband was a brother of Queen Mary.  Princess Alice owned a home in Muizenberg where she lived 6 monhs a year,    She was the only member of the Royal Family who spoke Afrikaans - probably helped along by the fact that she was the Aunt of Queen Juliana of the Netherlnds.  The house in Muienberg is now a national museum/

Charles Spencer - the brother of Princess Diana had a house in Constantia - but he had extra-marital affairs and in the end his wife divorced him with Charles  wanting  the divorce to be done in the SA Courts - but not being in luck the presiding judge was a female - Judge Van der Merwe - and unfortunately for him the one  mistress of Charles (a miss Boreign) gave evidence supporting his wife -  Judge Van der Merwe left Charless penniless in SA and she awarded maintenance payments for their 3 Chilfren.   His House in Constantia went to his wife.    He left SA fuming and stating SA is the worst country in the world to live in.      It did not last - 3 years later he bought another House in Constantia and Cape Town was  not the worst place in the world anymore.    Charles two daughters are beuatiful and both married recently - they grew up in SA and sometimes they travel to London - but seems to be more in Cape Town than in London.  But Charles Spencer is not the only millionaire involved - for five years running Cape Town has been declared by foreign millionaires as the best place to live in.    The French and Indians prefer Franschhoek.    But the rest are buying homes in the Clifton where you had a property.

By the way there is another funny story about Charles Spencer was that the Miss Boreign - who was related to one of the formost political families has a brother who bought  small farm in an area called Vermaaklikheid - about  25 kilometers from Riversdale where he lived in virtual isolation.   Vermaklikheid was famous for a restarant serving fresh seafood - for the catch of the day was used.   Every year I came on holiday to Riversdale I would take my parents and my borther and his wife for dinner  at the restaurant concerned.    So who were at the table next to ours in the restaurant on one ocassion  - none other than Charles Spencer and his mistress,    That was les than a week after they announced thattey were separating and it was in the media  all over the show,   It was the same Miss Boreign who found that Charles Spencer cheated on both his wife and her and gave evidence against Charles in Court..

I recently saw comments from a US citizen who raved about Cape Town and the Kruger National Park.    I  recently in Riversdale went to  restaurant next to the N2 Road to get something and met some young American Tourists was there as well,    They were from Ohio and we started talking.   They liked SA a lot and claimed it was so cheap - like the millionairs they liked it vey mch because for them things were so cheap in SA, - all due to the exhnge rate of S1 is worth R18,50   Petrol in SA cost $1,50  per liter  - which I think is a quarterof what petrol cost in California.   

What I am driving at is that.    It is bloody hard to spent 100 000 pound a year - ie R2 150 000 a year in SA on normal living costs - so the high life and expensive places are really the best life for them.

I recently came across a clip where Joe Roagn was saying that he had a guest firefighter on his show in July last year, who said that these fires would happen at some point.

DA 

That firefighte was correct - it is due to maladministration of the California Government and the constant lies attached to the public about issues,   Califrnia is cirsed for having  the worst S tate Government in the USA and they should go.     But the solution has always been poltical - they ahve a reserve of over 6 million dead and missing voters on their voters role and the Government allows for votehavesting after election day and that is when the ead arise to vote for the DP,    In respect of  what is called "vote harvesting" is that Democratic Party agents collect votes from people that did not vote in the eelction and collect votes until they have suffiient votes to elect DP candidates on all levels.    Tht is why they take p to three weeks to count votes iro House Districts,  and the favourite place to get votes from are te cemetaries,   

Amazing  situation - the Court ordered removal of dead and missing  voters from the voters role but the Democrats refuse to comply  with that ruling  by the Court.   Two such House D istrict results took three weeks to be declared and both was won by D emocrat candidates with amjoities less than  1 000 votes.     The Republican lawyers observing  what was happening was amazed about the illegal conduct of he Califonia Government and took both cases to court.

The California Government through maladministration caused the present inferno in California and they shpuld resign.       

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No water in the hydrants ..... madness